Example sentences of "it [vb past] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can see how it got people 's backs up , ’ says Lesley . |
| 2 | ‘ It got people to sit down and think about these things . |
| 3 | It asked people to join ‘ a growing movement for action on the greatest issue of our times ’ . |
| 4 | In Sir Hugh Casson 's words , ‘ It made people want things to be better and to believe they could be . ’ |
| 5 | Thirdly , it made people aware of the effect affluence was having on their environment . |
| 6 | He said he was nineteen years old ; he also said he was an orphan , but they all said that , they thought it made people pay more . |
| 7 | It made people conscious that we were in touch with our friends in Burma again and it generated a spirit of confidence that liberation was only a matter of time . |
| 8 | As one of the group put it : ‘ It made people think about what they wanted to do for the whole year . ’ |
| 9 | It made people go crazy . |
| 10 | Better education opportunities : There was a general sense of dissatisfaction with education provision which seemed to relate more to whether it met people 's needs than the actual range of classes provided . |
| 11 | When Her Majesty decided that she would not pay poll tax , even though it was supposed to be levied on every adult in the country , it changed people 's thinking , he says . |
| 12 | The the premise on this was what what do parents , and I know the words are wrong but at least it moved people along way er er er what do parents want to know about their youngsters ? |
| 13 | In the great store wars to get customers in , supermarkets invented the ‘ loss leader ’ — lines such as bread on which they were prepared to make a small loss if it lured people in . |
| 14 | A transvestite told me it helped people like him to accept themselves — and the women in their lives to accept them . |
| 15 | He tried to reach her again , and told the operator to put the howler on the line because the phone was off the hook , but the girl said reprovingly that it could n't be done in the middle of the night in case it woke people up . |
| 16 | It attracted people of similar views and backgrounds and it 's no surprise — or should n't be — that such people still mix in the same circles now . |
| 17 | Its initial success came chiefly in the traditional Dissenting districts , but by the beginning of Victoria 's reign it attracted people of all social backgrounds in almost every type of community except the estate village . |
| 18 | For instance , it prevented people from being excluded from trade union membership and he denied that this clause was in because of the European Social Charter . |
| 19 | Sympathy for the general aims of civil rights legislation turned to hostility when it affected people 's everyday lives . |
| 20 | and all that sort of thing and how it affected people buying furniture because there was a very high luxury tax |
| 21 | The shadow budget 's tax bands gave Labour the look of punitive vindictiveness : it drew the line where , realistically , it reckoned people could afford it , forgetting that in post-Thatcher Britain , people calculate their tax liabilities not on what they actually earn , but how much they hope , desire or aspire to earn in the very near future . |
| 22 | Job Start 50+ illustrates this point well ; a government pilot scheme designed for part-time work only , it allowed people to earn a maximum of just £2.27 an hour in 1989 . |
| 23 | In political terms ( see chapter 6 above ) it separated people like ‘ the intelligent artisan ’ , to whom British middle-class radicals were anxious to give the vote , from the dangerous and ragged masses whom they were still determined to exclude . |
| 24 | ‘ British colonialism was no good , but it taught people to read . |
| 25 | Italian colonialism was no good , but it taught people to work . |
| 26 | It taught people about a language , but not how to use that knowledge in talking or communication . |
| 27 | It needed people to work all night sending out subscription copies , getting them down to the all-night post office . |
| 28 | It warned people on their way into the temple of their position before the gods . |
| 29 | Erm , I do understand that er , you know , we 've got another report coming to us tomorrow on it , and there may be some additions on it disabled people hopefully about getting more people to , disabled people to That that 's another aim we help people |
| 30 | But he did n't just hate the railway as such ; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress . |