Example sentences of "people [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Ellie Lane , the Essex ‘ funny girl ’ , says ‘ it 's getting harder and harder to make people laugh ’ ; |
| 2 | I 'm only in this business to make people laugh . |
| 3 | You make people laugh . |
| 4 | We are all in the business of making people laugh — and in Carry On films there is only one way to do that — good old slapstick humour . ’ |
| 5 | He knows how to make people laugh , without whipping them into such a state of excitement that they feel a keen sense of anti-climax when the host of the show comes on . |
| 6 | But if you can produce 28 seconds that actually exists as a piece of entertainment and makes people laugh , nobody will ever think the worse of you for it . |
| 7 | He was a funny man and good at making people laugh . |
| 8 | A style of drama full of ridiculous situations intended to make people laugh , sometimes used as a medium for satire . |
| 9 | Emmie thought she had never heard people laugh so much or sound so happy . |
| 10 | JACK Dee had tried for a while to make people laugh with a totally put-on chirpy delivery . |
| 11 | ‘ It was so wonderful making people laugh , I did n't even feel the thrashing . |
| 12 | Little more than twenty-four hours later , he was in hospital for an operation on damaged arteries in his legs , the price of making people laugh . |
| 13 | Are you behaving like that to make people laugh or because it is what you honestly believe to be right . " |
| 14 | I suppose he did a great service by making people laugh with those outrageous characters rather than at them . ’ |
| 15 | Ken added : ‘ Marty 's angle was not to be afraid of anti-feeling , because we 're making people laugh and in laughter we 're making a kind of sanity . |
| 16 | Drama that makes people laugh . |
| 17 | She said : ‘ I like to make people laugh and always wanted to be able to do something for elderly and lonely people . ’ |
| 18 | Think how often , say in a meeting or discussion , you have a point of view that you want to persuade other people to agree with or adopt . |
| 19 | And again it helps if one can get a group of other people to agree with you . |
| 20 | He felt that public relations was the engineering of human consent — getting people to agree to an idea , product , concept or what have you . |
| 21 | I do n't expect most people to agree with these figures . |
| 22 | After being swamped by people demanding that we give them the freebie SEAL course , we have , after long and difficult nights of deliberation , come to a decision . |
| 23 | There was almost a collapse of the cryonic systems when the vaults were besieged by people demanding to reclaim parents and presidents . |
| 24 | A demonstration in Yaoundé on May 4 by a reported 5,000 people demanding a democratic system apparently passed off peacefully . |
| 25 | Peter Wakeham is leading a group of more than a hundred people demanding an inquiry . |
| 26 | This indeed is one of the most widespread ways in which people declare and affirm their identity — by saying who they are not . |
| 27 | The festival film to end them all , nonstop music and a million people stoned out of their skulls . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Closely connected with this is the idea that sexual activity and love are concerned with youth , and that it is somehow undesirable , or even an object of mild amusement , for ageing people to indulge . |
| 30 | As long as there were people to greet , families to enquire about , matters to discuss she was happy . |