Example sentences of "[modal v] [to-vb] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Order froze the world , Ari , and those who set themselves up as leaders of society used everything they could to control people around them . |
| 2 | That ought to draw people — the title , you know . ’ |
| 3 | Well perhaps we ought to give people a s a a list a piece of paper and a pencil when they come into church one day , and say , Write down all the words that you hear today , or sing today that you do not understand . |
| 4 | We decided we ought to give people the opportunity to see some of the water meadow . |
| 5 | SPECIALIST equipment used to treat people with speech impediments has been stolen in a break-in at a Dumfries hospital . |
| 6 | uses now the reason we need , not just nuclear power of course , but all other sources of energy er is erm illustrated by these next couple of slides erm I 'm sure you 've seen data like this before growth in the world 's population over the last er few hundred years erm over the middle ages the er world 's population was fairly stable , although the birth rate was high er the death rate was equally high because of things like cholera and bubonic plague and smallpox and other things that used to kill people off in large numbers . |
| 7 | Well I did n't see a soul that I kn I mean I used to go and used to see people like |
| 8 | I mean to say er used to see people years ago and they got these cine cameras and and all , we could never have one of those you know and a record of the kids when they were young . |
| 9 | To tell you the truth , before I went to prison I used to meet people who had been to prison and I did n't want to talk to them because I thought they were funny . |
| 10 | ‘ I had an uncle who was dying of emphysema , ’ said Betty , ‘ and he used to implore people not to make him laugh because it took his breath away , and I could never understand what he could find to amuse him . ’ |
| 11 | He always used to lecture people , tell them about the honesty of the artist , the necessity not to speak like a bourgeois . |
| 12 | ‘ It was just a tune I used to annoy people with . |
| 13 | It reminded me of when I used to give people money just to make them go away again . |
| 14 | ‘ Before , we used to give people the tools and let them get on with the modelling , ’ Mr Wise explains . |
| 15 | ‘ My mother used to phone people up , people where I was working , and say : ‘ Now , you be very careful of my daughter . ’ |
| 16 | Then , looking at the Lagonda , Emily went on : ‘ My Dad used to teach people to drive in it . ’ |
| 17 | When we were at college he used to invite people to ‘ cleaning parties ’ once a month . |
| 18 | You used to get people writing into the Liverpool Echo saying , ‘ Who 's this Martian walking round town . ’ |
| 19 | The one in Yorkshire that used to meet at erm hotel on the A one near Pontefract , used to get people over from Hull for that . |
| 20 | Apparently , I mean I 've read this , but I do n't know how there was actual references to it as well but apparently what they used to do run a test they used to do was they used to get people very very angry take some blood from them , put put them inside of rats and it would kill the rats . |
| 21 | fresh fruiting people , and I used to have people coming to my house |
| 22 | There used to have people used to all go and get some hot peas and the fish and chips and eat them you know , as they was going home and and all like that . |
| 23 | They used to have people specializing for erm , erm blind individuals . |
| 24 | Not as I remember no funnily enough but they used to have people who , who went out to work at different airports after the planes had gone out they used to have gangs that went out to Perton and er we used to draw equipment from er the maintenance un RAF maintenance unit at Stafford things used to come from there . |
| 25 | Was that to get rid of the sort of ee erm the way them building firms used to take people on every day ? |
| 26 | They used to wind people up . |
| 27 | Simon used to tell people she was a Giorgione toned down by Gainsborough ; there is something lighter than pure Italian . |
| 28 | Er but I used to tell people and they you know people near me that had a lot of children and er they 'd moan and groan about it , I heard one woman say erm , she 'd had quite a few children and I I 'd been in hospital and I said er , er a certain person that 'd had a baby had lost it . |
| 29 | What used to throw people was interest rates going up and down but fixed-rate mortgages have sorted that out . ’ |
| 30 | She said she did n't think money ought to stop people living , actually living : making their lives little when they could be big . |