Example sentences of "[adj] people [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interesting thing is that different people come up with very different ideas . |
| 2 | Average-sized people use up about one calorie a minute while at rest , a little bit less if you 're bigger , ’ says Professor Durnin . |
| 3 | Firth , Hubert and Forge report that some people get on with their mothers-in-law better than their own mothers , but for the most part these relationships are regarded as likely to be tricky : people treat them as an ‘ occupational risk ’ of marriage and regard themselves as ‘ lucky ’ if they work out satisfactorily ( 1970 , pp. 414–15 ) . |
| 4 | As she opened the gate , some people came out of the front door — an elderly couple with Susan behind them . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , some people go off to El Vino 's or the Falstaff . |
| 6 | and he 's expecting some people to come round for his Legos . |
| 7 | And some people do up to two a week . |
| 8 | Alright now I just wonder if it might be worthwhile just some people going back to the classroom now or some stay or ? |
| 9 | It is time some people got out of it . ’ |
| 10 | Some people work up for a lifetime to cross the Channel and then get published in a magazine . |
| 11 | Some people travelled out of the city to outlying towns and villages in search of provisions , plundering the general stores of Kilsyth and Kilmaurs , Bargeddie , Stepps , Drymen and wherever available transport would take them . |
| 12 | He concludes : ‘ So although at first it is also natural for civilized people to condemn out of hand what I had just witnessed as disgraceful heathen bestiality , they , too , if they were honest might come to feel it was at least partly redeemed by the genuine religious conviction on which it is based . ’ |
| 13 | Social service provision for old people grew out of the Poor Law , and welfare departments , with the 1948 National Assistance Act ( Part iii ) laying a responsibility on local authorities to provide residential care for certain categories of old people . |
| 14 | Many old people face up to accepting the necessity for admission to a residential home , on the basis of discussion within the family and advice from professional workers . |
| 15 | According to Jose Herrero , president of the environmental group , Fundacion Cuero y Salado : " When the Honduran people found out about this , there was an outrage never seen before in this country , not even when the contras and US bases were here " . |
| 16 | Twenty-one people came back from abroad with malaria . |
| 17 | British Gas Eastern spokesman Richard Dymond said of the move : ‘ It will not be 280 people going out of the gates . |
| 18 | I think mostly erm , I think that the audits have gone erm , very well actually erm , people are following the procedures and they are at times , they are a little bit slipping up erm , enquiries seem to be an area and filling in the enquiry form properly and making sure that it is copied to the divisional enquiry file erm , a few people fell down on that erm , but in most cases the procedures were followed virtually to a letter . |
| 19 | A few people came back with ‘ O Jesus ! ’ or ‘ Yes , Jesus ! ’ but nobody was ready for talking in tongues or , indeed , listening to people talking in tongues , which I have often thought is much the more taxing of the two options . |
| 20 | There was n't any huge promotion or hype about the whole workwear thing as some people are suggesting , because it was all about a few people picking up on it and then promoting it off their own back . |
| 21 | A few people come up to C and congratulate him on the gig , but as he watches the dancefloor ( the three Clockwork Orange clones are getting down ) , he looks vaguely perplexed . |
| 22 | ‘ So few people dress up for first nights these days … ’ |
| 23 | Sometimes they did n't stop or even bat an eyelid , and I bet there were a few people waking up with painful parts in the morning . |
| 24 | Even now there are a few people waking up in Goroka hospital with only one arm , wishing they had n't got between Mr Cassowary and his girl-friends . " |
| 25 | Gannon was an odd choice although few people picked up on the seemingly obvious fact that he was a rhythm guitarist and not a bass player . |
| 26 | Here and there a few people moved about amongst the chicken coops and the junk : a girl chasing a goose into a pen , a boy flying a kite . |
| 27 | Jessup reported in January 1950 that the dominance of Rhee was unquestioned and few people stood up to him . |
| 28 | So I do n't think there will be a big national impact , it 'll just be the last few people coming in at the tail end . |
| 29 | Announcing an extra 50,000 places on Government training schemes she promised to ‘ do all I can to help unemployed people get back to work ’ . |
| 30 | Of course , unemployment brings great difficulties in its train and no one regrets that more than I. That is why in recent months we have put in place the widest range of measures that we have ever had to help unemployed people get back to work . |