Example sentences of "get other people " in BNC.

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1 One year later she and her husband were expressing their thanks to the Home Support Project for helping them to go on looking after Mrs Cummings at home , and said that although it was still a strain it was ‘ nowhere near as hard as it has been , now that we 've got other people to help us ’ .
2 She 's got other people to do all that for her .
3 tend to be like , you do n't watch your own when you 've got other people 's to watch
4 ‘ I should n't really haff talked to a stranger like that , ’ she thought , as she hurried back through the wood , ‘ especially a tramp , but if people drop paper about they really ought to be told , because they get other people into trouble .
5 It 's people like that who get other people killed on the roads !
6 It , it 's just a question of I suppose whether you do it or you get other people to do it or or what .
7 So , she 's very keen , so she 's coming in quite a bit erm , over the first half term and she hopes that 'll continue during the year , not particularly with just the year eight people but maybe get other people to involve themselves as well .
8 Barry Cryer and Willie Rushton disgrace themselves with the kind of behaviour that gets other people put into homes .
9 They 're always going on about how much Shrimpy gets other people involved and ca n't stick up for himself are n't they ?
10 Much of the communication we do at work is concerned with building personal integrity and credibility , with getting other people to accept opinions and advice and then to act on it .
11 So we had this idea of getting other people to buy it with us . ’
12 This identification and sense of hope are technically possible in the home situation or in hospital but here is a serious risk that family members or medical and nursing staff will , by their own concerned actions intended to help the sufferer to eat , actually thereby enable the addictive disease to continue : there are few hinge the disease likes more than getting other people ( rather than the primary sufferer ) to take responsibility .
13 Usually , I know exactly what I want , but it is much better if you can get other people to do it and let them take the credit .
14 I could n't get other people to see the point of me .
15 If you 're lacking in self- confidence you may , do n't want , you do n't wan na get other people 's views and meekness impose them .
16 It 's about er ten years ago nearly that I er stopped being a teacher and when I was a teacher er up having to do assemblies er it was always something that I did with great reluctance and er was er pleased if I could get other people to do it er it seems rather odd then er that I 've actually said yes coming to do er an assembly here today and it 's perhaps a sign of mental instability on my part .
17 ‘ We will have to get other people to write for us because it 's going to be more than 100 pages . ’
18 He likes to get other people — usually me , of course — to do the dirty work : make the awkward telephone call , tell the gardener who comes for four hours a week that he has ruined the asparagus bed , speak to Tom 's teacher about his appalling arithmetic .
19 We appear to be selfish , cynical creatures ; our greatest ambition in relation to rules of behaviour is to get other people to obey them so that our own cheating is even more productive .
20 I try and make women 's history clearer , because obviously they 've done history A level so they 've probably learnt about wars and all the male sort of things , so what women were doing and thinking and the way in which that has been suppressed ; as much as possible I like to teach by not putting very much of what I think across but trying to get other people to produce it … also encouraging them to share as an experience and personal responses and talking about things one would n't normally talk about in the department , the emotional side of things , in quotes ‘ irrational ’ , ‘ intuitive ’ and all of that , and valuing that … try and make it a space where people can say whatever they want to say ; I suppose value things that would not be valued elsewhere .
21 his he might be able to get other people from where I 've you know from the department here who are also interested in that .
22 We had to get other people to finish off the work . ’
23 And it 's very difficult to get other people to do it like you want it .
24 Throughout that period I 've canvassed for the Labour Party , I 've campaigned for the Labour Party , I 've argued for the Labour Party and one of the items that made me join the Labour Party and one of the items I got other people to join the Labour Party was that Labour was a mass Party , because it consisted of hundreds of thousands of individual members and it consisted of millions of trade unionists .
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