Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] other [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 31 | At yesterday 's tree planting Mrs Frank thanked the pupils for their commitment to the community in doing something which benefited other people now and in the future . |
| 32 | But nobody wanted other people to know about it , be embarrassed . |
| 33 | Do you slow other people down by driving in the rush hour ? |
| 34 | When I 'm working with people on an evaluation or discussing evaluation in general , one of the major items of discussion always is , how can you consult other people , how can you get them involved ? |
| 35 | Those I 'm not interested in producing reports and publications out of evaluation studies , I 'm interested in affecting the situation and affecting it to the mutual satisfaction of the people involved in it , and in fact when we 're when I 'm working with people on an evaluation , or discussing evaluation in general , one of the major items of our discussion always is how can you consult other people , how can you get them involved ? |
| 36 | ‘ Comment : When you make other people laugh , you defend yourself against them taking you too seriously . |
| 37 | Alone , she smelled other people 's coffee , other people 's cakes . |
| 38 | We end by looking at how you embed other people 's words into your own writing , in the form of paraphrase and quotation . |
| 39 | Now make a second list under the heading Inner/Outer Face — how do you think other people ( friends , family , people you work with ) see you ? |
| 40 | Would you eat other people 's leftovers ? |
| 41 | I am someone who needs other people all the time |
| 42 | The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower . |
| 43 | When you want other people to do things for you , then style should be polite and you may need to persuade them to co-operate . |
| 44 | If you are unemployed or actively looking to change your job you will increase your chances immeasurably if you let other people know and make a positive effort to follow up any leads you receive . |
| 45 | I think you deserve other excesses. , |
| 46 | Erm , good point , she did er , give them letters and she told other people to contribute , she erm , she at one stage ask everybody what they , what the record was . |
| 47 | You attack other people 's status . |
| 48 | ‘ And for all the way she bullied other people , she 's always been under that fellow 's thumb and so has Dympna . ’ |
| 49 | This month is different because I am asking you to help other people . |
| 50 | It helps you understand other people 's tasks , avoid problems and keep in mind that crucial overview I spoke of earlier . |
| 51 | It , it 's just a question of I suppose whether you do it or you get other people to do it or or what . |
| 52 | While it is not difficult to learn the techniques necessary to enable you to hypnotize other people , the real test of skill and acquired knowledge comes in knowing how to help them deal with their problems once you have done so . |
| 53 | That way you hear other people 's views and can prepare argument and reason which take them into consideration . |
| 54 | It 's people like that who get other people killed on the roads ! |
| 55 | wheat or barley or anything connected and you find other people who are walking around relatively independently and you find people who are walking around slowly |
| 56 | So again can you see you have other people to consider if you 've partners , but that 's one of the difficulties of having a partner , but then again think , if you do n't have a partner , that 's worse cos you 've nobody to communicate with , nobody to shout at , nobody to organize or organize you , er nobody ready made to go out with , you 've got it all to do yourself because your number one requirement when you 're left on your own is to get the company and the activity , whereas if you , if you are er living with a person then at least a certain amount of that is ready to hand . |
| 57 | ‘ And I know what they say about people who invite other people out to dinner and then spend the whole time trying to depress them and ruin their lives . ’ |
| 58 | BT are damn stupid and charge too much for using their networks , so when you use other people 's passwords you are probably going to be ripping off a company like ICI or even BT . ’ |
| 59 | She knew other people in the company were responsible for that . |
| 60 | You loathed it when you saw other people behaving like this and yet you could no more control it in yourself than you could any other automatic physical reflex . |