Example sentences of "other people [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He always expected other people to clean up after him . |
| 2 | Change is often resisted because it can be a nuisance and an interference ; it requires other people to stop what they are doing or redirect their thinking . |
| 3 | We appear to be selfish , cynical creatures ; our greatest ambition in relation to rules of behaviour is to get other people to obey them so that our own cheating is even more productive . |
| 4 | But what I call dressing up and what other people calling dressing up are probably two different things . |
| 5 | Other people help out at the playgroup . |
| 6 | Other people tempted to rearrange borders for ethnic reasons ( Hungarians looking at western Romania , Greeks eyeing southern Albania , Russians glaring this way and that ) will have to go on making their own calculations about how much they really want that bit of the country next door , how tricky seizing it might be , and so on . |
| 7 | Once his appearance has been changed to identify him with the group ( it may be dyeing his hair shocking pink or wearing a big badge ) , then not only will other people assume that he has agreed to all the ideas and implications of the movement but he himself will be more likely to feel this to be true , even to throw all doubt to the four winds without further investigation . |
| 8 | On his way , many other people passed him with water pots — many with swollen knees like himself and others with different disfigurements . |
| 9 | Other people muttered that , the way Macready had it set up , what went on in his places was n't really gambling . |
| 10 | The normal childhood that other people wished on him struck him as mostly plaguing and tawdry ; his own lost norm , a life spent in the company of ribald sopranos and tap-dancers and hard-pressed comedians in fear of the sack , seemed to have more decency and purpose . |
| 11 | In the parents ' houses the Dynmouth Hards crept upstairs and into bedrooms in which other people slept , considerate because in their homes they were required to be . |
| 12 | St Tropez was known for its beaches , and normally she could spend hours just soaking up the sun and watching the other people parading , but she felt too unsettled to do much more than lie on her towel , playing aimlessly with the sand and trying to convince herself that she did not want anything more out of Piers than he was prepared to give her . |
| 13 | other people click ? |
| 14 | We have to learn to value ourselves before we can expect other people to like us . |
| 15 | You 're paying somebody to like you and to encourage other people to like you , which is a bit of a bizarre concept . |
| 16 | But it seems to me that he needs other people to bounce off , even though he can do it all himself . |
| 17 | I never touched anything but soda-water and so I realize how other people played on her drunkenness and she was so … half-charming and such a fool ’ . |
| 18 | Do you like to be there because other people like to be there ? |
| 19 | Make sure the list is based upon how you feel now — not upon what you used to enjoy , or think you ‘ should ’ enjoy , or what other people like to do . |
| 20 | Because the people who run those things are 40-year-old ex-rockers driving Porsches around , they feel threatened that people can make music with computers that other people like . |
| 21 | If other people like us that 's great … they can be part of our fun … ’ |
| 22 | ‘ The images which I like best are the ones which other people like — which have the best response . |
| 23 | At grade F , in contrast , the candidate is required ‘ to display knowledge of perspectives of other people based on specific examples of situations and events ’ . |
| 24 | If it meant anything at all it probably meant other people thought you were a bit like them . |
| 25 | Yanto , on the other hand , had always been acutely aware and sensitive about what other people thought of him . |
| 26 | ‘ Other people thought it might be a personal thing but I never really believed it until I heard some of the things Taylor has come out with . |
| 27 | ‘ A lot of other people thought there might be a problem with this fight . |
| 28 | They were both a little too adult to care what other people thought . |
| 29 | What other people thought of me , I did not care . |
| 30 | If you stay still , you can hear other people moving towards you long before they can see you . |