Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] other people " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faced with the challenge of being original in this way , some student writers believe that they should copy or adapt other people 's work because it is bound to be of better quality than their own . |
| 2 | The then modish humanity had gone into a violent reaction against the ancient severity , ‘ and might almost be supposed to see in the fact of having lost or squandered other people 's property a peculiar title to indulgence . ‘ |
| 3 | When he saw or heard other people , he slowed to a walk until they were past , then he ran again . |
| 4 | Instead of being eroded , classes intermediate between capital and the manual working class have consistently expanded in size : wage-earners who supervise or control other people 's labour , people in non-manual jobs , and state employees . |
| 5 | However , it sometimes depresses me , and again I 'm expressing a very personal view I guess , that having tried to teach the students the subject as about ideas , they then insist on learning the subject as things to be learnt and then going off and applying their knowledge to new and more expensive ways of killing people or stopping other people killing us . |
| 6 | This is not just a matter of showing that you are not stealing or plagiarising other people 's work . |
| 7 | I was , simply , not prepared to go on with the discomfort of feeling — or knowing other people might feel — that I was in any way neglecting my family . |
| 8 | Given that private conversations between journalists and politicians take place all the time as the former seek their exclusives and the latter seek to further their policies or careers ( or to wreck other people 's ) , it is strangely perverse to ignore perhaps the most authoritative off-the-record source of all , Mr Bernard Ingham . |
| 9 | This is a general problem with copying or paraphrasing other people 's work : your goals are different from theirs , and so the structure of your argument will also be different . |
| 10 | As was seen in Chapter 2 , CAB volunteers expressly state that helping other people is an important part of the job satisfaction of an advice worker . |
| 11 | The danger is when they 're the ones that if they 're the ones that stop other people sorting out their own feelings and emotions erm and I think in the work that I 've done in schools and in other situations following disasters one of the biggest problems has been that those expressing denial or saying that we should be able to cope with this , children are resilient , they do n't have these problems , erm they 've often stopped people getting the help that they need ; often stopped other teachers getting the help that they need . |
| 12 | This identification and sense of hope are technically possible in the home situation or in hospital but here is a serious risk that family members or medical and nursing staff will , by their own concerned actions intended to help the sufferer to eat , actually thereby enable the addictive disease to continue : there are few hinge the disease likes more than getting other people ( rather than the primary sufferer ) to take responsibility . |
| 13 | It assumes that you need to organize it for yourself rather than expecting other people to be responsible for your development . |
| 14 | Barry Cryer and Willie Rushton disgrace themselves with the kind of behaviour that gets other people put into homes . |
| 15 | Generally the reader wants his narrator to be upright , decent , honest , and not prone to the lusts that plague other people — never ourselves . |
| 16 | Rights are a central issue in being assertive ( see page 8 ) , since a decision to be assertive , as opposed to aggressive or submissive , is in effect a decision to stand up for your rights in a way that respects other people 's rights . |
| 17 | The indignity of peering into other people 's intimacies had appalled me , quite overpowering the acquired , accepted knowledge that reading other people 's letters was one of the things that was n't done . |
| 18 | This forces you to scrutinize your own behaviour rather than blame other people . |
| 19 | Sometimes there is , especially when one has to act on one 's beliefs in ways that affect other people . |
| 20 | I hated speaking to large groups of people and normally would have avoided it at all costs , but I found that I had thought so much about this that telling other people was a relief . |
| 21 | No body established by the two parties will do anything outside the law to halt any sell out ; what they will do is to engineer situations and emotions that lead other people to break the law . |
| 22 | Instead of withdrawing and being generally anti-social , as I had been , I began to argue with people — teachers and pupils alike — and to disrupt other people 's activities for the sake of disruption . |
| 23 | If what we look like can influence how we feel about ourselves and influence other people 's attitudes , then let us cash in on it by taking an interest in appearance . |
| 24 | The final events that lead our dieter to break the diet are quite concrete , namely , walking into a café , seeing and smelling the pastries , and seeing other people happily enjoying them . |
| 25 | You 're paying somebody to like you and to encourage other people to like you , which is a bit of a bizarre concept . |
| 26 | I 'd love to be a record success again , but the last LP I made was so bloody personal it was ludicrous : you ca n't write songs about those you love , your children , and expect other people to buy them … |
| 27 | The absence of her own , however , has enabled her to spend a lifetime amusing and instructing other people 's . |
| 28 | Of course , and if you go back to the answer Beana was giving , even within a country if you try if we try and solve other people 's problems , one is very likely , if not always , to end up with those sorts of difficulties . |
| 29 | In the night he might be heard running up and down his attic bedroom banging the wall at each end , and keeping other people awake . |
| 30 | If you write a fair amount , and read your work critically and let other people criticise it , you will get better . |