Example sentences of "people [vb base] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last thing most of these people want is to be given reasons for changing their minds . |
| 2 | We believe that people should have the choice and the choice and the rights that most people want is for their children to be educated in schools without water dripping down the walls , where the ceiling does n't fall in , that does n't rely on temporary classes . |
| 3 | Over 19,000 people have worked for Delta for more than 10 years and over 11,300 people have been with us for over 20 years . |
| 4 | The solar system has travelled round the galaxy almost 20 times since it was formed , and it has described only a tiny arc of its journey during the two million years that people have been on the Earth . |
| 5 | ‘ These good people have been to an enormous amount of trouble on my behalf , and I am sure I shall be quite unable to do justice to their generous provision . ’ |
| 6 | He says people have been to myself and I know they 've been to the doctor , crying in the surgery over there not being a burial ground , because obviously when one 's loved ones die they wish to have them buried here . |
| 7 | He says people have been to myself and I know they 've been to the doctor , crying in the surgery over there not being a burial ground , because obviously when one 's loved ones die they wish to have them buried here . |
| 8 | Scores of people have been through them and their marginal jottings and exclamations are reminders of those who searched and those who found . |
| 9 | Some elderly people have been through a divorce leaving a residue of ambivalent feelings and some social isolation ( Hunt , 1978 , Table 12:8:1 ) . |
| 10 | BY THE sound of ‘ Tantrum ’ and ‘ Intact ’ , these people have been through some murderous , futile relationships . |
| 11 | How many people have been through ? |
| 12 | Then again , too many young people have been through the finals course , often at considerable financial hardship to themselves or their families , only to find that they can not be absorbed into a recession-hit profession . |
| 13 | Since it first opened in April , almost 5,000 people have been through the doors . |
| 14 | Since then , more than 170 jobs have been created and 20,000 people have been through the Employment and Enterprise Centre . |
| 15 | There was often a special pride that the family were ‘ all in the trade ; ’ ‘ all my people have been in the dealing world ; ’ ‘ we 've been blacksmiths for generations ; ’ or they had been self-employed Portland quarrymen ‘ right back a hundred year back . ’ |
| 16 | She also says : ‘ … where people have been in the habit of reaching out towards the Unseen they wear a kind of track , and it 's much easier to go out that way . ’ |
| 17 | Jacob 's people have been in Egypt some 370 years . |
| 18 | Have you ever been in love ? , are you now ? , button one for yes , button two for no and in this hundred , woof ninety three people have been in love , what , what happened ? , |
| 19 | People have been in the house and they nipped in while they 've been |
| 20 | Our people have been in touch with the police , just checking to see if there could be a terrorist element . |
| 21 | Some people have been in hospital for 34 years and have never had their independence . |
| 22 | After last week 's further note on the ineffectiveness of Neighbourhood Watch schemes in Darlington , another three people have been in touch . |
| 23 | What , so these two people have been in here , staying here , no television , no microwave ? |
| 24 | Miss erm whatever her name is said that erm people have been in there . |
| 25 | We 've all — take these two poems , we 've all been children ; most people have been in love ; we 're all we all think about our death ; we all think about our parents ; we all like stories and we all like stories that seem , you know , to deal with some primal central human experience , so I do n't think you have to say anything more than what we all know already , that we all have a great deal in common with one another . |