Example sentences of "and [vb infin] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a fraught silence , while Caroline wished fervently that the ground could indeed open and swallow people . |
| 2 | So erm I mean the justification for this kind of course I would claim is ultimately to try and make people more realistic about what is possible and er the , because th th the advantage of knowing what 's possible is you can avoid impossible experiments that ultimately result in disaster for everyone . |
| 3 | So what the philosopher has to do is to look at these , all these various factors and begin to try and make people conscious of the inadequacies of the way in which they live , and of the new possibilities which are open to them , if they will only project their minds outside the established bounds . |
| 4 | It seems to me that it ought to be our policy that we ought to try and locate people who go into these sorts of residencies as close to the people who will be concerned for their welfare as possible erm and that therefore there would be a strong case for making that sort of exception in those cases . |
| 5 | Tigers do kill and eat people , but there is almost always a reason . |
| 6 | So slacking finally gets to meet and influence people . |
| 7 | Anyone caught visiting the Bookman during these was automatically punished and he kept swapping them around to try and catch people out . |
| 8 | ‘ Superstart is to encourage and assist people with technical and manufacturing skills to link with other like-minded people to form thriving businesses which will provide additional employment for others , ’ said Frances Hoare , of Essex TEC . |
| 9 | And above all , top management must really want and stimulate people to be innovative . |
| 10 | to go out and break people 's jaws ! |
| 11 | Whatever one may argue for the value of research findings which ensue from this technique ( and certainly the publication of Down and Out must have come as a revelation to many people in present-day Britain ) the question must be squarely faced as to whether the social researcher has a right to deceive and manipulate people for research purposes . |
| 12 | This has the real hard stuff — cattle mutilations performed by aliens ( apparently , ‘ for reasons we do n't yet understand ’ , they 're also interested in cows ' bottoms ) , UFOs and AIDS , stories about he ‘ men in black ’ , CIA men from space , who drive brand new Fifties ' cars , wear trousers that do n't crease and harass people who claim to have seen UFOs . |
| 13 | ‘ This was our chance to play together and show people that we 're about artistic expression , not violence or prejudice . ’ |
| 14 | At first she sympathised a bit , but basically she thinks it 's because I dare to walk around and look people in the eye — I 'm too challenging or flirty or something . |
| 15 | Well erm you know we 've had a lot of people come to us and say we 've qualified sales by telephone , I do n't present that a problem with that , but we have discovered people have not listened to what we 've been saying , even on the training course , when they go out there to sell the space they keep making appointments to go and see people to talk about advertising . |
| 16 | They do n't make appointments to go and see people . |
| 17 | I would have said to you on the phone we do n't make appointments to go and see people to talk about advertising . |
| 18 | Because it is it is very simple if you follow the guidelines and I 'm gon na point out one or two things why it 's essential that you do not make an appointment to go and see people unless they know everything up front . |
| 19 | And I 'll tell you right now that unless you listen to the people that have been doing it for twenty years , in other words you do n't make appointments to go and see people to talk about |
| 20 | The important thing for me to emphasize to you er Trevor is that we do n't make appointments to go and see people to talk about advertising . |
| 21 | our impression is and that 's this is er people like yourself sitting there , is that er you will have qual you know you wo n't go and see people er unless |
| 22 | We do n't make appointments to go and see people to talk about advertising . |
| 23 | They 're going to try and interest people from Oakhanger and the Worldhams as well . |
| 24 | I feel that sometimes I do try to play God when I do try and keep people alive beyond reasonable times . |
| 25 | The first of those is leadership , that intangible attribute which can inspire and motivate people at all levels to achieve the impossible . |
| 26 | " If one is basically more anxious to please and amuse people than to keep an implacably appraising eye on them , " the author of the urbane and chuckling funny Appleby books , Michael Innes , has said , " one will never take the first step towards considerable writing . " |
| 27 | And because I feel unhappy and insecure here I cover up on what I really think because I 'm scared to let it out and confront people . |
| 28 | That 's why Caroline wanted you to go and meet people . |
| 29 | ‘ There is enough trouble for pensioners in this day and age without them having to go out and meet people such as you waiting to prey on them like jackals . ’ |
| 30 | She does her weekly shopping not in a huge supermarket but in the camp 's NAAFI and in an effort to actually go out and meet people Sue has got herself a day job . |