Example sentences of "[adv prt] [verb] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | John said , ‘ I do want to go on helping people . ’ |
| 2 | Sometimes I 'd come down to see people and do things , but only when I wanted to . |
| 3 | Heavy vehicles , slowing down to allow people to cross , are often overtaken by cars , unaware of the crossing and the reason for the slowing heavy vehicle . |
| 4 | We use this way in to stop people stealing what gear we have.Andy has been scratching around for a regular roof over his head for a year , ever since he lost his job and his home burned down in a fire . |
| 5 | ‘ You have to put enough detail in to make people real , but do n't dally with subsidiary characters . ’ |
| 6 | If you are a community nurse , you will obviously not give all your clients with diabetes their morning insulin at the same time , but you may well attend to those needing insulin before going on to visit people with other needs . |
| 7 | When he left I phoned to wish him all the best and he said , ‘ keep on picking people 's brains ’ . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Until we can get enough food through to stop people starving to death , you wo n't be able to stop those who are prepared to kill for the few precious supplies , ’ said Julian . |
| 9 | He 's obliged to do it because it is a departure a very significant departure from his own development plan the plan that he piloted through to tell people exactly what the policies of North Yorkshire County Council were to be . |
| 10 | Maybe he was cheesed off meeting people so far along the ridge without explanation as to their start point . |
| 11 | Up to then , the woodland was considered to be the precious part of the countryside , and was often fenced off to stop people getting in . |
| 12 | If I let you wander off killing people all over the place — ‘ |
| 13 | More people are travelling than ever before and a complex and thriving industry has grown up to enable people to move round the world with comparative ease and speed . |
| 14 | I I mean er I doubt whether we 'll we 'll have a full slate in February anyway so I mean they 'll probably be the option for people to come in later and we 'll probably end up co-opting people later and er I think we should |
| 15 | The ProShare Association is an independent , non-profit-making organisation which was set up to help people understand and benefit from stockmarket investments . |
| 16 | All sorts of schemes were thought up to keep people busy and occupied during the trying period of ‘ waiting to be demobbed . ’ |
| 17 | Er , well you have to carry a twelve stone man over a hundred yards , you see , in a certain time , and that is one of the strength tests , erm er these are these are tests that are drawn up to get people in in the initial stages , and then they go on from there . |
| 18 | So please take on board that it is not good enough to answer that a notice was put up to tell people that they could claim , when many people are blind or disabled or do not have the wherewithal to understand . |
| 19 | Ken would go on upsetting people and then apologizing for his actions . |
| 20 | So after you you 've erm do it would I then go out to see people , is this what you 're meaning ? |
| 21 | Where planning is not purely negative ( which it has to be sometimes ) , it should set out to enable people to live decent lives . |
| 22 | Rather than having to go out to find people and ask them to be interviewed or to complete questionnaires , it may seem very attractive to have them safely on a panel where they can be used when needed . |
| 23 | In our little way , we are setting out to reform people 's thinking ’ . |
| 24 | A spokeswoman said letters were going out inviting people to apply for voluntary redundancies although the exact number was not yet known . |
| 25 | But Mr Espina has his work cut out to convince people that he was not in cahoots with Mr Serrano . |
| 26 | ‘ Unless he 's going all out to make people think he 's a really nice fellow . ’ |
| 27 | And one of the things that I 'm not sure we have addressed adequately now and perhaps wo n't this evening is how to get people into the theatre and I really thing that it would be worthwhile trying to find out stops people coming in . |
| 28 | You do n't have little set-pieces or set-ideas you gush out to impress people with . |
| 29 | No he 's , he 's , he 's just out to impress people , I mean he looks around to see if you 're watching him and he 'll erm no , yeah he 's acting the whole time , I do n't really , I do n't know if he knows who he is you know ? |
| 30 | You ought to be out beating people up and that kind of thing . |