Example sentences of "[verb] people [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm if people are restored to confidence , feel that they are able to travel , that of course reduces the number of people who are going to stay in this country and have their holidays here , and Stan , if I can come back to you , I mean we it is almost arguing against the point that you were making a few moments ago that , you know , you want people to stay in this country . |
| 2 | We want people to come to us and ask us to develop systems to order . ’ |
| 3 | Wiped out by a five-hour flight to a city where riding the subway is an act of hedonism , and where the pollution on the streets works on the brain like speed , driving people scrambling to the summits of New York City 's towers of granite and power . |
| 4 | Several end-of-row seats are removed enabling people to remain in their ‘ chairs beside their partners . |
| 5 | to Sue wanted to point out that er erm how well your staff had er worked on er that what they had done er er all over the town i in some instances er enabling people to get to their rights by you know , taking them to tribunals which is quite er time er er exercise . |
| 6 | Inaccessible public transport systems have meant that a good deal of time and resources have gone towards enabling people to travel to and from meetings . |
| 7 | A disembodied voice came over the amplifiers instructing people to move outside the ropes . |
| 8 | Laws against witchcraft were abolished in 1736 but long after that date Church courts still tried people suspected of witchcraft . |
| 9 | Laws against witchcraft were abolished in 1736 but long after that date Church courts still tried people suspected of witchcraft . |
| 10 | All all packets that we can use to identify I really do need people to talk to me . |
| 11 | Throughout life , a capacity to play , to symbolize , and to have access to the world of fantasy can assist people to come to terms with life . |
| 12 | All this , say people living in the nearby village of Watchfield , make the college a prime terrorist target . |
| 13 | Sometimes say people say to me can you give us |
| 14 | I would argue that in the past we should be doing much more to encourage people to go to and from erm regional airports and I , I think that is important , they do need to be expanded , but a lot of the evidence erm er there 's stacks of evidence which is founded in sort of er exercise is er in fact that there 's not a lot of unreprimand , I mean , I wished that there were . |
| 15 | This deliberate government policy was to encourage people to live in the rural areas and ensure that their income was at least as high as that of the factory worker . |
| 16 | Over the past century , there have been ideological pressures — expressed , among other ways , through public policies — to define what constitutes a ‘ proper ’ family , and to encourage people to live in these units . |
| 17 | The perks are specifically designed to encourage people to invest in their local water authority despite the fact that it is patently obvious that some are not going to be as attractive as others . |
| 18 | Successive Chancellors of the Exchequer have striven to encourage people to invest in pension plans by favouring them with tax concessions — to the point at which they are one of the most attractive and tax-efficient investments you can make . |
| 19 | The government made PEPs tax-free to encourage people to invest in shares . |
| 20 | There has been a very large response to the Council 's campaign to encourage people to apply for a rebate on the community charge . |
| 21 | The editor of Les Colonies , however , seized on this statement , and in an editorial in the very last issue his paper was ever to publish , tried to use it to encourage people to stay in St Pierre . |
| 22 | The government certainly had no money to spare to help the colonies , and this introduced the general rule that English colonies had to cover their own costs , both in the sense that the government of a colony had to raise enough revenue to pay its own bills and in the sense that there were no subsidies to encourage people to stay in a colony where they could not earn their own living . |
| 23 | He warned : ‘ It is much harder to encourage people to travel by public rather than private transport if buses are old , uncomfortable and unreliable . ’ |
| 24 | We will end the deregulation of buses , introduce bus priority measures integrated with new rapid transit systems within a ‘ green light ’ programme designed to encourage people to transfer to public transport . |
| 25 | To encourage people to voyage into the psychic seems about as responsible as the Wright brothers taking day-trippers on their first ever flight — without parachutes ! |
| 26 | Firstly , karateka are not allowed to bring their own coaches with them to training sessions because experience has shown that the presence of other coaches breaks up the training atmosphere , and causes people to separate to far corners instead of remaining together . |
| 27 | A high percentage involved people aged between 17 and 24 . |
| 28 | It 's a bit embarrassing to come staggering out of the mist , with a purple face , eyes lost in swollen , battered tissue , gasping for breath , to find people wandering around the path in cardigans and slacks . |
| 29 | Ideological change apparently is a further element in explaining why it is more common to find people living with relatives in particular historical periods than in others . |
| 30 | Er y do you find it difficult to find people to look after the children , or is it just that you , you would n't want to go out ? |