Example sentences of "[adv] [det] people [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It never fails to amaze me how little some people know about the fish they are buying , even down to the most basic of aspects . |
| 2 | Both days were a great success and it was good to see so many people looking round the plant and seeing for themselves where our effort is going and what is being achieved . ’ |
| 3 | With so many people pouring into the stations on these occasions , there was always concern about keeping the excursionists disciplined and organized . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't see so many people going in the opposite direction now , so I hope that 's a sign that we 've persuaded a few of them to stay in town and watch their local team . ’ |
| 5 | The condemnation of the figures that the hon. Gentleman has read out is that in those boroughs we need never have had so many liability orders or so many people taken to the courts or threatened with prison if they had not been misled by Labour Members of Parliament and councillors into running up enormous debts . |
| 6 | But there are still many people shocked by the events of the past few days , who never expected the Army to be prepared to launch rocket and artillery attacks on civilian targets . |
| 7 | Job information hardly any people went to the there . |
| 8 | Bath have as many people running off the ball , as many ball-handling forwards , as many backs capable of giving a looped miss-pass as anyone at any level . |
| 9 | The curve illustrates costs per capita ; as more people live in the locality , there is a reduction in the share that each resident pays of the total cost incurred by providing some service level of the good in question . |
| 10 | I hung around deciding what to do and then some people came off the boat . |
| 11 | Unfortunately many people look on the shedding of tears as a sign of weakness . |
| 12 | These disparities are largely attributed to poor educational attainment — too many people leaving at the statutory school leaving age with few or no qualifications , too few continuing their education and too few entering higher education . |
| 13 | The leak could have come from any one of a large number of sources , as far too many people knew about the plans . |
| 14 | There are far too many people looking into the mind of the murderer and not at the agony of mind of the relations of the murdered person . |
| 15 | There are far too many people looking into the minds of the Teddy cosh-boys and not into the minds of the old ladies who have been coshed . |
| 16 | Too many people sitting on the fence , exercising nothing but their asses . |
| 17 | Very many people heard about the riots in the area last year , and heard the authorities ' explanations for them , but this programme attempted to find the root causes of the problems . |
| 18 | Erm I think very many people live in the flats sort of thing , and and they 're going to need rehousing . |
| 19 | Thus between 1900 and 1910 considerably more people migrated to the United States than during the entire period with which this book is concerned . |