Example sentences of "the [det] people [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Then they had to brace themselves to pass the few people standing along the church wall . |
2 | The gamble is that the more people know about the workings of behaviour the more they will use it skilfully to benefit themselves and others . |
3 | The more people complained about the Neath forwards ' haircuts , the less inclined the Neath forwards were to change them ; the more people complained about Neath 's rugby , the less Neath were inclined to change . |
4 | Prosecuting uneducated deaf people with no speech , and accepting what they said in their defence in those days was however a different matter altogether from allowing the same people to go into the witness box and testify against other people . |
5 | What I mean by tradition involves all those habitual actions , habits and customs , from the most significant religious rite to our conventional way of greeting a stranger , which represent the blood kinship of ‘ the same people living in the same place ’ . |