Example sentences of "[v-ing] other people " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the night he might be heard running up and down his attic bedroom banging the wall at each end , and keeping other people awake . |
| 2 | If you put young people to work digging ditches , the argument ran , you were keeping other people out of employment ; and what young people needed was not bogus work but real jobs . |
| 3 | What they told me was that people come to this country impersonating other people , get a passport and then pretend they 're British . |
| 4 | The absence of her own , however , has enabled her to spend a lifetime amusing and instructing other people 's . |
| 5 | Yeah if you 're taking it you just want a laugh and you know you 're not affecting anyone else but if you 're dealing you 're pressing other people to buy it . |
| 6 | Ahmed : When you are Black and gay and you open yourself up to the realities and contradictions inherent in this combined identity , it provides a better basis for understanding other people 's experience , both intellectually and intuitively . |
| 7 | In the same way , understanding other people 's explanations has both cognitive and linguistic components . |
| 8 | Criminal statistics are not produced by criminals — they are produced by people defining other people and acts as criminal . |
| 9 | Wainfleet went on as the drinks arrived : ‘ All sorts of folk have their reasons for wanting other people 's private business , or their own , published . |
| 10 | He was serving other people all the while and making out we were talking about the Superbowl . |
| 11 | I think they have a cheek to complain about people writing other people 's press releases when they ca n't even write their own speeches , they just take a bit of their leaders and claim it as their own . |
| 12 | I had developed a deft hand at writing bills and counterfeiting other people 's signatures , my master 's included . |
| 13 | But the police are now warning other people to call them immediately if they 're every approached by anyone suspicious . |
| 14 | A WOMAN who fell victim to a cruel conman estimated to have swindled more than £1m is warning other people not to be taken in . |
| 15 | I do n't like the idea of people ordering other people to do work they would n't touch themselves . ’ |
| 16 | Because training other people 's feelings is not available as a method of reducing reluctance , the manager in a school has to choose which elements of the process of change will in themselves bring about changes of attitude . |
| 17 | And whilst in a Shakespeare play well , let me just give the , give the ex erm example that if this was a Shakespeare play for example , and you , you had all these characters in disguise conning other people and whatever , by the end of the play everybody would be out of their disguises and marrying each other and all the bad people would have been consigned , you know , to stage off |
| 18 | These agencies can offer forms of help that usually can not be provided by the therapist ( e.g. obtaining rehousing , meeting other people with similar interests ) . |
| 19 | ‘ She would n't be meeting other people and she would n't have her own money so she could n't go . |
| 20 | meeting other people in similar circumstances and no matter how much you tend to know , you 'll learn and feed off each other |
| 21 | Working outside gets him acclimatized to meeting other people before being released . |
| 22 | Speaking as someone with a job I 've got to be very careful about giving advice to people who are in a much worse situation than myself , but from the research we did erm it is clear that it 's very important erm not just to sink in and dwell on your problems , not just to erm stay at home , not meeting other people , not engaging in activities . |
| 23 | " People are always replacing other people , " he said with unlooked-for soberness . |
| 24 | The position is still worse because , in many schools , most of the RE time available is spent on content only marginally linked with religion : on moral and cultural education of one kind or another or social studies in which the information conveyed about different religions tends to be of a largely sociological nature , describing other people 's customs and beliefs . |
| 25 | Moreover , although what they are testing other people for are their own conventions , their own work does not necessarily provide evidence of them in practice . |
| 26 | Erm , because er , it does seem that erm , though we 're not talking about our own fuel , we 're talking about testing other people 's fuel , and erm , there 's an , it 's an arcane point about district councils . |
| 27 | People leading other people in untried directions are the true shapers of change . |
| 28 | It 's also made me aware of the responsibilities involved in leading other people in bad situations — but I will tackle mountains again and I will go to camp again . |
| 29 | I got up at six , spent all day cleaning other people 's houses , from 8.30 a.m. until 4.30 , with half an hour for dinner , for £25 . |
| 30 | from cleaning other people 's stairs . |