Example sentences of "[verb] some people " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , cos I 've heard some people stand up , pronounce that |
| 2 | Well , the you 've heard , I 've heard some people being nasty and , and they did n't say no , but it was always , not always it was occasionally done grudgingly , and , and erm in many cases of course it was done willingly , you know come in yes please do , and , and they did n't even want the penny that , that you offered them for the telephone call . |
| 3 | Why do you think some people opposed the building of oil refineries near Milford Haven ? |
| 4 | She looked at Tommaso Talvi in her mind 's eye , she adjusted her image of him to fit with her sister 's , she inventoried his features , beginning with the eyes , and redrafted them in order to see them as ‘ pretty ’ , she scanned his caffelatte pallor and his big hands , grasping the bread she had cut for him , she looked at his mouth , the purplish fullness of his lips and the strong teeth that showed when he grinned , as he had done , often , but without laughter , when the men were disagreeing about the possibilities of change , the chances of the election on returning the Socialists , of bringing about improvements for the labourers now that the franchise had at last been widened to include some people who were n't bosses , like her father , a music teacher with a sense of honour , of justice . |
| 5 | Tim wants you to see some people he knows who do investment advice — then you 'd get more out of those shares . |
| 6 | Other sources of fungi which may affect some people |
| 7 | See it would n't affect some people but |
| 8 | Some people , it does n't affect some people like . |
| 9 | Research also suggests it discourages some people from re-offending . |
| 10 | Although Commonwealth observers reported that voting had been free and fair , Mancham said that the poll had been rigged against the Democratic Party , claiming that there had been an " abundant use of state apparatus " in the SPPF campaign and that there had been irregularities in the establishment of the electoral lists , allowing some people to vote more than once . |
| 11 | With the hot spell set to continue , doctors now fear some people may expose themselves to the risk of skin cancer.Gareth Furby reports . |
| 12 | Ulcers tend to run in families , and genetic factors may make some people more susceptible to aggressive factors than others . |
| 13 | ‘ Glandular changes can make some people gain weight at the menopause but the commonest cause is eating and drinking more than you need . ’ |
| 14 | An allocation is Pareto-efficient for a given set of consumer tastes , resources , and technology , if it is impossible to move to another allocation which would make some people better off and nobody worse off . |
| 15 | An allocation is Pareto-efficient if there is no reallocation of resources that would make some people better off without making some people worse off . |
| 16 | towards crime prevention on the other hand it might make some people realise that if they 're no longer a scheme then they do n't get the er the |
| 17 | A few years ago — before 1986 — I was at a party with a few friends and we met some people who used to be in athletics . |
| 18 | ‘ I worked in the country for a while and met some people who were trying to recreate Woodstock . ’ |
| 19 | This is a whole of a mish-mash , I think we ought to go back to what we did in nineteen ninety two , its the twenty ninth of January and to confer the rights of tenants and other occupiers of land to allow or stop fox hunting or any other hunting over land in their care and least trust some people instead of this business of we know best . |
| 20 | This led some people to maintain that he had derived the idea of civil disobedience from Thoreau , a fact which Gandhi himself denied.a In due course he substituted the phrase ‘ civil resistance ’ for ‘ civil disobedience ’ on the grounds that it conveyed the notion of non-violence better , but he continued to regard civil disobedience as a branch of satyāgraha . |
| 21 | But I hope the articles in this issue of the magazine will say to you , as they do to me : you can fool some people some of the time , but you ca n't fool most people for ever . |
| 22 | After the third call Morris said to Bob , ‘ I asked some people to step round . ’ |
| 23 | Carinish Court had aroused some people 's envy : that at least was true , even if Ralph had perhaps been mistaken about Johnny Redburn 's reaction to the place . |
| 24 | ‘ They have minimum interest rates which mean some people are paying four per cent more than they should , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 25 | I mean some people are looking at me as though I 've just revealed some dread secret |
| 26 | Erm I mean some people say , quite wrongly , that it 's something that does n't take any part in the reaction but speeds it up , but how can it do that . |
| 27 | as far as part time work goes and supply work , because erm that work is sort of quite spasmodic I suppose it can be I mean some people do a regular amount some do bits here and there . |
| 28 | Er I mean some people like reggae music , some people like body popping and things like this , there 's all different taste . |
| 29 | Er without having a good relationship with the people in the flats , er if I mean some people if they say see something going off , they 'll turn their you know , turn their back and they do n't want to know . |
| 30 | never , I mean some people go around just like twins do n't they ? |