Example sentences of "[vb -s] to people " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He panders to people 's whims , ’ she said pointedly , still looking at Werewolf . |
| 2 | Because they are hidden , it looks to people , if they try to analyse why they are getting upset and uptight , as if the cause for the bad feeling is the overload and the pressure . |
| 3 | It is not so much what happens to people that is important as what they think has happened to them . |
| 4 | I asked her what on earth happens to people who do n't live in a small town where they are known and therefore helped . |
| 5 | What happens to people who get HIV ? |
| 6 | In psychology we use the analogy of mechanical stress , and its consequences , to describe and explain what happens to people when they are subjected to excessive psychological demands . |
| 7 | Darwin 's view was that dreams prevented delirium by allowing trains of ideas to continue in the absence of sensory input — if they were to be suspended in sleep like the voluntary motions , ( which are exerted only by intervals during our waking hours ) an accumulation of sensorial power would follow ; and on our awakening a delirium would supervene , since these ideas caused by sensation would be produced with such energy , that we should mistake the trains of imagination for ideas excited by irritation ; as perpetually happens to people debilitated by fevers on their first wakening ; for in these fevers with debility the general quantity of irritation being diminished , that of sensation is increased . |
| 8 | Prison happens to people of all ages , from all walks of life — there 's no typical prisoner 's wife . ’ |
| 9 | You would n't like what happens to people who try to cheat me ’ |
| 10 | What happens to people 's libido in a group ? |
| 11 | Yes , this , this kind of thing happens to people who 've been in traumatic situations , like erm er prisoner of war camps , severe accidents and stuff like that , and Freud himself of course saw quite a lot of these cases after the First World War . |
| 12 | What happens to people ten years later who leave their small town and go to the big city to find work ? |
| 13 | Something happens to people when they get behind the wheel of a car . |
| 14 | Personality based depression happens to people with poor self-image , or to someone who is heavily dependent on others for emotional support . |
| 15 | Why are hospital patients discharged so quickly and what happens to people who can not afford the expense of convalescent care . |
| 16 | Work something out , its rather extraordinary happens to people of the same age as me |
| 17 | Erm now erm as regards when it happens to people erm , again going back to this B B C Childwatch Survey um of girls sixty percent reported that the first incident happened when they were ten , forty percent of boys reported the first incident occurred when they were under ten so it seems , if you look at the sort of average , averages are quite deceptive in this area but nevertheless if you look at the average um it seems to happen slightly earlier for girls than for boys . |
| 18 | Um one of the things that you sometimes find is that the abuse is characterised is something special , something secret , something that you should n't tell anybody else about because it 's our secret and you know what happens to people who tell secrets ? |
| 19 | I mean that is really , in a sense , what we 're all about at the International Disaster Institute , is to try and carefully work out what happens to people in various parts of the world . |
| 20 | How he copes is clearly going to influence what he says to people . |
| 21 | He is very careful about what he says to people , and makes sure they know exactly what their situation is by the law . |
| 22 | He chats to people in the field , remembers faces , and will pick up on topics discussed in a previous conversation . |
| 23 | Dr Prendergast , of Birmingham Children 's Hospital , said : ‘ Once the epileptic label sticks it often does n't get reviewed and leads to people not being able to do certain jobs or drive . |
| 24 | It was an example of how physically the unique , 4¼-mile race gets to people . |
| 25 | It 's the no visible means of support that gets to people . ’ |
| 26 | What I have described so far applies to people direct from the Indian sub-continent . |
| 27 | The act applies to people aged 40 and over . |
| 28 | And the same thing applies to people who have collections of quite valueless things : baskets , keys , hats or whatever . |
| 29 | It applies to people wheresoever they come from , whether Africa , Asia or eastern Europe . |
| 30 | If we use the term ‘ schizoid ’ in its clinical sense we find it refers to people who have : |