Example sentences of "people [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chancellor Norman Lamont is about to announce a further cut in base rates , but most people fear they are just as likely to go up again in the New Year , according to a new survey . |
| 2 | The vans are used as an intimidatory measure , and also for when people deny they have a TV . |
| 3 | It 's about individual people realising they can do something beyond what they may normally expect to achieve . ’ |
| 4 | It makes people think they 're invincible , they can put a seatbelt on and they 'll be all right . |
| 5 | One reason I was disappointed is because what it says in these minutes , Robert 's people reported they 'd been speaking to the R and Abbey Leisure Service in London that had been considerable interest in the Edinburgh Festival Programme and in everything |
| 6 | As far as the administration is concerned , the debate over what to do next is governed to a large extent by what the American people say they are prepared to sacrifice to force General Noriega to retire or return to the United States to answer drug trafficking charges . |
| 7 | And people say they noticed how tightly O was holding Boy , pulling him closer and closer to him , as if he was clutching at him ; and how he smelt Boy too , taking in big draughts of the air around him , as if he was a man just escaped from drowning holding onto something and pulling the sweet night air down into his lungs in great grateful gulps . |
| 8 | This finding is replicated in figure 13.4 ; overall , 0.215 more young people than old people say they would be prepared to break the law . |
| 9 | While there is no evidence that conventionally grown fruit and vegetables produced under approved conditions are harmful , some people feel happier to subscribe to the organic philosophy , and many people say they prefer the flavour of organic food to that of conventionally grown food . |
| 10 | I 've got a Seymour Duncan Convertible amp as well , and I know people say they 've had trouble with reliability , but I 've never travelled with mine so I would n't know ! |
| 11 | And what really bothers me is when people say they ca n't do anything about it . |
| 12 | ‘ An awful lot of people say they want things done but they are reluctant to stand up and be counted , ’ she said . |
| 13 | People say they become imperceptive ; they spend hours looking for the car keys that were on the table in front of them all the time ; they become preoccupied and inattentive to what other people are saying to them ( ‘ But I told you the Smiths were coming over yesterday . |
| 14 | Interpreting in schools , colleges , courts , meetings and so on is provided by individual arrangement usually with a social worker for the deaf , though in most personal circumstances ( job interviews etc. ) deaf people say they prefer to use a relative or friend ( Kyle and Allsop , 1982b ) . |
| 15 | Nonetheless , elite theorists are reluctant to ascribe interests to people on some kind of ‘ objective ’ basis , independently of what people say they want . |
| 16 | But , you see the thing about it is we have got a take towns for what we make of them you see we could just all sit back , people say they 're bored ! |
| 17 | Well I wonder how many people here , I mean ninety three people say they ha , they th they occasionally do get depressed , I wonder if you ever have taken er , mood controlling drugs such as tranquillizers ? |
| 18 | It 's disgusting at his age , I agree , but old people do it and no young people say they ca n't . |
| 19 | At least two people say they heard him scream . ’ |
| 20 | Some people say they 're so convenient they forget these as well . |
| 21 | Local people say they do n't want it . |
| 22 | People say they were the good old days , but oh I do n't think . |
| 23 | ’ Too many people say they would n't shoplift because they might get caught . |
| 24 | Erm people say they come round they come round with their children |
| 25 | The charts entitled ‘ One-way channels ’ and ‘ Two-way channels show where people say they currently get their information ; the ‘ Supervisors and Grapevines ’ chart compares your department results regarding these two channels with results from a few other departments . |
| 26 | Some people are saying that they 're deadly dangerous and er , we need to wrap up as if you 're going into a nuclear zone , and er , somehow other people say they 're vital , it depends on what sort of mix you use , and how you use it , and where you use it . |
| 27 | And if there 's anything surprising about that results , it 's that nineteen people say they 've never taken any kind of drug ! |
| 28 | The detailed plans were unveiled after a two year study , but local people say they 've been misled , and councillors say it would be an environmental disaster . |
| 29 | Local people say they 're already swamped by visitors to Snowshill Manor , a sixteenth Century house , but the National Trust say their plans are designed to ease overcrowding in the village . |
| 30 | People say they 're sad it 's not used , but when it was used they did n't come . |