Example sentences of "people do [det] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ 2.4 million people done those Italians last weekend , I just read about it in the Daily Mirror .
2 Why did people do that with their two faces ?
3 ‘ Goodness — do people do that ? ’ said Gervase incredulously .
4 How could people do that to one another ?
5 Could de people do such evil
6 You let people do this sort of thing for their sake .
7 Why do these people do this ? ’ she said .
8 His girlfriend Susan Kent says she 's disgusted , how can people do this to each other ?
9 Why do people do these things ?
10 Sonia : So why take it out on the black people then , she 's told black people to do many things , she 's even called them monkey .
11 The reason for this is not so much that it was beyond some people 's capacity to do imposition and so on ; but rather that it cost employers money to train people to do such tasks .
12 They pay clever people to do that for them — people who , collectively , go under the name of the Cabinet Office Assessments Staff .
13 " People are always telling other people to do that kind of thing , " said Clelia , " it must give them a vicarious thrill .
14 Independent advice er comes from major brokers , the banks and building societies have come out of independent advice pretty well , because they 've decided that it 's expensive and a hassle , cos we 're regulated all the time and of course it makes , we 've , we 've got to analyze the products on the market , so we 've got to pay people to do that .
15 They had people to do that for them half the time , there was no need for it , but it was as if I had to earn my keep , I had to repay what they 'd done for me , with the people that worked there laughing at me behind my back , wondering where I 'd come from , thinking maybe I was no better than them .
16 Will he now change his mind or shall we have to wait for the people to do that for him ?
17 We 're very obsessed with things called viewing figures in television and I worked out quite simply that if everybody among the eleven million people who are supposed to view Keeping Up Appearances every Sunday , popped a penny into a money box for Save The Children Fund one Sunday night , that would raise a hundred and ten thousand pounds within an hour , now why do n't we get going and encourage people to do that .
18 So do n't encourage the people to do that but that is true if it 's so valued you would have thought there would have been an outcry , there has n't been .
19 ‘ I saw that little curtsy she made to you — it must be difficult to get people to do that in the 1990s . ’
20 That requires more people to carry out the Conservative Government Acts of Parliament , and we are bound to employ more people to do that .
21 That was very planned , and , and on that subject of planned and set up clips , I know er it may be tempting for people to do that , er but can I just say that we , you just get a gut reaction for anything that 's planned , it might even be cleverly done , but you ca n't actually rationalise it , you just know if something 's not , not real , not , not accidental , so er I would n't really encourage people to , to do set up pieces .
22 And of course heating your house in the middle of the night is not what everybody wants , so there has to be an attractive price to persuade people to do that and to invest in the storage heaters , hence the half price electricity .
23 She 's got other people to do all that for her .
24 See , you just ca n't get people to do all these odd jobs can you ?
25 That 's why it has taken me a long time to say ‘ I do work hard , so I need people to do this kind of stuff ’ . ’
26 something wrong with all the people that allow a few people to do this ?
27 It 's quite interesting when they get people to do this test erm , if they fit into certain categories , depending upon their job as well , it 's almost , it is strange , that you do get erm , say solicitors to do it .
28 Some companies employ people to do this on a full-time basis .
29 I remember , again a few years ago , visiting India and buying one or two beautifully carved tables , which had obviously been carved by an individual spending quite a lot of time doing it , and I was impressed at that stage , rather naively perhaps , that if in fact I 'd bought a plain table , an uncarved one , it would have cost me about ten times as much , for the simple reason that that would require a milling machine which was not normally available , and such was the erm economy that it was cheaper for people to do this .
30 Likewise , you may have to pay other people to do some of the jobs , such as the decorating , that you previously managed yourself .
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