Example sentences of "people [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was obviously desirable for such stores to have a trusting public image which invited people to indulge freely in the convenience of spending money without actually paying it out . |
| 2 | Why was it when English people met again after an absence , they talked so determinedly about the weather ? |
| 3 | IN SEPTEMBER , a group of 50 people met together for a week of prayer at Our Lady of Good Counsel , Leeds . |
| 4 | Even in the earlier period , however , it was difficult to hold back the commercial urges of line managers , though some marketing effort was initially canalised into the job of discouraging the sale of electric fires or persuading people to go carefully in the use of electricity at peak times . |
| 5 | Andrew Carnegie was one of those enlightened people who provided libraries for rural areas on the mainland and certainly not the only one ; sometimes people got together under the leadership of the minister or the doctor and formed their own society . |
| 6 | The 1990 Dinner was held on Saturday 22 September when 28 people got together in the Reception bar of the Private Dining Room suite in University House before proceeding to enjoy an excellent meal in the pleasant setting of PDR4 . |
| 7 | These people cared deeply about the success of the venture because they cared about their own livelihoods , the future of their children and the very breath of their dying community . |
| 8 | For the quarter of a million people expected here over the weekend , it should be quite a show . |
| 9 | Many of these people lived largely without the agent of money , and survived by bartering what excess produce they had . |
| 10 | The people lived both on the edge of the world and on the edge of the battle . |
| 11 | On March 3 several tens of thousands of people demonstrated peacefully in the capital , Bamako , in support of multiparty politics and an end to " rule by violence " . |
| 12 | People scrambled away from the centre of the Operations Room in panic . |
| 13 | The Community Interpreter Project was set up in 1983 to develop and pilot a practical model which would enable people to communicate effectively within the context of the main public services in a multi-lingual Britain . |
| 14 | That Sunday , people shouted angrily in the streets . |
| 15 | ‘ There were people climbing all over the graves with cameras . |
| 16 | And er the amount of money that 's in the appeal fund , whereas it shows a great feeling of warmth from the general public , I think I do n't I mean there 's people dying all over the world , even at home here in Orkney , there 's people that dying , they do n't receive any great compensation for that . |
| 17 | Coun Robinson said : ‘ We have had complaints about the noise and disturbance from young people driving wildly around the car park sometimes as late as 3 am . |
| 18 | ‘ Flaming June ’ , people muttered bitterly amid the cascades of rain , and the thought of the poor men who must be waiting to set out across the choppy Channel in their small boats to fight a bloody battle on the other side made me feel cold and sick . |
| 19 | ‘ You should know that when people speak loudly on the phone their voice can often be heard by others in the room . |
| 20 | ‘ In the space of two years , we moved from a domestic merchant bank with 500 people , all of whom knew each other very well , to an organisation with nearly 3,000 people spread all over the world , ’ says Mr Reed . |
| 21 | Why do so many people breed just for the hell of it ? |
| 22 | Police have appealed to anyone who may have seen people acting suspiciously in the area of the hospital to contact them . |
| 23 | Police have appealed for anyone in the area who may have seen people acting suspiciously near the bank to contact them on Darlington . |
| 24 | However , what I had hoped for did happen ; people came away from the workshop with a desire to see how they could use the experience and the insight they had gained within their own establishments . |
| 25 | Some people lingered longer in the memory than others . |
| 26 | Warnings were issued to 5,000 people living downwind of the fire to stay indoors and keep windows closed . |
| 27 | Incitement to murder , by people living nominally under a country 's law , should automatically lead to arrest . |
| 28 | This is probably because only the strangest experiences are remembered by people waking normally after a night 's sleep , and the more everyday the dream content , the less memorable it is . |
| 29 | Most people vary enormously in the reserves that they have available , so that the things that floor them at the end of term may be the same small irritations that they sailed through at the beginning . |
| 30 | But people complain sometimes about the flushes , but I was glad when I had a flush because I felt better after having flushes ! |