Example sentences of "people have [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was not just a reason to indulge in nostalgia ; though the tradition was basically the same as it had always been , except that in the past the people had walked further in the processions . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | Many people had switched on after the announcement that Welles 's Mercury Theatre was doing a play . |
| 5 | ‘ What 's it to thee ? ’ someone shouted , but already a few people had backed away from the horse , moving to a safer distance . |
| 6 | The fact that there are fewer young workers could mean that people have to retire later in the future . |
| 7 | They may not qualify for the names ‘ colonisers ’ or ‘ pioneers ’ , but great numbers of people have gone abroad from the county during this century . |
| 8 | But look a little more deeply and you will see that something else has happened too ; if a number of people have gone down with the cold , does not it mean that a number of people have not gone down with the cold ? |
| 9 | Well , we 'll listen to what people have to say tomorrow on the phone in . |
| 10 | Many times more people have moved out of the big state hospitals over a larger number of years and a great deal more research on outcomes has been done . |
| 11 | More than 4.6m people have contracted out of the state scheme into personal pension plans since their introduction in 1986 . |
| 12 | These people have crawled out of the sewers . |
| 13 | Well , I give a vote that erm , because certainly not everybody 's aware that er , this er Service director is merely a way to get round to payments that different people have opt out of the social chapter . |
| 14 | People have written fondly about The Fifties : |
| 15 | Places differ not simply because their physical environments differ but also because , for a variety of reasons , people have responded differently to the opportunities and constraints that those environments offer . |
| 16 | A thousand people have come here in the last year and another thousand are expected in the next year . |
| 17 | ‘ And six thousand people have come out to the meetings . ’ |
| 18 | I mean , I know that a lot of the calls they get are practical , people have come back from the Gulf with no money , no home , I mean they 've lived there for years and years and years , without the family network sometimes to keep them going , or friends , friends , they 've , they 've lost all of their , and it 's , it 's not easy . |
| 19 | Many people have worked hard over the last two decades to develop relationships between education and business — the expertise which this represents needs to be respected and harnessed . |
| 20 | More than 120 people have signed up for the six courses and a regular programme of similar events is now likely to be organised at the Wivenhoe Park campus , near Colchester . |
| 21 | Already 18 people have signed up for the competition and it is hoped it will be a fitting tribute to one of the club 's favourite performers . |
| 22 | Already 18 people have signed up for the competition and it is hoped it will be a fitting tribute to one of the club 's favourite performers . |
| 23 | . All these people have tried out for the new series . |
| 24 | People have pulled out of the show with just hours to go , and then it 's not a question of who would go best with the other guests , it 's a case of ‘ Who 's free ? ’ |
| 25 | The analysis concludes that 1 million households and more than 2½ million people have dropped out of the legal aid net in the two years since Lord Mackay of Clashfern became Lord Chancellor . |
| 26 | ‘ Look , it so happens that a number of people have dropped out of the scheme for one reason or another , and there 's now a place for you at the end of the team . |
| 27 | One problem is that as younger , fitter people have dropped out of the pool , premiums have had to rise dramatically . |