Example sentences of "people [Wh pn] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One partner , who suffered repeated phone calls from Channel 7 until he cut them off , said : ‘ People who signed up must be lacking in street wisdom . ’ |
| 2 | In my experience a great number of these are people who lacked little in terms of orthodox belief or depth of experience but who have never understood why their faith is true . |
| 3 | School was so long ago that we had passed into each others ' mythology , like people who met distantly in another country . |
| 4 | Jimmy-One-Arm … a great many people who played unwarily against him died unexpectedly in their early forties . |
| 5 | He says : ‘ They were rare even in Binks ’ day , but the strange thing was that there was a tradition among the people who lived up there in those days to make a ball out of clay and cover it with spring gentians . |
| 6 | People who lived longer were more likely to have spent some or all of the last year of their lives in residential homes . |
| 7 | It was as if these were the names of tenants or people who lived upstairs , but in fact no one lived upstairs except Madame . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the people who lived here were only comfortably rich , not seriously rich like those who lived , say , in the Bishops Avenue . |
| 9 | The people who lived here moved away a couple of years ago , so I was told . |
| 10 | As soon as she 'd freshened up she would go out for a meal and see something of the city and the people who lived here . |
| 11 | The post would only be used for people who lived out of the dale . |
| 12 | Numbers were small ; but a final case study approach revealed that for people who lived alone , had no informal carer who could manage all necessary care ; and had a high level of cognitive impairment , the Home Support Project was likely to prolong home care beyond that of those who had received only the usual services . |
| 13 | By the 1870s there was also genuine concern for the poor people who lived by or drank from them . |
| 14 | It may have been idyllic to some but evidently not to the people who lived as close to the land as James Seely did . |
| 15 | These people who lived in , ha they had a shop in as well . |
| 16 | Amid the ruins on the most remote Highland croft still remains ample evidence of age-old customs and beliefs concerning plants and their significance in the daily lives of the people who lived there . |
| 17 | I told him it was easy : all I had to do was quote the people who lived there . |
| 18 | Ever since 1099 , when the first crusaders captured the Holy City and massacred the people who lived there , Jews and Muslims alike , the Christians had always treated Jerusalem as though it belonged to them alone . |
| 19 | On nights like this all Fontanellato was out , defying the curfew , and we all prayed that it would soon end and prayed for the people who lived there . |
| 20 | Charles Booth described how each district had its own peculiar flavour because of its distinctive occupational structure , a flavour that could be detected in the streets from observing the faces of the people who lived there and noticing what they carried : |
| 21 | Even when the houses were brand new , they were suitable only for people who lived very similar lives , and whose conduct varied very little from a fairly restrictive norm . |
| 22 | Some of them looked as if they had only just risen from their beds , as if this was breakfast time to them ; others had the look of people who had n't slept for a week . |
| 23 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we saw in the town meetings , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them together saying we want our future back . |
| 24 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them saying we want our future back . ’ |
| 25 | but they were much more interested in people of course with degrees but they did take people who had n't . |
| 26 | ‘ People who had n't read the small print of their contracts . |
| 27 | He said Dr Runcie was being attacked by people who had not read the article in its entirety . |
| 28 | Arguably the necessary detachment was more likely to be found in people who had not had the kind of upbringing so thoroughly enjoyed by Mary Queen of Scots . |
| 29 | Taking all types of respondents together their ratings were similar for people who had not been in a residential home at all and those who had been in one for a year or more , while those who had only spent part of the last year of their lives in a residential home were generally felt to have had a worse quality of life : for 39 per cent of them it was rated as poor compared with 27 per cent of the other two groups . |
| 30 | The strength of the DCAC was not simply that it had the backing of the existing leadership of anti-Unionist opinion in Derry , but also that it succeeded in attracting new people who had not previously been involved in any kind of political activity but who found unsuspected reservoirs of energy and initiative . |