Example sentences of "people [vb past] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I should explain why I believe that Cornwall is a special case and why so many local people argued in these terms . |
| 2 | Plenty of other people got in touch . |
| 3 | That 's why I think people got in debt because they 'd been having things that they could n't afford , I mean er , at one time you was never encouraged to ha er have things , now I mean the minute they see you 're getting low on your , oh have something else , have something else |
| 4 | erm last year we introduced a Home Care charge , based on attendance allowance , and a number of families of elderly people got in touch with me and they 're were obviously particular reasons why the charge could n't be fairly levied to them . |
| 5 | Few people lived in the north the whole time and in the south a large proportion of the permanent residents were slaves . |
| 6 | D. At the time when the population started to increase rapidly , most people lived in small villages and worked on farms . |
| 7 | The exhibition will tell the story of the development of the Castle through the ages , how they were built , how they were used , and how people lived in them . |
| 8 | It 's not like the old days when people lived in villages and knew whose great-great-grandad was a horse thief or whatever . |
| 9 | The young people lived in hope and waited with great expectations . |
| 10 | More than 125 people lived in the two blocks of flats , the Press Trust of India reported . |
| 11 | Combining life-histories with the use of personal documents such as letters and diaries can show how ordinary people lived in the past ( Plummer 1982 ) . |
| 12 | Even in 1911 over three-quarters of the British people lived in urban districts , the proportion being less in Northern Ireland where Belfast remains the only large industrial city . |
| 13 | Organic remains provide much evidence as to how people lived in the past . |
| 14 | But I mean people lived in those days you know I mean , you know where the is do n't you ? |
| 15 | With a little wall round and on this island there used to be a lot of houses on and they used to be all what they call alms hous old people lived in them and that . |
| 16 | How many people lived in the house ? |
| 17 | It had begun to claim a concern for cities as a whole : how they looked , how they functioned and how people lived in them . |
| 18 | The 1851 census revealed that in Britain for the first time more people lived in towns than in the country and that trend continued . |
| 19 | Three people lived in the house — a beautiful girl , an old man , and a young man . |
| 20 | We have known for years that there are many wrecks which could be of historical value , telling us about the way in which vessels were constructed and , from their contents , about how ordinary people lived in times past . |
| 21 | Some 500,000,000 people lived in the 42 LDCs ( 110,000,000 of them in Bangladesh ) , where population growth averaged 2.6 per cent . |
| 22 | The regime 's opponents criticized this as inappropriate for a country where 70 per cent of the people lived in abject poverty and where less than 15 per cent of the 12,000,000 inhabitants were Catholic . |
| 23 | It has been estimated that between 1580 and 1650 London probably absorbed half the national increase of England 's population and that about one in every eight English people lived in London at some stage of their lives ; after 1650 the proportion was as high as one in six . |
| 24 | Few English people lived in towns with more than 10,000 people during the Tudor and Stuart period , apart from those hundreds of thousands who dwelt in the capital city . |
| 25 | As in most provincial towns of the time , the wealthiest families lived in the central area and the poorest people lived in the thickly-populated outskirts . |
| 26 | Half a century later the 1851 census provided clear evidence that an historic turning point had been reached ; the returns showed that for the first time more people lived in towns than in the countryside . |
| 27 | In 1801 a mere twenty-five people lived in the four houses that comprised the settlement of Middlesborough and thirty years later the population stood at only 154 . |
| 28 | By 1841 , when 1,079 people lived in the village , 107 men and boys and just 3 females worked at the trade . |
| 29 | Whatever the position in remoter times , when most people lived in the country , the urbanisation of England in the nineteenth century meant , among other things , that farmland adjacent to what were once small towns became the target of urban development . |
| 30 | In 1980 , more than 46.5 million people lived in England , compared with a little over 5 million in Scotland , 3 million in Wales and 1.7 million in Northern Ireland . |