Example sentences of "people [verb] [to-vb] a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people seemed to have a talent for saying the wrong thing , she thought to herself . |
| 2 | Also , the UK Customs people seem to have a penchant for opening packages with disks in , and whilst I 've never heard of anything going missing from such a package , they never seem to have grasped the idea that magnets and x-rays do n't mix well with floppy disks . |
| 3 | Some people like to use a card for each question at this stage so that it is simple to move questions about as it seems desirable to order and re-order them in the best sequence . |
| 4 | And it was around for centuries before people managed to find a cure for it . |
| 5 | if people need to learn a language for some real purpose , then they learn it . |