Example sentences of "[to-vb] people [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a bit embarrassing to come staggering out of the mist , with a purple face , eyes lost in swollen , battered tissue , gasping for breath , to find people wandering around the path in cardigans and slacks . |
| 2 | Er y do you find it difficult to find people to look after the children , or is it just that you , you would n't want to go out ? |
| 3 | There should be a stockpile of sandbags to help people cope with the floods . |
| 4 | The readings and music were designed to help people reflect on the goodness of God 's creation and our responsibility to be stewards of the harvest . |
| 5 | The grants aim to help people live in the community as independently as possible . |
| 6 | And it gives us an excuse to let people know about the River Thames . |
| 7 | The good , sturdy , private sector alternative would have been to leave people waiting in the rain . |
| 8 | More people are travelling than ever before and a complex and thriving industry has grown up to enable people to move round the world with comparative ease and speed . |
| 9 | To help them expand the herd further , the Russells now operate a ‘ Sponsor A Pig ’ scheme on their farm to enable people to pay for the upkeep of a chosen pig . |
| 10 | Each member receives an Annual Report and the opportunity to propose people to stand for the Executive Committee . |
| 11 | Militaristic fascism in the 1930s is seen as the inevitable outcome of an increasing use of nationalistic ideals to force people to conform to the goals of independence through industrialization . |
| 12 | ‘ The British just wanted to move whole industrial sites , whereas I did not want to force people to move from the South Bronx . |
| 13 | You used to get people writing into the Liverpool Echo saying , ‘ Who 's this Martian walking round town . ’ |
| 14 | and in the summer when they were thirty nine P it 's to get people to go in the shop really |
| 15 | And er , one way to , to get people to stay on the land is to introduce some sort of , what we might call market disciplines , if that was n't such a dirty word , er , into the government , the government sector where there are clear inefficiencies . |
| 16 | ‘ I totally accept that what you need is the ability to get people to believe in the vision that you put forward of the company , to accept it and to be willing to work towards it . |
| 17 | We feel called to help to equip people to function in the mission or ministry God has called them to . |
| 18 | Not to talk about their loss but to have people to go to the pub , cinema , even on holiday with . |
| 19 | A governing body with a delegated budget will be able to stop people working at the school . |
| 20 | The posts stuck into the rock to your right as you ascend are markers for winter to stop people going off the edge ; they also double as abseil posts for a quick escape route . |
| 21 | Building the steps into the patio create a stairwell , so provision has to be made to prevent people stepping over the side and into the stairwell accidentally . |
| 22 | A small memorial garden has been planted to commemorate Mr Lee , and a small fence erected to prevent people trampling on the flowers . |
| 23 | Their task is to draw their group out , and to make people talk in the way that will prove most useful . |
| 24 | That wretched obsession with time which was a hallmark of my own age had not yet set in ; there were not even railway timetables to make people conform to the clock . |