Example sentences of "people just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ People just eat them because they are there . |
| 2 | Mr Bell said : ‘ The people who really matter are the businessmen who make wealth , these people just made money . |
| 3 | ‘ Those people just had something special and we got to know them well , ’ Andrew said . |
| 4 | Nineteen twenty nine , it was in the nineteen thirties when there was the depression people just had not got the money to really provide for the baby as they would do , well they would do now . |
| 5 | When they arrived , showing that the play was a flop , the people just melted away and the waiters removed the champagne . |
| 6 | When yo , people just gather informally , and friends and neighbours and you make music and you sing songs , you tell stories , play instruments , do what you like , eat , drink talk . |
| 7 | The health service which we 've ignored democratic likes of people just appointed . |
| 8 | We started accumulating works of art and people just assumed I was in the business . |
| 9 | No I always sit down and do me work but sometimes people just distract me all the time . |
| 10 | Some people smile when they go past and there 's this woman with a couple of kids over the other side from me , but most people just walk past like they ai n't interested . |
| 11 | And you feel alright but people just go shh ooh ooh past you . |
| 12 | People just go wild and that because there 's nothing to do . |
| 13 | We want people just to go round the floor . ’ |
| 14 | People just keep buying the buggers . |
| 15 | There 's nothing worse than people just spitting out albums ; you get all these mediocre albums that do nothing but take up shelf space . |
| 16 | ‘ People just stopped coming to shop here , and , because we no longer had our two hotels , the number of visitors dropped as well . |
| 17 | So this was a new strange quantum number , and I think really what happened as new quantum numbers became necessary to describe the new types of particles , people just began to think of more sort of strange names like charm and beauty and erm things like this , but they have no real connection with what we normally understand by charm and beauty , they are just quantum numbers . |
| 18 | And people just come here . |
| 19 | I mean I know there 's always an argument , especially here in Oxford , that people just come , look round the colleges and they 're gone again , but having said that some of them must spend some money . |
| 20 | But people just knew . |
| 21 | But I think people just react to what is around them . |
| 22 | People just said that Elsie was the woman who fell into the river and drowned . |
| 23 | But you did sleep with people just to report back on it . |
| 24 | People just turn vicious . |
| 25 | They 're quite nice boys , but those silly people just let them run wild . ’ |
| 26 | We owe it to these people and British Telecom owes it to these people just let them pay for what they use get rid of the standing charge . |
| 27 | It was just I , I went down they played Liverpool in the cup about that era , and the , the wall was pushed down at the Street end but erm the people just spilled on the pitch and I do n't think anyone was really hurt , this happened when they played er Liverpool in the cup a couple of years ago the wall was pushed down at the other end on that occasion , but er there was just one , one person hurt but there was n't anybody very seriously injured as I understand |
| 28 | In EPLF territory there is no money — people just receive what they need to live . |
| 29 | Crucial pre-Christmas Saturday trade was ruined by the scare in Charing Cross Road : people just stayed away . |
| 30 | It 's so repetitive marking your scale and people just lose concentration and I can do this you know and the next minute you you you 've gone up in twos instead of ones . |