Example sentences of "people who [verb] they " in BNC.

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1 Court archives included much material of interest , but the people who consulted them were almost exclusively clerks who needed to establish points for cases : they were not used for history-making .
2 Maybe not , but he puts words in the mouths of people who wish they were .
3 And the reason why the made marriages were happy ones is because the people who arranged them were mature level-headed people . ’
4 Courses vary a great deal in both their length and the number of people who attend them , and it would clearly be unjustified to assume that a single course on one topic was outweighed by , say , five courses on another if the single course involved fifty teachers in a full day 's attendance each week for a term , while each of the five other courses lasted only a couple of hours and catered for half a dozen teachers .
5 I object er er yes I would like to , I would like to er second the resolutions , this , there is er , there is er a certainly a great deal of concern within the community both those er who live within reach of , of , of , of car boot sale erm er sites in particular the ones that are regular and also the people who attend them and get ripped off , that we need to do something about er bringing er the er , er at to add , add to law into range of , of the people who of , of people who er er of of people who er sell er of people who sell those goods at these at these functions .
6 They listened to people who knew nothing about the game , to people who exploited them , people who taught them the wrong things .
7 ‘ And they are all about the same age and they are all boys who have never been in trouble with the police , but the people who taught them and their family were not exactly surprised at what happened . ’
8 ‘ I got 500 get well cards and I 'm really grateful to the people who sent them .
9 Almost a third ( 29% ) of people who said they enjoyed looking at photographs of the Royal Family said that there were too many pictures of the Royal Family in the press .
10 Detailed cross-tabulations of our main survey results ( not included in Appendix I ) showed that people who said they worried about money fairly often or very often on average had a markedly higher credit commitment than people who said they did not worry about money .
11 Detailed cross-tabulations of our main survey results ( not included in Appendix I ) showed that people who said they worried about money fairly often or very often on average had a markedly higher credit commitment than people who said they did not worry about money .
12 People who said they would n't borrow money were excluded from this study .
13 Three journalists who went to investigate the shooting were abducted at gun point by people who said they were police officers .
14 AE 's sometimes addressed themselves to irate people who said they would never invest in futures , let alone through DPR .
15 Now I know one or two people who said they 've had such terrible headaches
16 but fifty per cent of the people who said they were coming did n't turn up and most of them did n't phone in or anything like that which was a little bit of an upset for the host erm and consequently there was a bit put in
17 No , but if you noticed right , the only people who got them , yeah , were the people who killed people
18 ‘ No more questions , ’ I say to people who ask them .
19 When so regarded the objection will be rephrased : there is no reason to think that people who know they differ in their conceptions of the good but do not know how will reach a compromise , whereas those who also know how will not .
20 People who know they have HIV should visit their doctor regularly , to help them keep as healthy as possible .
21 He and Branson looked at each other with the candour of two people who know they are utterly different , but for one shared resolution .
22 The practical importance of this latter requirement among people who know they disagree about justice is evident .
23 subsequently after about ten flights , and porting over the books , and speaking to people who serviced them during the war years , they discovered that all it needed was a well-placed whack with a hammer on the trailing edge of the aileron .
24 The people who knew them and their families best were never consulted .
25 The people who exploit them can make a lot of money , but those fat cats do n't get their hands dirty
26 Nonetheless the Conservatives ' opposition to Beveridge disillusioned many people who felt they could not be trusted to implement the report , regardless of any promises they might make .
27 There are thousands of employees ( if not millions ) who are indifferent to the people who keep them in jobs .
28 By 1931 all these techniques were routine , and it is a very great pity that the people who developed them can not now be identified .
29 They say that monkeys are often badly treated by people who bring them into the country without really understanding how to care for them .
30 With , of course , all the best stories and features on the programmes and the people who make them … it 'll be even better value than ever .
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