Example sentences of "[adj] people [vb past] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Different people did all these jobs . |
| 2 | Not that the early wandering people needed any formal system of feng shui , because , as they lived and moved under the direct influence of the earth 's subtle energies , its principles were naturally integrated in their lives . |
| 3 | But Rosie had come first , and real people mattered more than fantasies . |
| 4 | We children were always told to emphasise the " full " of the wash lest people think we were dirty , and given that most white people thought all black people were dirty it was a counter to any racialist-type thoughts that people might be harbouring . |
| 5 | It is believed that the Yukagir people had many languages and dialects at the time of the Russian conquest , although only a small remnant of this nationality survives today . |
| 6 | Eliot was the most orderly of men , and Anne Bradby ( who became Mrs Ridler shortly after ) was , I am sure , a methodical young lady ; but typescripts did get lost or mislaid , though other people suffered more than I did . |
| 7 | A great many things that other people did all the time she had never done . |
| 8 | Certain people missed that joke . |
| 9 | Russia felt under threat from attack constantly , and the Russian people had many sacrifices demanded on them , and were kept lean and hungry . |
| 10 | The local people took this as a sign of displeasure from the Almighty who was shutting the doors of his house against his sinning congregation . |
| 11 | It was n't an ideal situation , but it was educational provision of a sort , and local people thought that was better than nothing at all which was what the girl was being offered at the time by the authorities . |
| 12 | Another task was the provision of training in servicing the project 's Landrovers as the local people had little experience . |
| 13 | Local people claimed that dust blown from the drying tailings pond ( though lake would be a more accurate description , as it covered 148 acres ) left after the mine closed was harming human and animal health in the area . |
| 14 | After the war , the local people built some dikes , and as if from nowhere , the cranes came back . |