Example sentences of "[vb base] people [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Press people to clarify their disagreements with examples . |
| 2 | Firemen want people to wear clothes which wo n't catch fire . |
| 3 | I want people to realise the train coming down the track might not be all that it seems . ’ |
| 4 | I want people to realise the train coming down the track might not be all that it seems . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I want people to realise that a vote for us is not wasted . ’ |
| 6 | On the other hand , I want people to like me . |
| 7 | That probably is n't true because all of us want people to like us . |
| 8 | I just want people to give me a chance to help others . ’ |
| 9 | Perhaps the former are slower ; or perhaps they are doing it because they want people to say they are working hard . |
| 10 | All of our reparation work is based on the fact that we want people to volunteer to do this work . |
| 11 | I want people to tick off what they get and what they do n't get right ? |
| 12 | ‘ Really we just want people to take notice . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ We want people to see how money is being spent here and how we have improved conditions . ’ |
| 14 | " The exhibitors thought they just wanted a big shed , " Bizat phlegmatically recalls , " and their view was " all we want people to see is our stands , we do n't want them looking anywhere else " , so they disliked the idea ofa setting that was attractive in itself But the then architect , Dr Peter Smith , wanted to bring the Palace back to its previous glory . |
| 15 | It depends whether you want people to see the laces or not . |
| 16 | A huge orange and black van with the full the name of the owner on it of course , because if you want to advertise something a removal van is one of the best things in the world for putting an advert on if you want people to see it that is . |
| 17 | I WANT PEOPLE TO NOTICE ME |
| 18 | We want people to try something new and feel good about their achievements ! |
| 19 | The print of her body was vague and abstract like those blots psychologists want people to interpret , only this one was cabbage green . |
| 20 | Under the new system , we want people to have rights to choose the sort of care that they receive , rather than be directed to it . |
| 21 | There is no altogether painless way of escaping from a pay-as-you-go scheme , particularly if you want people to make substitute provision . |
| 22 | I want people to experience my pain and passion . ’ |
| 23 | I want people to tell me exactly how they feel , because I find that , when people speak exactly what they feel , it 's usually what I feel too . |
| 24 | ‘ Our five-point charter covers provision , access , hygiene , design and facilities for parents , ’ she says , ‘ and we want people to tell us what improvements they 'd like . ’ |
| 25 | I 've had two or three I think , very rarely do we find them and shapers tend to go out on a limb they tend to want to lead they tend to want to control they want people to follow their way they do tend to be the people that dig in and say you know this is the way we do it . |
| 26 | Which is why of course they 've decided on th the grading system that they have , that they want people to achieve perhaps a class one status wherever possible and maintain it . |
| 27 | But we also want people to understand what is happening in places like Latin America so they have a better awareness of why Oxfam is trying to help . |
| 28 | If you want people to think well of you , do not speak well of yourself . |
| 29 | I think in general by virtue of the fact that we go to great lengths to make sure that people fully understand exactly what they have got I mean we 're not in a in a situation where we want people to think that they 've got something they have n't , which is why we go to the lengths that we do erm to make sure that people are fully aware of what they 've got , and if they 're unhappy with what they 've got then obviously within the fourteen day period we give them the right to cancel . |
| 30 | ‘ I really want people to travel to see lovely things . ’ |