Example sentences of "[det] people [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , it 's like like Colin and I , I mean , like we 're happy but then , no were not hundred per cent happy at all , But like , er , like some people I ca n't if you get upset , some people eat more , some people eat less , or you know , some go into recluse , some get and like Colin , |
| 2 | While it is unremarkable to observe that although some people eat three meals a day , and others miss out breakfast and lunch altogether , taking all their food in the evenings , there is no such parallel during sleep — no normal person has been found who , for instance , takes all his or her REM sleep in one session of ninety minutes at the beginning of the night , or saves it all up for a session in the early hours of the morning . |
| 3 | The questions can be listed in rough under the headings ( some people put each question on a card to begin with ) and then they can be moved about so as to produce what seems to be a good ‘ flow ’ for the interview . |
| 4 | Some people put some of the responsibility for the growing youth unemployment on educational inadequacies , giving sustenance to the Manpower Services Commission 's bid to control low-level post-school education . |
| 5 | Mr Williams : ‘ Although you did not , would you expect that some people seeing young children on the motorway would be so concerned as to slow down ? ’ |
| 6 | Some people lack one colour pigment , and so lose sensitivity to part of the spectrum , usually red or green . |
| 7 | ( That some people lack these impulses is normally grounds for criticism ; we call them sadists , cruel , or , if it is by way of business , then merely hardened . ) |
| 8 | This is based upon the proposition that some people require lesser levels of care than that provided in the care setting in which they are located , and that it is more cost-effective for them to be supported in a less dependent setting ( Challis , 1992c ) . |
| 9 | We knew that some people had more money than others , and some people had bigger houses than others , but consideration of status was something unknown to us . |
| 10 | I 'm trying to explain to you that there was a different atmosphere about it , the whole situation , I know they were hard times , I know that some people had some really rough times but it did n't show very much , and when I come to think of all my parents ' friends I do n't remember anybody having a wife bashing episode or they all seemed to be very contented with their lot somehow except one , and that was a little bit dicey when I was a little kid , but the man died and the Observer the next week the er obituary notice was put in the paper and underneath they 'd got , with Christ which is far better and my father said and they she could n't have said anything better words |
| 11 | We knew that some people had more money than others , and some people had bigger houses than others , but consideration of status was something unknown to us . |
| 12 | Some people had old contracts and documents , and these too often confirmed some item in a piece of history . |
| 13 | Some people felt that choosing as Queen Anne 's successor in 1714 a ruler from Germany , who might neglect British interests for the sake of his Electorate of Hanover , was already a warning that the British should be careful about any overseas entanglements . |
| 14 | Some people use one overworked phrase frequently . |
| 15 | Like some people use other other words to mean different things . |
| 16 | Some people use informal language as their ordinary language and so run into difficulties when they come up against , formal and official situations . |
| 17 | Some people use this instinctively in their windsurfing in stronger winds and especially now that seat and waist harnesses are widely used . |
| 18 | However , the fact is that some people use this notion and that is more important than what it really is . |
| 19 | You have here twenty six tabbed alpha dividers , er , unless it 's going to create a problem they usually go A to Z. Erm , some people use this an alphabetical filing system . |
| 20 | ‘ Some people deserve all they get , do n't they , eh ? |
| 21 | The intelligence and sensitivity by which some people draw rich implications from quite narrow experience would have nothing to work on if they had not plunged deep into that experience . |
| 22 | Obviously some people make better interviewers than others , but with training no normal person who is reasonably able to carry on a conversation should find it impossible to undertake interviews . |
| 23 | Although it 's usually an ache , some people get sharp , shooting pains and other just mild discomfort with pins and needles . |
| 24 | It just so happens that some people get taught or pick up techniques without too much problem ( because of circumstances and the people they interact with and learn from ) but some individuals simply do not get exposed to the right experiences to learn these things in quite the same way . |
| 25 | After a few drinks and dancing , all were quite content until they heard that some people get proposed to on Christmas Eve . |
| 26 | Some people get stuck at this point . |
| 27 | But not everybody does cos some people get frightened of dentists and they think ooh I do n't want to go there . |
| 28 | When all allowance is made for such factors , it has to be said that as some people get older they do appear to show a marked increase in anxious self-absorption . |
| 29 | And when you , some people regard these things as panaceas . |
| 30 | Some people worry that selling off state assets mortgages the country 's future . |