Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] other people " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ahmed : When you are Black and gay and you open yourself up to the realities and contradictions inherent in this combined identity , it provides a better basis for understanding other people 's experience , both intellectually and intuitively . |
| 2 | Wainfleet went on as the drinks arrived : ‘ All sorts of folk have their reasons for wanting other people 's private business , or their own , published . |
| 3 | However , both tactics are ways of using other people 's ideas as a stimulus for producing ideas yourself . |
| 4 | So he stood for ten minutes at the window watching soldiers tossing bundles of equipment into the gurg-ling FV 432s parked around the parade ground and feeling the deep contentment of seeing other people working very hard very early in the day . |
| 5 | So we had this idea of getting other people to buy it with us . ’ |
| 6 | We are not in the business of expecting other people who can ill afford it to pick up the cost of a single person 's discount for the rich . |
| 7 | THE Government has a clever knack of stealing other people 's clothes , never more so than in its espousal of ‘ active citizenship ’ as a desirable virtue . |
| 8 | Since the politician is blamed for what is not his fault , he could n't survive unless he devised methods of blaming other people for what is his fault . |
| 9 | Unhelpful behaviours are those which hinder you from achieving your objective and/or which run the risk of giving other people a bad impression of you . |
| 10 | Shedding tears is a way of letting other people know that you are in need of comfort . |
| 11 | For the Right-Ons , many of whom had committed the cardinal mistake of taking other people 's newspapers too seriously , it was inconceivable that this diet of trash should be allowed to succeed . |
| 12 | We do not have ’ joyriding ’ in Northern Ireland ; rather death , destruction and tragedy are the result of young folk indulging in the habit of taking other people 's vehicles and running around in them for all sorts of purposes . |
| 13 | Do n't make the fatal mistake of assuming other people think as logically as you do , or even hear what 's said to them . |
| 14 | Religious bigots have often employed the cunning device of converting other people 's heroes into villains , to suit their own purposes . |
| 15 | And one way of negating other people is to treat them as if they are not there . |
| 16 | As a means of controlling other people 's behaviour , it meets the essential criterion of power , but is largely unanalysed . |
| 17 | Hence , the leaden delivery of some Euro-platitudes , by a woman who really ought to be able to do a better job of reading other people 's speeches after 40 years of doing little else , carries more political import than anything else that has been said about Europe since the election . |
| 18 | We know from years of experience that we are not capable of reading other people 's problems as well as they are . |
| 19 | ‘ Then I thought we 'd set up the nice Mr Sorley and his mobile Fax van and photograph him in the act of reading other people 's mail . ’ |
| 20 | One belonged to a family with a long history of ill-health ; another was a slattern with a fondness for the bottle ; yet another had a family who had a habit of making other people 's homes their own . |
| 21 | Billy Bragg has the unusual gift of making other people 's songs his own by the simple expedient of singing them . |
| 22 | The sheer pleasure of discovering other people 's domestic arrangement stirred in her . |
| 23 | To lead him work , instead of borrowing other people 's in the yard . |
| 24 | Before having the HIV antibody test , a person should consider the implications of telling other people about the test and its result . |
| 25 | Develop will be erm , shown , but it is not about running it 's about medieval Shrewsbury , many towns have these , the Yorvik one 's been spectacularly successful , and has been copied in places like Canterbury for those that saw Songs of Praise last night , with even , erm , it is evident that this will be a new visitor attraction for the town with a generation of jobs , permanent jobs in , in that er , facility , it will improve the erm , appearance of main entrance into the town centre , very important in terms of attracting other people in the future , unfortunately the Borough Council have n't quite got enough money , or they tell us . |
| 26 | In the home you 're a wife , a mother , a daughter , an aunt , a grandmother , a niece , but you 're only defined in relationship to somebody else and your function is mainly one of servicing other people , of creating a context in which other people live . |
| 27 | Erm , because er , it does seem that erm , though we 're not talking about our own fuel , we 're talking about testing other people 's fuel , and erm , there 's an , it 's an arcane point about district councils . |
| 28 | The distinction is not clean and complete , partly because the umbrella has some social significance and is not customary everywhere , partly because some behaviour , like avoiding other people when wanting to be alone , takes account of the behaviour of others without exactly being social . |
| 29 | Much of the communication we do at work is concerned with building personal integrity and credibility , with getting other people to accept opinions and advice and then to act on it . |
| 30 | We 've always in the West used the term Russian nationalist as one of abuse , er and that it seems to me as , because it 's always in the past been associated with empire , Russian nationalists in practice have oppressed other people , but after all why should the Russians not be patriotic just as the British as er a citizen or a Frenchman can be patriotic , er provided that that does n't go with oppressing other people . |