Example sentences of "people [vb base] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The overweight people tend to eat in a non-stop motion . |
| 2 | ‘ Many people tend to specialise in a certain topic such as sport or pop music but I concentrate on general knowledge . ’ |
| 3 | Not because I 've tapped it into the word processor so many times — though that would be reason enough — but because once it is uttered even the most sensible , humane people tend to react in a disturbing , almost totalitarian , way . |
| 4 | Not because I 've tapped it into the word processor so many times — though that would be reason enough — but because once it is uttered even the most sensible , humane people tend to react in a disturbing , almost totalitarian , way . |
| 5 | It is interesting how often people get locked into a disagreeing ‘ spiral ’ where one disagreement breeds another which , in turn , breeds another and so on . |
| 6 | What is more , because the earnings they thereby achieve can be higher than those of regular employees , some people choose to work on a temporary rather than a permanent basis . |
| 7 | People do live in a certain fear of him and anxiety about how he 'll respond to anything done up there in Inniskeen . |
| 8 | Many young people take living with a current girl or boyfriend for granted . |
| 9 | Davison 's manager Tommy Conroy said last night : ‘ Benichou 's people have asked for an extra couple of weeks and , although I 'll have to discuss it with John first , I think we 'll agree . |
| 10 | In the West at least people have identified with a threatened world and the pressure groups have been the first instruments of that identification . |
| 11 | Some young people have died as a direct or indirect result of sniffing glue or other solvents . |