Example sentences of "[vb past] to people " in BNC.
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| 1 | Burn shouted to people running from Roddymoor . |
| 2 | He had met Mr George Singleton two years ago in Petticoat Lane , at a stall that sold knick-knacks , bits and pieces , and other oddments that appealed to people with a passion for collecting things , particularly things that had belonged — or might have belonged — to a figure of history . |
| 3 | Arguments about the more intangible effects on ‘ quality ’ of the need to generate large audiences to provide enough advertising revenue , and of the intrusion of the profit motive in general , appealed to people 's broader social and political prejudices . |
| 4 | Quiz programmes , for instance , appealed to people as a means of excitement and escape from worries , an opportunity to rate oneself in comparison with other people and possibly to learn something . |
| 5 | ‘ It really came to people 's attention through Peel . |
| 6 | The poll tax failed completely when it came to people 's ability to pay . |
| 7 | That is not how it seemed to people in Ajdabiya or Kufra . |
| 8 | That 's what always happened to people you knew . |
| 9 | Not only are biblical accounts of supernatural visitations during dreams and dreams foretelling the future repeated without comment , even where ambiguity exists , the authors writing for children insert more accounts of dreams rather than asserting that visitations happened to people who were awake . |
| 10 | Awful things happened to people on the tube . |
| 11 | She knew it was a modern world and that it happened to people all the time and that it was n't such a big deal — medically or culturally . |
| 12 | The footnotes tell you what happened to people , rather than to nations or governments or monarchs . |
| 13 | The talk turned to people she admired . |
| 14 | She talked to people involved in her care , and it was decided that because she was becoming weak , she would be admitted to her local hospital . |
| 15 | He even talked to people without shouting at them . |
| 16 | No , last week you probably would have got the little joining letter with map , but you probably talked to people in the branch who may have been there , or you talked to your manager , or you picked up the phone and said , how do I get here , you may have even got the map out if you were driving , to actually see what junction you came off the motorways and things like that . |
| 17 | London Ambulance Service workers claimed the system crash last October led to people 's deaths , but yesterday 's document said an examination of 26 cases considered by coroners ' courts showed the LAS had not been blamed for a single death . |
| 18 | The two other new jobs went to people who could hardly be described as outsiders , even though they had not been either Founders or members of the Executive Committee . |
| 19 | It was unreasonable of him to expect her to know what it meant to people like Mrs Appleby to receive a visit from an employer . |
| 20 | Obviously the proposer and seconder of this motion do not remember what this scheme meant to people in the forties when it was demeaning and degrading and a great intrusion into their private lives and I do feel Mr Mayor that as it was a a it was demeaning and degrading in the forties it will be no less demeaning and degrading in the nineties . |
| 21 | Also he invented obscure postcards , which he sent to people chosen at random from out of the telephone directory in a deliberate act to question the postmanship that his dada had done … |
| 22 | They listened to people who knew nothing about the game , to people who exploited them , people who taught them the wrong things . |
| 23 | I did a few jobs for you — mostly , I listened to people and passed information along . |
| 24 | He listened to people 's conversation . |
| 25 | Believe it or not , I listened to people like Edith Piaf , Bessie Smith , Judy Garland , Dinah Washington , Nancy Wilson and Tony Bennett . ’ |
| 26 | " I could do well , but I think how I related to people was as important as how well I did at school . |
| 27 | That 's what they did to people after they had died , they laid them out in a bed . |
| 28 | In " fireside chats " over the radio , he spoke to people in their own homes in phrases they could easily understand . |
| 29 | She says I spoke to people last night , everyone is devastated . |
| 30 | That was before my time , of course , but he obviously passed on some of his skills because during , or just after , very wet weather , Sam would go off somewhere and catch lovely brown trout , which he often gave to people who were ill ; and sometimes when he had a sheep to kill , he would send down the head which would make a really tasty and nourishing broth . |