Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you were to tell me that there are people , like the man upstairs to whom you now threaten to turn yourself in , who actually do have a strong sense of themselves , I would have to tell you that they are only impersonating people with a strong sense of themselves — to which you could correctly reply that since there is no way of proving whether I 'm right or not , this is a circular argument from which there is no escape . |
| 2 | Hi-fi officianardos are already advising people not to be too hasty in relinquishing their black vinyl record collections for fear that the CDs that they are replacing them with will fade in sound quality after ten years of use . |
| 3 | It means you are not to use people , does n't it ? ’ |
| 4 | We 're not asking people to cut down , we 're taking a balanced approach towards alcohol consumption in the whole community , so we 're not er angling the strategy at people who are already very severe , heavy drinkers , or those who are alcohol dependent . |
| 5 | ‘ They 're not letting People With AIDS in . ’ |
| 6 | I think they 're still spacenapping people , if you want to know . |
| 7 | And what seems to be happening is that we 're gradually remembering people we know in other regions and |
| 8 | ‘ We 're gradually eliminating people from the inquiry but it takes time . |
| 9 | I mean personally I think one of the difficulties in the colleges is that they do still have a sense of being at schools , and when you have an atmosphere which is like school you 're tacitly given people permission to act as if they were at school , and so we have a and that activity may not always be very adult , so we have to find a way of changing the environment of the colleges . |
| 10 | But also to make people aware of the Chest , Heart and Stroke Association , what we 're trying to do , and that we 're there to help people as well as being er an organisation which just hands out money to er doctors . |
| 11 | ‘ They make things happen and are always geeing people up , and that does lift other players in the team . |
| 12 | One folly was so outlandish it never got past the planning stage — others are still fooling people to this day … |
| 13 | The police are also urging people who keep money at home to have it banked for safety — they want to make sure that people like phylis do n't lose cash that took years to save in just a few short seconds . |
| 14 | Police are also asking people to be on the lookout for bogus officials following several incidents in the area . |
| 15 | ‘ If you are really dropping people anywhere along that coast I would n't give them forty-eight hours before they are signing a statement for the public prosecutor . |
| 16 | I 'm not stopping people doing it , because people ring me up and say should I do it ? |
| 17 | ‘ What do I know that I 'm not telling people ? ’ |
| 18 | But I 'm not asking people to feel sorry for me . |
| 19 | I 'm not denying people 's right to do it , but politics is about power , and suppose the Social Democratic Party moved in and swept the board , what would we do then ? |
| 20 | I 'm not having people |
| 21 | I was n't quite decent and I thought well I 'm not letting people in when I 'm not decent |
| 22 | I even tape it when I 'm just telling people what I 'm doing . |
| 23 | I 'm always urging people to hurry up . |
| 24 | You ought to be out beating people up and that kind of thing . |
| 25 | In any non-routine form of work , professional responsibilities and personal goals will be continually pushing people up against their limitations of personal resource . |
| 26 | ‘ Pubs are here to allow people to meet and enjoy themselves and really get away from outside pressures . |
| 27 | We are here to serve people of Cambridge and it 's quite clear that the people of Cambridge do want good services , they want , they want services which which improve the quality of life in in in the cities and this is precisely what is erm spending is there to do . |
| 28 | Because it has followed public opinion in the past , the EPA has always taken the view that governments are there to stop people having to run risks , however small . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'd like a new member of staff to know they are there to help people who ca n't help themselves and they also must have one hell of a lot of patience ! |
| 30 | Both Mrs Thatcher and President Reagan were constantly reminding people that the world must stick together to fight the threat from such attacks . |