Example sentences of "of people [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drawback is that lots of people use them and that lots and lots of people will want to use it on precisely the night you require to be there . |
| 2 | A lot of people use them , families with young children and elderly people who all need to get to the shops . |
| 3 | It had central heating , a rarity in the experience of people like us who depended on open coal fires . |
| 4 | The servant , a white-coated padder trained for the infrequent appearance of people like us , goes off on the long march to the kitchens . |
| 5 | You do n't have to go to Amsterdam first , but you come to Heathrow , a lot of people assume they have to go to right into London . |
| 6 | But Neill said : ‘ We are not moving because of people pestering us . |
| 7 | A lot of people ask me if my hair is permed but it 's just naturally thick and curly . |
| 8 | Er a lot of people ask me , how are you choose the difference between nine nine nine and the local police station . |
| 9 | ‘ But our record-keeping system generates … information that lets a lot of people ask me how I conduct my business . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ When Andy Saville broke his arm after signing two weeks ago a lot of people thought we would give up , but we pushed the boat out and bought John Thomas . |
| 11 | And erm I mean they were quite they would n't they would n't get rid of a baby , but a lot of people thought they would . |
| 12 | Also the er the erm these Doctor something pills er she advised me to take them because of these pains I had and er but a lot of people thought they wold work wonders you know . |
| 13 | But plenty of people thought it the height of irresponsibility to allocate £11 million to having a fling . |
| 14 | And loads of people thought it was stupid sensible . |
| 15 | I was trying to pretend that there were lots of people loving us there . |
| 16 | ‘ As far as we were concerned those are the sessions which got us excited in the first place and apparently it was how a lot of people discovered us also . ’ |
| 17 | What sort of people wore them ? |
| 18 | In the comedies that expose hypocrisy ( Malvolio in Twelfth Night , Parolles in All 's Well that Ends Weld , we typically see the hypocrite through the eyes of the group of people exposing him — Sir Toby , Maria , and company ; the soldiers trying to make Bertram see his favourite 's falseness . |
| 19 | Yes I just want to explain very quickly for people who do n't know what we 're talking about , Leslie , because a lot of people join us by the minute , er , MPs on the Commons ' Heritage Committee , have said , they think it 's a very good idea , that if you have more than one telly , you should pay twenty pounds for the second one , and who knows , twenty pounds for the third , and twenty pounds extra for the fourth . |
| 20 | ‘ Lots of people prefer it . ’ |
| 21 | As a result , the walls built so far in Scotland have proved inadequate for the number of people using them . |
| 22 | I it seems to be functional , so you know you get like lawyers and farmers and all sorts of people using it . |
| 23 | Not a lot of people played it . |
| 24 | At the time a lot of people felt we were selling out at the bottom , but I have n't heard that accusation recently . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ And a lot of people knew him very well indeed , believe me . ’ |
| 26 | A series of people waylaid her to chat before she was out of the room , and then Emelda came , rather excitable . |
| 27 | There 's a terribly draggy lot of people teaching us . ’ |
| 28 | A number of people told me that the film The Exorcist was positive because ( they thought ) it put the fear of the Devil into people . |
| 29 | I 'm not saying that you know would successfully we drove back millions of people supporting us that would never support us if you go into one particular matter alone or one particular hospital closure alone . |
| 30 | By lodging your slides and information with us , you enable all sorts of people to view them . |