Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] other people " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't want to see other people . |
| 2 | Well he has done other people 's . |
| 3 | I want to help other people now . |
| 4 | Think how often , say in a meeting or discussion , you have a point of view that you want to persuade other people to agree with or adopt . |
| 5 | And she has adapted other people 's work : her dramatisation of Anne Fine 's Goggle-Eyes is currently showing on BBC2 . |
| 6 | The reason we want to adopt other people 's beliefs is that we know that everyone wants their own beliefs to be true : because , as we 've seen , truth is what makes our own beliefs useful to us in the way I described earlier , by making our actions succeed in fulfilling our desires . |
| 7 | Children often want to protect other people and for this reason they may be reluctant to ask questions . |
| 8 | I make this declaration because one of my aims in this discussion is to show that we do not need to share other people 's beliefs in order to understand them sympathetically : we can see the sense in beliefs even when we are convinced they are based upon false premisses . |
| 9 | We think that retributivists and denunciationists are right to insist that there is no justification for punishing someone who has not deliberately and wrongfully broken a just law and thereby exercised a freedom to which they are not entitled ( because to do so has diminished other people 's freedom or has threatened to do so ) . |
| 10 | I hope all these very pretty sentiments about not being strong enough to stand watching other people doing things in the war are just part of a passing phase ; or maybe it 's these ‘ books of a higher nature ’ … but I never credited you with being able to talk such utter balls . |
| 11 | He held her quite tightly , and tried to prevent other people from banging into her . |
| 12 | On board ship he invariably tried to hoodwink other people , even a cabin boy , into paying for his sherry . |
| 13 | It does n't explain why , when I want to tell other people the truth , I want them to believe what I believe . |
| 14 | He may use a type of emotional blackmail against you and other people close to him , by constantly demanding attention but refusing to allow other people to perform necessary chores for him , on the grounds that ‘ you do it better ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ You may suspect that judges share the common human failing of wanting to tell other people what they ought to do to lay down the law . |
| 16 | We tend to challenge other people 's information but very rarely our own . |
| 17 | And , in fact , at the airport standing at Mrs Goreng 's side — me , this time , already returned , waiting to greet other people arriving , the emissaries of the greater world — yours truly did n't understand the deception for some time . |
| 18 | ‘ But at least what we can not sell is going to help other people overseas . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't know why you 're surprised , when you seem to expect other people to be naïve enough to remain blind to what you 're trying to do , ’ Maria flared edgily , thinking of Cavell especially . |
| 20 | Mum would have none of this : she was not going to do other people 's dirty washing and she stayed at the fish shop all the war years . |
| 21 | If you are to get the best from our book , you must keep buying other people 's books also , and hoard them as a precious collection . |
| 22 | Oh God , I do n't know how all the hair , how hairdressers could stick doing other people 's ha , I think your i , your own is so much easier to do because you ac , you do it your own way . |
| 23 | ‘ You 've got to consider other people , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Do n't forget that if you are going to quote other people at length , you have to check on whether you 're going to be in breach of copyright , you have to be careful how to quote things , and do n't forget that if you are actually quoting you need to give some indication of where the quotation comes from and make and check out that that 's all right , either by getting permission or , or actually giving , there 's a certain degree of flexibility . |
| 25 | On having ideals , like as you grow older , I mean you 're quite an ancient person already , within the next ten years you 'll have to choose the sort of lifestyle you want and you really have to choose as well whether you 're going to involve other people in it for good or for |
| 26 | ‘ The positive benefits could be almost purely social , such as getting to know other people with a degree of common interest . |
| 27 | Notice there immediately , when we 're frightened we like to have other people around us . |
| 28 | But many places hate importing other people 's rubbish . |
| 29 | ‘ You do n't want to spoil other people 's fun . ’ |
| 30 | And she 's got quite enough grandchildren without having to borrow other people 's spare babies . " |