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Example sentences of "it [verb] people " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I find newspaper bingo even more repulsive than the cinema-hall type , because it encourages people to read newspapers for the wrong reason .
2	I think it encourages people .
3	Do n't place a mirror over an open fire , it encourages people of all ages to stand too close .
4	Using a democratic structure of rotating the roles of therapist and patient , it encourages people to express previous hurts in ways they might have done as children if that had been allowed .
5	So it encourages people even more does n't it ?
6	It isolates the experience of misery and it domesticates people 's anger .
7	‘ I can see how it got people 's backs up , ’ says Lesley .
8	‘ It got people to sit down and think about these things .
9	‘ So many people agree with others for the sake of it but Eric ca n't do that and he has to tell the truth and say what he 's feeling even if that is ‘ no ’ and it upsets people .
10	‘ I 've always said so because of the problems it causes and the way it upsets people .
11	It points people to Jesus
12	The welfare system , runs this view , makes things worse because it discourages people from working and rewards undesirable behaviour .
13	‘ I mean it impresses people . ’
14	It asked people to join ‘ a growing movement for action on the greatest issue of our times ’ .
15	In how many shapes does it make people shew themselves !
16	In Sir Hugh Casson 's words , ‘ It made people want things to be better and to believe they could be . ’
17	Thirdly , it made people aware of the effect affluence was having on their environment .
18	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 .
19	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 .
20	As one of the group put it : ‘ It made people think about what they wanted to do for the whole year . ’
21	It made people go crazy .
22	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 .
23	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 .
24	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 ?
25	The problem with ballet is it alienates people because it is culture .
26	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 .
27	If it covers people who were clients before or who could become clients afterwards , it will be void .
28	It has people in it , with lives to live .
29	This is the famous ‘ baby boom ’ , shared more or less by all Western industrial countries ( not Eastern Europe or Japan ) , which has now produced almost as many books as it has people .
30	Similar exercises have been undertaken by other er governments and there 's a tremendous contrast with the way those governments have actually sought to do this , with our own government , erm no publicity whatsoever has appeared yet and again I offer the minister the chance to tell us at some later point , what the government is prepared to do to exert itself on this matter and to tell us indeed whether it wants people to register erm it is n't particularly clear whether in fact this is part of er some idea that the government has that people should n't register and I think that the minister needs to be very clear about this so that people get the message outside , because nine and a half million people did n't vote , even in the last general election .