Example sentences of "people [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the people came streaming out of the church . |
| 2 | People began piling out of the house : two daughters-in-law , several small children , some unmarried daughters , two old grandfathers and the new bridegroom . |
| 3 | People began to come back into the block . |
| 4 | People began to walk back towards the house . |
| 5 | Faces turned as he came out and sleepy people started to get up from the low walls and boulders it the side of the road . |
| 6 | I mean it 's basically in , if it 's , if in , the main reason that people brought Share in for the large media restriction of pre |
| 7 | A lot of people did look out at the station , but they saw nothing strange . |
| 8 | What we do need is the co-operation of the residents , and I must say that we are beginning to get the co-operation now and in fact many people did phone in after the last incident when the officers were assaulted , first of all asking for the condition of the officers and showing concern , and secondly giving us information . |
| 9 | Mark Cameron ( 1987 ) felt that the knot symbolized possession by a man , a token of the collective sacred marriage which all young people had to go through as the culmination of their initiation sequence . |
| 10 | ‘ They seemed convinced a whole lot of people had come up from the big city to show off , to be grandees , which was far from the truth . |
| 11 | Many people had switched on after the announcement that Welles 's Mercury Theatre was doing a play . |
| 12 | Statements of what people intended to get out of the policy-making process are generally something that has to be established on the basis of careful examination of the evidence rather than on the basis of assumptions about interests . |
| 13 | They were completely intimidated — but even under that very strict regime there was nothing to compare with the suggestion that if two or more people refused to get up from the dining table they might be liable to a 10-year prison sentence . |