Example sentences of "[adj] people i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean the English people I 've met here ( and one or two Scots ) . |
| 2 | ‘ I do it regularly , about all the interesting people I meet . ’ |
| 3 | He 's one of the most generous people I 've ever met . |
| 4 | environment with other Scottish people I can do it |
| 5 | ‘ I think your family and your friends are the most charming people I 've met in ages ! |
| 6 | I stand here , I am not a perfect minister because I am over forty I 've got children that are not too awkward but erm , could be awkward and , I have n't a spouse ah and ah I stand here saying that I 'm not good at everything I 'm good with young people , I 'm not o only good with old people I try to do my best . |
| 7 | I learned to garden from my mother 's head gardener , Mr Buffett , who was one of the most organised people I have ever known . |
| 8 | So the racing people I know , I recognize everywhere . |
| 9 | The straight people I was friendly with were quite realistic about my gayness , even intrigued by it and grew to know what I did and who I met . |
| 10 | You are so right about Robin — he will probably always be one of the most special kind and thoughtful people I 'm privileged to have known . |
| 11 | This in fact seems to be very much the situation which anthropologists have found in pre-capitalist systems , and this was the case with the Malagasy people I studied . |
| 12 | Just ordinary people I do it |
| 13 | I do n't know who they are — famous men , dead and living , who 've fought for the right things and created and painted in the right way , and unfamous people I know who do n't lie about things , who try not to be lazy , who try to be human and intelligent . |
| 14 | Life in the rainforest is brutish and short , and most of the Kayan people I spoke to consider themselves a good deal better off than their forefathers — thanks to the logging . |
| 15 | I can think now of two elderly people I know , who never , ever got over a burglary . |
| 16 | It was about elderly people I just wanted to be properly cared for . |
| 17 | ‘ I have discovered that the black people I have been working with in the inner cities proposed me for the award . |
| 18 | They 're professional people I mean they do n't really explain to you what they 're doing . |
| 19 | Professional designers will come out with all sorts of advice but as this is intended for normal people I 'll suggest that you just go with what looks right to you . |
| 20 | There 's a lot of poorly people I 'm afraid . |
| 21 | Oh I I think , think that they differed in as far as they were a tiny little bit more ambitious and wanted a sort of erm a a little bit better life , but everybody even in the terraced houses they were all very respectable people , very respectable people I mean er I |
| 22 | I mean they 'll do nothing about sex , they 'll just do all about morals , wo n't they , and decent , respectable people I 'd say and biology 's just cold and clinical . |
| 23 | As a Ballyclare supporter I was not sure which fans to join in the final but thankfully I went to the South stand and found myself in the middle of the most friendly people I have ever met in my whole life . |
| 24 | I could do the same thing with rich people I suppose , I could paint yuppies . |
| 25 | I could do the same thing with rich people I suppose , I could paint yuppies . |
| 26 | Sorry people I stand corrected , the game is on Tuesday night , I 'll still be there though . |
| 27 | I could not accept this terrible punishment , and wrote to all the important people I could think of , asking for mercy for Magwitch . |
| 28 | Mark : I ca n't say that to the same extent , but where I live at the moment I know a lot of people within five minutes ' walk and there are ten or fifteen gay people I know who live locally ; there are people I can visit without any great effort whatsoever , whom I 'm likely to meet in the shops . |
| 29 | He was not liked in his father 's wartime entourage : ‘ I thought Randolph was one of the most objectionable people I had ever met , ’ wrote Sir John Colville , one of Winston 's private secretaries . |
| 30 | In order to produce this chapter , I contacted various people I knew had produced interesting and novel food in the past . |