Example sentences of "[prep] people [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been too busy looking after people to pay much attention to the way her life was going , but compared with Lottie 's life and his brother and sister-in-law 's , theirs had been very humdrum . |
| 2 | While the number of people drawing such assistance grew steadily during the post-war period , the size of this group has exploded since 1979 . |
| 3 | ‘ A group of people made this Star Zoo . |
| 4 | What are the main obstacles in the way of people taking more control over their own health and health care and have we examples of this struggle from which we can all learn ? |
| 5 | The notion of people sending each other greetings cards in the future with ‘ Happy Music Day ’ complete with pithy , humorous and probably quaintly vulgar subtext is an amusing one . |
| 6 | And they say yeah I will but but presumably that tapers off and they do n't but it 's an interesting thing that on particular when you 're targeting certain things like pantomime do get people in I think there 's lot 's of people said this evening say actually build on that perhaps get those people to come back again so yes I did like it I I did like what I saw there I did like the way that I was treated I did like the whole ambience of the place like I 'll definitely come back again will they be viable to do that ? |
| 7 | straight and erm a lot of people make that , very experienced sales people still make that mistake cost they 're not used to it . |
| 8 | By comparison with other videoconferencing systems ( which have been known to take over whole rooms ) the surprisingly compact desktop VC7000 looks basic , but allows small groups of people to see each other and show documents and objects regardless of their location . |
| 9 | For some groups of people benefit more than others from these laws . |
| 10 | Each year , millions of people visit these picturesque areas . |
| 11 | In our 1979 survey , these were the proportions of people rating each of five factors as the most important in their most recent decision to use a particular type of credit ( Appendix 1 , Table 33a ) : |
| 12 | Saudi Arabia yesterday publicly beheaded four people — two Saudis and two Indians — convicted of murder , taking the total number of people beheaded this year to 99. — Reuter . |
| 13 | But Mrs Standing said : ‘ This is yet another example of people believing all the bad publicity about the estate . |
| 14 | Parts of people present another unusual challenge ( fig. 10.3 ) . |
| 15 | It was a case of people ringing each other up and going — ‘ Guess what … ’ and waiting for the reactions . |
| 16 | A handful of people die each year from mistakenly eating poisonous fungi |
| 17 | There are other good vignettes of people telephoning each other to say goodbye , huddling in corner stores and generally acting as they do in scary SF movies . |
| 18 | CALLAHAN : A lot of people said that . |
| 19 | I do n't know , maybe they erm a , they 'll listen to the tapes and they probably sample some of the words into a computer to build up a database of words that probably like you said , oh he 's getting a lot of jip from his boss , you know , is probably not in the dictionary but if a lot of people said that word then they would . |
| 20 | Phil was the first of a long list of people to tackle this challenge — abseiling down the 170 feet of the electrical engineering tower . |
| 21 | In this time I have noted the steady increase of people pursuing this activity and an equally heavy resistance to the sport by landowners and fishing groups . |
| 22 | I AM sick to death of people decrying this year 's GCSE results . |
| 23 | There 's a lot of people ordering that one . |
| 24 | One of our prolific actors , Michael Caine is also an avid foodie and successful restaurateur — though not a lot of people know that |
| 25 | Not a lot of people know that . |
| 26 | Not a lot of people know that . |
| 27 | Not a lot of people know this , but Dame Edna is a close confidante of the Queen . |
| 28 | the number of people served each morning for a week |
| 29 | the number of people served each afternoon |
| 30 | now , a lot of fol a lot of people find that surprising but |