Example sentences of "was [adj] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's so popular that when he was castrated people sent get well cards . ’ |
| 2 | you found at the Country Dancing , it was different people that was at the Country Dancing than what than what it was at the more at the the ordinary dances . |
| 3 | Because no matter what was wrong people always used to run for my mother you know . |
| 4 | He seemed so fiercely shut up in himself that Ruth was afraid people would start seriously meaning it when they called him mad . |
| 5 | He said such ceremonies were popular with tourists and it was likely people would notice the ceremonies were not as spectacular . |
| 6 | Some workers , like Hernandez-Peon ( Hernandez-Peon , Scherrer , and Velasco 1956 ) , began to explore the neural bases of attention , but their approach was tightly linked to the topic of motivation and emotion through the prevailing arousal theory that was gripping people at the time . |
| 7 | Opinion was mobilised around the paradoxical notion that it was Black people who represented a threat to the rule of law in Britain . |
| 8 | It seemed a funny sort of freedom to me when all you saw was poor people working like crazy and getting poorer and rich people not appearing to be doing much of anything except remaining quietly rich |
| 9 | I think it might , cos like does a lot of legal aid , so erm the , you know , legal aid work and he 's quite into it I think , I think he 's quite a decent chappie erm what they were basically saying was poor people wo n't be re erm erm poor people would n't be represented well enough , were n't they ? |
| 10 | The killing occurred as he was welcoming people into the club . |
| 11 | If it was stormy people were too busy looking after the farm and the animals to bother much , but when it was clear we had a nice meal . |
| 12 | This was other people 's washing that she took in ? |
| 13 | Got some fresh air , yes it was very nice cos there was other people doing the same with little children , there was no big children except for |
| 14 | I mean , I was quite happy sitting there being driven around I was other people ! |
| 15 | yes yes , yes I was surprised people I suppose most people have seen those before actually |