Example sentences of "people [verb] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is increasing pressure on people to plan for their own old age , possibly using their assets to purchase suitable accommodation and personal care . |
| 2 | THERE are many people to thank for their help — those who contributed goods or money towards the trip ; those who assisted us during our journey ( there are a lot of good people out there ! ) ; |
| 3 | So an urgent appeal is being launched in Britain and in other countries asking people to search for their old slide-rules in attics , in schools and in lab store rooms . |
| 4 | ‘ We will have to get other people to write for us because it 's going to be more than 100 pages . ’ |
| 5 | Remove restrictions on insurers and let people buy for themselves inexpensive insurance . |
| 6 | But erm I think I had lots of people praying for me back here because I did n't have any problem with them and I was the only one who did n't . |
| 7 | Then he asks the community , because although they might not all have seemed to have been involved there 's been a lot of people praying for you and |
| 8 | Placid and peaceful ponies are usually what people want for their children , and with good reason . |
| 9 | Already they have forced those people to work for them . |
| 10 | The project manager may have problems in motivating people to work for him . |
| 11 | He argued that society is at bottom a system of organization for producing the goods on which people depend for their life . |
| 12 | I for one think that sort of thing , to people searching for something , makes a lot of impact . |
| 13 | Never say you do not know why you picked certain subjects , or that other people decided for you , as this will show you in a negative light . |
| 14 | The House of Commons Employment Committee proposes the establishment of a ‘ decade of retirement ’ between the age of 60 and 70 , which would allow people to choose for themselves when they wished to retire over this period of time . |
| 15 | Money empowers people to choose for themselves what kind of accommodation they need , how much assistance with household chores they require , and how much help they need from neighbours or private agencies . |
| 16 | At a particularly exciting point I dropped it between the seats in front , and insisted that my parents ask the people to look for it . |
| 17 | people bonking for you ! |
| 18 | They can argue that they make their position on these things perfectly clear , and that if people vote for them then they know what they are going to get and have no right to claim that sabbatarianism is being forced on them . |
| 19 | There were about thirty people waiting for them as they left their home . |
| 20 | More generally we read reports of people waiting for their relative who is ‘ presumed dead ’ in some conflict or accident . |
| 21 | But he had no sense that they were being watched , that somewhere between these walls and the windows glinting in the transitory sun there were people waiting for him in anxiety , grief , perhaps in fear . |
| 22 | There were seven people waiting for him , the Richardsons , the Hoopers , two parishioners from Snead , and Miss Dunstable from Loxford . |
| 23 | The Award will be given by Mr John Roberts of Meirionnydd CPRW to mark CPRW 's recognition of the hard work of local people caring for their environment . |
| 24 | When the Princess Royal visited the region on behalf of the Save the Children Fund last year , the local people danced for her . |
| 25 | The people clamour for what they are going to get anyhow ’ ( Adorno 1976 : 29 ; 1941 : 38 ) . |
| 26 | And the whole system 's supposed to be funded by abolishing Child Benefit and the tax allowances people get for their children . ’ |
| 27 | Though much resented by MPs who had had to go through the tiresome business of getting people to vote for them , he proved a determined and effective minister , until he decided he 'd had enough of the political rough-and-tumble which went with the job . |
| 28 | It was n't just that Major appeared to have accepted a dare to go through an entire broadcast without offering a single specific incentive of any kind for people to vote for him , but Brunson , an experienced broadcaster , was even odder . |
| 29 | Mr Kinnock needs to do more than spend three quarters of an hour in the area to persuade people to vote for him . |
| 30 | Answer : ‘ Get fourteen people to vote for us . ’ |