Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] other people " in BNC.
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| 1 | You cared about other people and tried to be kind to them , even though they were strangers you would probably never meet again . |
| 2 | An extremely bright young woman who cared about other people to the depths of her soul . |
| 3 | I still remember my surprise at the changed attitudes I noticed in other people when I first put on a white coat . |
| 4 | When it came to other people , particularly men , she preferred to be in control . |
| 5 | She came with him to Joe 's birthday party and danced mainly with Peter , though in the slow numbers she gave him no encouragement to smooch with her ; and when she danced with other people he thought that , quite literally , he was going to die of pain . |
| 6 | For her , war was something that happened in other people 's lives , and even the most recent conflicts had failed to win her to the view that war could be , upon occasions , both right and just . |
| 7 | He remembers what happened to other people through all periods of recorded time — through what he has read and been taught . |
| 8 | With a sexual history spanning more than twenty years and including fifty or sixty different partners , he regarded VD as something that happened to other people , and was somewhat surprised to develop a mild urethral discharge five weeks after first sleeping with his new girl-friend , Angela , who was younger than him and relatively sexually inexperienced . |
| 9 | Death was something that only happened to other people — except there was the ragged hole that the shadow-voices had opened up in her and Zulei was tearing at it and there was death behind . |
| 10 | It still happened to other people and all . |
| 11 | Suppose my friend turned to other people for help , gathered all the crucial data about myself , consulted everyone who knew me , all my friends and acquaintances . |
| 12 | And er I 've been there all my life and that 's and that 'll be eighty seven years old come May and er I 've just worked on the farm all my days and er then of course when my people died I just er stayed myself , and then lived with other people here and there , just to help them . |
| 13 | And in view of the information he had when he went to London for a meeting last Wednesday and that was when he consulted with other people deciding that he should offer a nought percent increase . |
| 14 | At first I was doubtful about taking him , for he did not look strong ; but the Sandfords assured us that he had stood up to several long treks with them , invariably producing good meals even under the most unfavourable conditions , that he never interfered with other people , and was always ready to lend a hand at any job . |
| 15 | There was no legitimate income , he relied on other people . |
| 16 | Problems belonged to other people . |
| 17 | It did n't matter to be honest in some contracts whether we won or lost against other people low paid workers , exploitation by the contractors . |
| 18 | Mary never thought of other people , but only of herself . |
| 19 | ‘ We took in other people 's dirty washing , ’ he says . |
| 20 | She was curious to know how she looked to other people . |
| 21 | She was bored and angry with Conway , because he thought he understood everything and he never listened to other people . |
| 22 | By looking for faults in his behaviour , by constantly diminishing him with little criticisms — he neglected their boy ( at school in Randung ) , he was cold , he was selfish , he was an inadequate and clumsy lover ( did she dare ) , he never listened to other people , he had no sense of direction because he was always getting her lost in foreign capitals — she made him feel a kind of leper , different from and inferior to the run of men . |
| 23 | Uncle H has developed a fascinating heresy based on the idea that exactly what you did to other people while you were alive gets done right back to you once you 're dead . |
| 24 | His own task was to make sure , no matter how it appeared to other people , that he constantly checked across from his private life of personal belief — and back again — to the professional , public and accountable life of a head . |
| 25 | It 's a it 's a grea it 's a great play , I 've seen it performed by other people and it 's a great evening . |
| 26 | In fact , about the only contact Edward ever had with other people 's flesh was when the school maids , and then their friends from round about , began to share their sexual favours with him . |
| 27 | If sometimes , when I canvassed for other people at elections , addressed envelopes , drafted manifestos , I felt like an alcoholic sneaking a secret drink , this was a purely subjective analogy . |
| 28 | I did n't have a solid grasp of myself — I depended on other people and surroundings to cue me . |