Example sentences of "[art] [det] people [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then they had to brace themselves to pass the few people standing along the church wall . |
| 2 | The gamble is that the more people know about the workings of behaviour the more they will use it skilfully to benefit themselves and others . |
| 3 | The more people complained about the Neath forwards ' haircuts , the less inclined the Neath forwards were to change them ; the more people complained about Neath 's rugby , the less Neath were inclined to change . |
| 4 | Prosecuting uneducated deaf people with no speech , and accepting what they said in their defence in those days was however a different matter altogether from allowing the same people to go into the witness box and testify against other people . |
| 5 | What I mean by tradition involves all those habitual actions , habits and customs , from the most significant religious rite to our conventional way of greeting a stranger , which represent the blood kinship of ‘ the same people living in the same place ’ . |
| 6 | A few people sat on the floor ( no chairs in the drama studio ) and jumped straight to their feet again as an outbreak of jeering laughter told them that they 'd got it wrong . |
| 7 | ‘ Maybe in the short term it is an advantage to a few people working in the car industry but it only encourages more people to generate more pollution . ’ |
| 8 | There were , a few people stood around the main entrance but I |
| 9 | There were only a few people left in the dining-room by that time , two elderly men earnestly swapping fishing stories over their brandy , a young couple holding hands fondly under the table , and a solitary ancient in a leather-elbowed tweed jacket , reading the evening paper . |