Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | John said , ‘ I do want to go on helping people . ’ |
| 2 | How will you go about lavishly praising people for giving up their time to attend the meeting ? |
| 3 | Interviews , in contrast , are labour intensive but allow for elaboration on issues , so charting people 's perceptions , evaluations and responses . |
| 4 | Besides , Susan 's not well enough to see people yet . |
| 5 | It is not the case that social dislocation and uncertainty necessarily make people turn to God . |
| 6 | But is it still true you only recruit people who are born British ? ’ |
| 7 | erm We park appallingly carelessly , some of us do it intentionally very often , some of us do it innocently or probably ignorantly , and perhaps to be fined on the spot would be a way of saving an awful lot of paperwork , an awful lot of time , and perhaps reminding people that they should n't be doing these things although I 'm always slightly worried , this is in a sense another problem , I 'm slightly worried by , by the inequity that six pounds or whatever it is will mean a lot to one person and hardly anything at all to another , and you do see some cars mis-parking again and again , and I 'm not sure that erm the instant penalty would make much difference there . |
| 8 | Some highly placed people were in fact former pupils of his . |
| 9 | French colonialism only taught people to put on perfume and a new shirt . |
| 10 | Like dissecting a frog , only using people and real-life situations . |
| 11 | So do you think , then , that this policy could only cover people with an income . |
| 12 | The organization very often mobilises the fear of aggression from competing companies rather than a mature dependent relationship with the enterprise and its management and so encourages people to submit to the power of supervisors : |
| 13 | You need to re member that you can be very technical when talking to experts but that the same illuminating technicalities will bewilder an audience comprising only lay people . |
| 14 | Sometimes I 'd come down to see people and do things , but only when I wanted to . |
| 15 | Both Mrs Thatcher and President Reagan were constantly reminding people that the world must stick together to fight the threat from such attacks . |
| 16 | But because it operates only at the level of ideas , without any attempt to specify why particular ideas are held in particular societies at particular times , other than by reference to other ideas , interactionist social psychology can only describe peoples ' beliefs , not explain them . |
| 17 | I had to stay in bed for two weeks after this , before I felt well enough to meet people again . |
| 18 | Their more rural environments have not only attracted people there for holidays and retirement , but also induced elements of industrial growth . |
| 19 | If you were to tell me that there are people , like the man upstairs to whom you now threaten to turn yourself in , who actually do have a strong sense of themselves , I would have to tell you that they are only impersonating people with a strong sense of themselves — to which you could correctly reply that since there is no way of proving whether I 'm right or not , this is a circular argument from which there is no escape . |
| 20 | Ruth sat on her bed and drew towards her the unfinished drawing of lions apparently devouring people — Christians probably , from the school 's Religious Knowledge . |
| 21 | erm Magistrates only send people to prison because they feel the circumstances of the case justify it and erm I think in the public mind erm the criticism is more often the reverse , that Magistrates are too soft , and I 've heard Lord Hailsham say more than once that if we do pay a price for the lay magistrate system it is leniency because what happens , and the difference between the lay magistrate system and the stipendiary system or the Crown Court system is that Magistrates do sit in threes , and what that tends to do is lead to compromises in sentence because discussion between three people irons out extreme views and you do tend to end up with a very well considered compromise view , which probably does tend to be more lenient than a sentence imposed by any one person who might himself take a very serious view of the circumstances . |
| 22 | This will be a far easier task if the initial advertisement/job description has been accurate enough to attract people with the right qualifications and experience . |
| 23 | They do so to replace people who are off on longer term absences , to undertake special one-off jobs , to provide extra cover during holiday periods and to meet seasonal demands for output . |
| 24 | The TEC system obviously allows people to make money by exploiting young people . |
| 25 | Referring to the Voluntary Severance Scheme in Bank of Ireland , Mr. Ryan said the IBOA did not oppose a scheme which enabled senior and long serving people to ‘ get a well-deserved rest from banking . |
| 26 | ‘ Then get expensive enough to hire people who can put one foot in front of another without the Army having to tell them how ! ’ |
| 27 | ‘ From now on , ’ said the telepath , very quietly , ‘ I only kill people who get in my way . ’ |
| 28 | Changes occurred as a by-product of war emergency which greatly affected people 's view of the secondary selection system . |
| 29 | Simon naturally put people 's backs up . |
| 30 | Keegan described the player he is chasing as being the right age and pedigree and insisted : I 'll only bring people in who are better than what I 've got . ’ |