Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] people [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Mitchell has spent the last five months getting people to write to the Royal Mail Stamp Programme Manager in London to lobby for a set of stamps honouring his father 's work . |
| 2 | The tragedy prompted people living in the area to campaign for road improvements . |
| 3 | Lyle Shelton in Bearcat Rare Bear started people talking about the 500mph mark , with a winning average speed of 481mph . |
| 4 | The second strand of the work to help people to move across the European Community is the mutual recognition of qualifications . |
| 5 | There should be a stockpile of sandbags to help people cope with the floods . |
| 6 | The posts stuck into the rock to your right as you ascend are markers for winter to stop people going off the edge ; they also double as abseil posts for a quick escape route . |
| 7 | Throughout its life of eight years , myth building encouraged people to think of the unit as being on the margins of the organization . |
| 8 | They may of course enable people to live in the community longer before a prolonged and expensive period of institutionalized decline until death ; or they may fail to bring about any significant changes . |
| 9 | And it gives us an excuse to let people know about the River Thames . |
| 10 | Research has shown — as might be expected — that ‘ natural breaks ’ in programmes allow people to go to the lavatory or brew up a cup of tea rather than watch the commercials . |
| 11 | Each member receives an Annual Report and the opportunity to propose people to stand for the Executive Committee . |
| 12 | Educational or entertainment wise , whatever way you take it , Wilf wants people to unwind with the team . |
| 13 | A disembodied voice came over the amplifiers instructing people to move outside the ropes . |
| 14 | A spokesman for the Department of the Environment said people living in the Ards Council area could pay the price for the motion , proposed at last week 's council meeting . |
| 15 | Does not he think that we are a bad example to tell people to act through the United Nations when we as a Government have failed to do so ? |
| 16 | The leaflets urge people to vote for the party 's Darlington candidate Dr Donald Clarke , claiming the BNP is the only party which can help Britain by ending ‘ a tide of immigration ’ . |
| 17 | Moslem leaders urged people to assemble on the site to prevent them . |
| 18 | You may want another approach to get people to sign on the dotted line . |
| 19 | To help them expand the herd further , the Russells now operate a ‘ Sponsor A Pig ’ scheme on their farm to enable people to pay for the upkeep of a chosen pig . |
| 20 | Police believe people driving along the busy Old Wolverton Road on Wednesday night may have seen something , and last night they carried out random checks on cars in the area . |
| 21 | Militaristic fascism in the 1930s is seen as the inevitable outcome of an increasing use of nationalistic ideals to force people to conform to the goals of independence through industrialization . |
| 22 | And both these tours enable people to go round the house on their own . |
| 23 | Taste is then seen principally as the cause of ‘ classism ’ , which can be defined as the kind of distaste the middle and upper classes feel for the vulgar in fun fairs , cheap commodities , artificial copies , or lack of style , and the contempt working people feel for the pretentious , cold and degenerate middle and upper classes . |
| 24 | ‘ I totally accept that what you need is the ability to get people to believe in the vision that you put forward of the company , to accept it and to be willing to work towards it . |
| 25 | No company stops people going to the toilet . |
| 26 | That wretched obsession with time which was a hallmark of my own age had not yet set in ; there were not even railway timetables to make people conform to the clock . |
| 27 | There was just a risk , however minimal , that the Iranian Embassy had people watching at the main passenger termini . |