Example sentences of "[pron] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | My people drove home without stopping , except for petrol — all 900 miles . |
| 2 | I am leaving behind my people who have fought a 14-year resistance ; that would not be accepted . |
| 3 | My people at the PFA feel that until the League get together and show there is a practical job for me to do , they do n't see why they should let me go . ’ |
| 4 | Looking back to this primitive folk , MacLeish uses the invocation ‘ o my people ’ ( which would form the conclusion of section V of ‘ Ash-Wednesday ’ ) , and , after vividly conjuring up a seaboard landscape , recalls details of ‘ real things ’ , including |
| 5 | ‘ No , my lord , ’ ( such courtesy again , and such artful courtesy too , as we shall see ! ) ‘ hear me ; I give you the field , and I give you the cave that is in it ; in the presence of the sons of my people I give it to you ; bury your dead . ’ |
| 6 | My people have just finished their knitting and a thousand dishcloths are on their way to you . |
| 7 | In this chapter , I would like to try to explain some of the laws and customs of my people , particularly with regard to women and marriage , and dispel some of the myths and fairy stories which had totally misled me . |
| 8 | I have recreated the thousand-year historic unity of the German living-space , and I have attempted to do all this without spilling blood and without inflicting on my people or on others the suffering of war . |
| 9 | I have managed this from my own strength , as one who twenty-one years ago was an unknown worker and soldier of my people . |
| 10 | When I saw all my people at the station , I felt completely overwhelmed . |
| 11 | My people , what have you done ? |
| 12 | Inside is the home of my people — the white man may take the land outside . |
| 13 | It has always belonged to my people . |
| 14 | I have been talking to the whites many years about the lands in question , and it is strange they can not understand me ; the country they claim belonged to my father , and when he died it was given to me and my people , and I will not leave it until I am compelled to . |
| 15 | Made me ashamed before my people ! |
| 16 | He informed us in a haughty spirit that he would give my people thirty days to go back home , collect all their stock , and move to the reservation , saying , ‘ If you are not here in that time , I shall consider that you want to fight , and will send my soldiers to drive you on ’ . |
| 17 | But Joseph was now resigned to moving to the reservation , saying : ‘ It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk , but I urged my people to be quiet , and not to begin a war . ’ |
| 18 | There their numbers were swelled to 200 fighting men and 500 elders , women and children by the arrival of Looking Glass , who declared bitterly : ‘ Now , my people , as long as I live I will never make peace with the treacherous Americans . |
| 19 | I can not tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth . |
| 20 | The Great Spirit … seemed to be looking some other way , and did not see what was being done to my people . |
| 21 | Three of my people died on the way ’ . |
| 22 | Good words will not give my people good health and stop them from dying . |
| 23 | Good words will not get my people a home where they can live in peace , and take care of themselves . |
| 24 | If I can not go to my own home , let me have a home in some country where my people will not die so fast . |
| 25 | There my people would be healthy … |
| 26 | The Great Spirit above has left me and my people to their fate . |
| 27 | The white men forget us and death comes almost every day for some of my people . |
| 28 | If the government would only give me a small piece of land for my people in the Wallowa Valley , with a teacher , that is all I would ask . |
| 29 | My people died of hunger , and he who |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |