Example sentences of "people take " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I 've always , I 've always understood , understood more recently the reason why that there would always seemed to be enough prisoners , when we know there really must be enough prisoners throughout the world is that the betting procedure and they 're making quite sure they 're the right people takes time and money and effort , erm , that 's part and also there are some areas of the world now , where , where there are n't as many prisoners as there were , there are very few , there are very few prisoners of conscience in Latin America because they do n't put them in prison they just get rid of them , they just disappear and there are practically , practically none from Latin America countries , cos of these , these disappearances rather than being put in prison , erm , but it 's a sort of combination of reasons I think but er quite a long time now , ten , fifteen years I think groups have only had one prisoner , whereas when I first joined and Ann 's there , we had three did n't we at one time ? |
| 2 | When a different set of people takes up the questions , this becomes obvious . |
| 3 | An Investor in People takes action to train and develop individuals on recruitment and throughout their employment . |
| 4 | What is important to a large majority of people takes second place to the market . |
| 5 | The bulk of care for elderly people takes place within family settings . |
| 6 | Comments in a personal mini-survey ranged from " I 'm fed up with reading endless puffs for " me too " products " to " why ca n't these people take our readership into account ? " |
| 7 | Did did many people take stuff to the |
| 8 | Did many people take stuff to the pawn shop ? |
| 9 | I had to learn to be more relaxed about things , to let other people take over . ’ |
| 10 | Did not many people take part ? ’ she asked artlessly . |
| 11 | Today in Britain , Michael is looking for ways to make people take out private insurance against all sorts of possibilities . |
| 12 | And all the other noises hearing people take for granted . |
| 13 | Well , obviously none of us would want to separate sex from erotica , and so er , and I think we , what we 'd like , what we wanted the leaflet to do was put , put sort of sex for , for young people er and students in particular in this case into a framework that allowed loving and resp , response of attitudes and , and eroticism , yes , and so I think what the leaflet does is , is let people take care of themselves sexually and let them take responsibility for their sexual acts . |
| 14 | He aimed to increase off-peak travel in particular by enhancing the quality of travel and station environment by ‘ Operation Pride ’ , a name coined to launch the quality improvement drive , and by new and imaginative marketing exercises , one of the first of which was a ‘ Network Day ’ on 21 June when over 200,000 people took advantage of the special £3 ticket enabling them to travel all day anywhere . |
| 15 | But few people took seriously the idea of such a hulk of a man going without food . |
| 16 | Twenty million people took overseas holidays in 1986 , many in the Americas . |
| 17 | ‘ He never used to notice when people took advantage of him , so I started pointing it out . |
| 18 | THE number of cheap-rate days for telephone users is to be cut from eight to five next year because not enough people took advantage of it , British Telecom announced yesterday . |
| 19 | The people took most of the money , but decried it as a decade of greed . |
| 20 | People took them in for them other people what was sick but we did n't never have no dosh . ’ |
| 21 | But what was much more important was the relationship between the particular nature of this political crisis and the religious recourse which some people took . |
| 22 | The problem with Seawright was that he openly voiced what many people took to be the true feelings of Democratic Unionists , often to the embarrassment of the DUP spokesmen who were presenting a more moderate position . |
| 23 | Even when people took an interest in wildlife , and visited wild places , they tended to trample on or otherwise disturb the creatures they admired . |
| 24 | And only two people took part . |
| 25 | Between four thousand and five thousand people took part and the demands of the rally were for a crash housing programme , a fair points system for the allocation of houses and legal control over the letting of furnished accommodation . |
| 26 | On Saturday , January 26 , 3,000 people took to the streets of London in the annual Bloody Sunday commemoration demonstration . |
| 27 | During the autumn of that year , more than five million people took to the streets of Europe in support of the cause of European disarmament . |
| 28 | The local people took this as a sign of displeasure from the Almighty who was shutting the doors of his house against his sinning congregation . |
| 29 | Very few people took Gedge 's humour the wrong way , but on one of those occasions an NME reviewer labelled him a ‘ gawky , arrogant mighty mouth . ’ |
| 30 | During the day hundreds of people took a trip around the harbour in Saltash steamers ’ . |