Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] people [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In holding court they reinforced a traditional hierarchy and determined its order by giving titles and decorations and by receiving or excluding people according to the standards of the crown … |
| 2 | Mr Alton — a Catholic and fanatical anti-abortionist — said : ‘ While this policy remains intact I will not be able to fight for or recommend people to vote for the Liberal Democrats . ’ |
| 3 | So I thought I 'd wait a year or two and let people get into the techno thing and get used to being more receptive to what it is , as opposed to what it was in ‘ 86 , when nobody knew what the term was and everybody was scared of technology . |
| 4 | And they got the survey going , and they got enough people to volunteer to go round and interviewing people living in the flats , to get all the information that was required . |
| 5 | So there 's no chance of getting rid of all these coaches and getting people to walk round the er the guided tours and stuff like that ? |
| 6 | Ginny waited for a bus and watched people darting along the pavements and in and out of shops . |
| 7 | Mr Badran , a former intelligence chief , has bowed to public pressure to bring in democratic reforms and investigate people blamed for the country 's economic crisis . |
| 8 | Pliny intended to try and evacuate people living on the coast immediately beneath the volcano , in the area which is now Torre del Greco , but as his galley approached the coast it was showered with hot ashes and sizeable lumps of pumice from the volcano . |
| 9 | Their task is to draw their group out , and to make people talk in the way that will prove most useful . |
| 10 | Not to talk about their loss but to have people to go to the pub , cinema , even on holiday with . |