Example sentences of "people [verb] [not/n't] [adv] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | This had been quite difficult and the Gnomes had scratched their heads a good deal , because , although people did not openly refer to it , everyone knew that Flame 's father was Fael-Inis and it had meant a lot of worrisome discussions as to whether this fact ought to be openly acknowledged , or whether it might be discourteous to draw attention to it . |
2 | People did not suddenly rush into the shops to spend more money on books because the Government said that staff had to be paid more . |
3 | Well for instance a lot of people did n't even bother to erm make the kitchen floor into anything reasonable , but we did , we , we got some very good , very heavy |
4 | The most surprising thing is if somebody turns round and asks you , like they did last year , ‘ Why is the sky blue ? ’ and a thing a lot of people do n't even think of , you end up being able to explain — I think that 's the appeal of it . |
5 | there 's very few of you here belong to it , I ca n't see your badges on , we have n't got ours on at the moment and a lot of people do n't even believe in Greenpeace . |
6 | There are a lot of archives , but there are even more archives than you imagine there are because there are actually erm a huge number of archives in private houses and castles in Germany that are not public archives , and a lot of people do n't even know about these . |
7 | erm it seemed so disappointing to me that I mean we go to the bother of producing what a fifty odd page telephone directory and people do n't even look at it |
8 | ‘ People do n't normally talk about science on that show . |
9 | Most people do n't actually go into things as deeply as we do . |
10 | ‘ People do n't always want to be serious at lunchtime . |
11 | Yeah but people do n't always want like that . |
12 | People do n't always think of . |
13 | Yeah I mean people do n't always agree on those things |
14 | I mean people do n't always agree on what evidence means ; they do n't always agree on what is the best thing to do , erm and I 've developed the idea that it 's possible to do an evaluation that I like to call divergent in the sense that there might be several different things that one might do as a result of it . |
15 | Only when I lost my temper , pointing that people do n't always die during officer hours , did they offer to find someone . |
16 | ‘ Look , I do n't want to talk about love , women , past marriages , present marriages , family , stuff that normal people do n't readily talk about … |
17 | that erm , people do n't necessarily go on this , but er , it 's probably more or less typical of rural areas , where , where people just do n't feel that there 's any hope here . |
18 | The reason that people do not generally look into alternative credit terms in any detail certainly is not that they feel pushed willy-nilly into one particular type of credit . |
19 | People do not readily admit to feeling stigmatised . |
20 | This may be a source of embarrassment ; people do not usually meet for social or business purposes dressed in this way . |
21 | However , people do not usually live in a state of high intellectual awareness about their every action , but simply get on with living . |
22 | Bereaved people do not always need to be ‘ done unto ’ . |
23 | So , well before we get on to any issues to do with the structural poverty of the Third World , maintained by the wealth extracting efforts and arrangements of our Western world , we can surely see why quite a few people do not really believe in recovery through economic growth and consumption and we need to ask whether we ought to want it anyway , but people in the Tory Party and in the Labour Party in the City with a capital C and the trade unions with a Capital T and a U go on talking as if our goal must be jobs and recovery in the same old way , technologized , computerized and skillerlized of course with strong dashes of management insights and so on |