Example sentences of "people [vb base] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people make do with a cup of coffee which , although it may taste good , does little to support you until lunchtime . |
| 2 | ‘ Most people tend to gather at the track and do the group session , without even stopping to think what the training effect is doing to their body , or how they are going to progress next week , or the week after . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ These are more the sorts of descriptions that people tend to use about the experience of working for me . ’ |
| 4 | Having become established , people tend to work within the tradition for reasons which are never properly articulated . |
| 5 | ‘ We are treading very cautiously because it is a very vexed question , and people tend to react from the gut , rather than the head , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Current behaviour depends not just on current and expected prices , but also on the quantity constraints that people expect to face in the future . |
| 7 | Three hundred people say hang round the bar and say , conservation board I 've had lots of letters , well so have I , we 'll get get through them they might cause trouble . |
| 8 | She said : ‘ Too many people want to go to the festival and we have just not got the space to accommodate them . ’ |
| 9 | Chairman , the last speech was really explaining what I want to get over the fact that so many people want to talk on the issue and to complicate the issue . |
| 10 | You would n't let me turn the telly on which is what most people want to do on a Saturday evening , off |
| 11 | People want to save in a currency that does not depreciate every year as much as the pound has done over many years . |
| 12 | Because of the size of the data this is a large commitment to space which is only worthwhile where a large number of people want to look at a lot of the data . |
| 13 | Certainly the request of staff then could turn into of the panel erm but but I think at the same time if people want to look at the structure so that they have a complete view of the structural organisation |
| 14 | Now plenty of people are carers by choice , and people want to look after the people who need care in their family , but th i , it 's a problem is n't it ? |
| 15 | The second point is on correspondence , I 'm absolutely certain that when a member of public writes in to any department , not necessarily highway , he expects and needs an immediate response , now I know you have , you have started the acknowledgement of our system , but I think it 's , it does n't go far enough , an acknowledgement card that simply says the thing is received and is receiving attention , needs to then indicate the individual to whom that matter has been passed for attention and that leads me to the third point and I think the general complaint on the public is that local government is seen as faceless people and I think we have to get in our mind to name people within our department , there 's not one mention about it in our promise , I think we need , unless I 've not read it , but I think , I think we , yes , but I think we need to mention people by name , senior people within the department who will respond to particular things and certainly where public comes into contact within the offices we must get around to wearing a name badge who says who that person is , people want to relate to a person and I think we can do that if we try . |
| 16 | The Republic 's Foreign Affairs Minister Dick Spring said today the new generation of Irish people want to escape from the shackles of the past . |
| 17 | Another old argument is that ‘ manly sports ’ help to keep people fit to fight for the Crown if necessary , whereas fights which involve maiming rob the Crown of able-bodied men for the armed forces . |
| 18 | And it 's frightening because I know people die waiting for a transplant . |
| 19 | That gives us two hours to get there and two hours to prepare before Mait 's people begin to arrive for the ceremony . ’ |
| 20 | Now I appreciate that some people seem to object to the words public protection , erm I 'm not certain why bearing in mind you have a public protection committee . |
| 21 | However , although people seem to agree on a hierarchy of symbolic rewards , this apparent consensus is not the sum of people 's personal evaluations regarding the relative importance of different jobs , but a reproduction of what they have been socialised into accepting and which , when asked , they reproduce as though this sort of thing is a matter of fact . |
| 22 | If you 're really rocking and rolling in the art department and you 're allowing some of the experiments to see their way into print , even if they 're not so , they do n't have that slick veneer that people seem to want in the marketing department , progress results and the rawness helps and the thing that makes Jack Stoffagers pages so wonderful is that they are unfiltered , you have the feeling that it 's the printer talking to you , determining something that he 's read , you know , he wants you to read . |
| 23 | You know , i i you need to be full to fill up that area because well , you know yourself , people like to stand around the bar do n't they ? |
| 24 | Once people get hooked on a show you have them . ’ |
| 25 | I was in Bristol recently and I went to a bar there which is packed every night people pay to go into a club to go in there . |
| 26 | The former view would see education as one of the most important means by which black people become integrated into the mainstream of white British life . |
| 27 | This means , says Jose , that people become tied to the drug culture , not only through fear but also through gratitude . |
| 28 | I have certainly heard of it happening in the present day , but the old methods are dying out as people become alienated from the countryside they live in . |
| 29 | People keep running into the back of my Range Rover with boring regularity . |
| 30 | How many people try to compensate for a sense of inadequacy or restore their personal confidence by going and buying themselves something whenever they feel miserable ? |