Example sentences of "[prep] [num] people [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opening ceremony was managed for us by Cosmo PR in Tokyo and a specially selected audience of 120 people came to the event including around 70 customers from the four business areas represented at KITEC . |
| 2 | He arrives in Massillon , Ohio , to discover the entire town of 30,000 people preparing for the big football game the next day . |
| 3 | Of 2,000 people interviewed by the BBC , over 90 per cent had heard of the CAB , and of these , a quarter had contacted one . |
| 4 | Her friend , Christina Carter — whose sister , Daniella , 15 , was one of three people killed in the blast — required an hour 's surgery . |
| 5 | His removal , reportedly suggested by Gen. Pinochet himself after an internal army inquiry , was accompanied by the arrest of three people connected with the case and the placing of a restriction order on another six . |
| 6 | The young people were from June 22 demanding the release of three people arrested following the erection of a barricade on June 21 . |
| 7 | In the 11 weeks up to March 20 , a total of 46 people died on the snow in Austria . |
| 8 | Your estimate of 707 people killed by the Basque terrorist group , ETA , in 1968–90 is too high by at least 100 ( December 1st ) . |
| 9 | A total of 11,604,418 people went to the polls , representing a turnout of 93.4 per cent of the electorate of 12,426,443 , and 11,541,155 valid votes were cast . |
| 10 | Set in the late 1950's — at the end of post-war rationing and at the beginning of an era of new affluence — this new production of A TASTE OF HONEY , an off-beat comedy drama , brings to the stage the lives of five people living in the Manchester area . |
| 11 | Fritz Moeri , one of five people charged in the trial of company officials which began on 18 April , has told New Scientist that the disaster would have been impossible if the system he built in 1970 had not been modified and if ‘ fashionable ’ exhaust valves had not been added at the insistence of company management . |
| 12 | Four years in the making , the three-day event had itself been organised by a team of 15 people based in the US , Hong Kong , South Africa , Brussels , Leeds and Manchester , all communicating by electronic mail ( so-called ‘ e-mail ’ , in which messages typed into a personal computer are sent by telephone line to a big , central computer that stores them until they are called up by one or more addressees using their own computers ) . |
| 13 | Lt.-Col. Désiré " Desi " Bouterse on Nov. 20 resigned as C.-in-C. of the Army , Early reports suggested that he had opposed a government decision to commemorate the deaths of 15 people murdered by the army in December 1982 [ see pp. 31950-51 ] . |
| 14 | A total of 14 people died on the piste including four casualties of the chairlift accident in Carinthia and four heart attacks . |
| 15 | The trial of two people accused of the murder of a man described as a police informer has been halted on the orders of the judge . |
| 16 | A total of 440 people died in the two aircraft bombings . |
| 17 | Caretaker Hankin , one of 20 people to apply for the manager 's job at Feethams , stormed : ‘ Those two players are the last I want to sell , because they will be forming the basis of next season 's side . |
| 18 | De Klerk announced as " a gesture " towards the implementation of the report the release ( implemented on June 9 ) of 48 people described by the ANC as political prisoners . |
| 19 | The HSE ( Labour Research 1988b ) analysed the deaths of 739 people killed in the construction industry between 1981–85 . |
| 20 | They were released the following day when a crowd of 4000 people gathered outside the police station . |
| 21 | On July 19 , a total of 19 people sheltering at the Czechoslovak embassy surrendered to the authorities . |
| 22 | The family of a man shot dead in a row over a fence have started legal action against two people cleared of the killing . |
| 23 | I was aware of the fact that there had been what seemed like 20 people working in the office and then it was suddenly dwindling down to a skeleton staff . |
| 24 | Last year 's competition , against Frankfurt , was the biggest participation event held in the province , with 107,000 people joining in the fun . |
| 25 | And the overall toll , which includes sectarian murders , shows a similar trend with 46 people dying in the first five months of last year compared to 29 this year . |
| 26 | However we decided that it was worth trying , arranged it for Thursday 22nd June , starting from Craven Arms , and very successful it was , with 29 people coming on the trip . |
| 27 | A disgruntled postman rang up a radio chat show to complain , and found himself spearheading an anti-Florio movement that culminated in 50,000 people marching on the state capitol . |
| 28 | Up to one in seven people complaining about the valuation of their home for the council tax think their property is undervalued , early evidence shows . |
| 29 | On May 7 up to 5,000 people gathered outside the High Court in Lilongwe where Chakufwa Chihana , the trade union leader arrested in April [ see p. 38851 ] , was due to appear . |
| 30 | The UN World Food Programme ( WFP ) estimated that the lives of up to 20,000,000 people depended on the provision of emergency food aid . |