Example sentences of "people [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plans to lease timber rights from indigenous peoples for extremely low prices were also criticised . |
| 2 | Personally , from a personal view during those years I was erm going for a neutral stance on the conflict because it did n't help any cause and it only hurt and harmed the peoples of both Iraq and Iran . |
| 3 | This vast geographical area — stretching from China to the Balkans and from India to the northern tip of the Caspian Sea — is inhabited by peoples of infinitely diverse cultural , religious and ethnic origins , whose only common feature ( apart from occupying territories along the old silk route to the East ) seems to be their desire and ability to elevate rug-making from a functional craft to an expressive and deeply satisfying form of art . |
| 4 | Our role in defeating Germany and Japan , and in saving Greece and Turkey from Soviet take-over , undoubtedly gave us an exaggerated view of our capacity to help other peoples with quite different backgrounds . |
| 5 | Those peoples with less elaborate technologies and a narrower range of effective communications and intercourse live much closer to the wild ; for them , it is the antithesis of the mastered , lived-in realm of normal everyday social intercourse . |
| 6 | Erm as er you went on as er as far as referrals were concerned and the objections that were raised you , you apacked really and , and , and went through and overcome those and at the end of the day you , you got the , you got really what you er what you were aiming for that er to get him to , to speak to these people between now and the next appointment so you could er , you could come back . |
| 7 | You 've just not got to put people through too many hoops that they do n't wan na go through . |
| 8 | Or it can be the pleasure of saying things to other people through how you look : about individuality , politics , creativity , aggression , sense of humour , daring . |
| 9 | So you may know , there was n't very many rich people about anyway . |
| 10 | We have facts about a charitable trust using ACE schemes to actually do my members ' jobs , do my members ' jobs in the home help service , do my members ' jobs in the social services — driving people about when they are not insured ; they do n't have PSV and as far as they 're concerned , ‘ so what ? ’ |
| 11 | I mean , you think you give birth and you 're forgotten , I mean your health visitor visits your baby , and then you 've got the baby blues , and we we are trying to do something to get them to help and warn people about when they are pregnant it can happen because it does start then , not after you 've had the baby , it builds up and them wham , it hits you ! |
| 12 | ‘ My work involves challenging people about why they offend . |
| 13 | And talk to our friends about our purchasing techniques and explain to christian people about why we purchase certain things or do n't purchase certain things . |
| 14 | ‘ There are plenty of British Legion people about here today , and you 'll find those who will tell you this is bad , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Now they er you know it 's a bit of a bloody , bloody dowdy operation , I mean er , one of the things I try and talk to people about here |
| 16 | There were a lot of people about everywhere , but no one looked my way twice . |
| 17 | ( Dmitry did n't kill his father but he keeps baring his breast to people about how much he wanted to . ) |
| 18 | ‘ When I talk to people about how best to protect themselves from attack I always tell them that if they can turn that surprise back on to the attacker they have a better chance of making an escape . |
| 19 | ‘ We believe in educating people about how to look after dogs . |
| 20 | I 'll tell the tax people about how you 've been on the fiddle all these years over your freelance earnings and I 've got those photos of you . |
| 21 | Often Parliamentary lists record only one side of the division , some of them contain errors , and because division lists were often published for propaganda purposes , sometimes errors were deliberately introduced in order to mislead the people about how a particular member had voted . |
| 22 | There 's a few people about now . |
| 23 | There were a few people about now : walking their dogs , jogging in tracksuits along the firm sand out by the water 's edge . |
| 24 | It is in this sense , of having an abnormal number of our normal needs unmet , that I think it right to speak of disabled people as not being normal . |
| 25 | Radar and sonar were still highly classified developments in military technology , and the notion that bats might do anything even remotely analogous to the latest triumphs of electronic engineering struck most people as not only implausible but emotionally repugnant . |
| 26 | Such mutual respect , of course , is one of the fundamental elements of high morale , dependability and efficiency , and I count myself fortunate to have been associated with such people for over a quarter of a century . |
| 27 | She has enjoyed working with older people for nearly 20 years as a social worker , a researcher and most recently as Director of Age Concern Scotland . |
| 28 | Doctors at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford have only just started to keep a record , but so far they treated six people for barfly injuries . |
| 29 | For one of the reasons given by people for not complaining is that it is a waste of time to do so . |
| 30 | Clive James suggested awarding government grants to people for not writing novels in a world already saturated with books . |