Example sentences of "[v-ing] people [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , since his political authority was based partly on the myth of his personal infallibility , he could not eat humble pie before the Allies without causing people to question both . |
| 2 | An anonymous notice has also been placed beneath the original at the beginning of the right of way urging people to oppose any plans to re-classify the track , and alerting them to possible future proposals . |
| 3 | They 've only been elected to nineteen ninety two , so they 're , they 're really , what there doing there forcing people to take some action now , because at Kathy says , she 's afraid of being left out , if there should be a , another Tory Government , so a lot of people are in the same position , they will be putting in eh , I think they just call it best of interest , not a proper application , but then if the whole lot , hundreds of us come along , which is quite likely they will , the Government will say well this proves that everybody wants to become you see , so it 's rather clever move , erm , as , as far as I 'm concerned , what 's happening with that she is eh here within the hospital , the consultant 's and the worker 's in the hospital . |
| 4 | And he was always persuading people to spend more money . |
| 5 | It 's so difficult and frustrating for parents and one feels so isolated , and one needs to discuss these problems with other parents and the parents working together , of course , could do so much in erm getting units started and getting people to understand this problem . |
| 6 | From 1 January 1993 fiscal frontiers between member states will disappear , allowing people to move most VAT-paid goods freely between member states without imposition of further tax . |
| 7 | And erm I think too , some ways of allowing people to have more power over their own lives , and not just being at the mercy of agencies , such as social services and erm |
| 8 | The Chair should be firm in not allowing people to interrupt each other . |
| 9 | Mr Chairman , er , it 's an important point , but I 'm so fed up with hearing people using this as a political issue , erm , and , and , and I 'm a high critic of the government er , for many other reasons , but I would like to know where these people think the money would come from . |
| 10 | It is normally found that although hearing people report more words presented to the RVF rather than to the LVF , deaf people show minimal asymmetry for both English words and drawings of signs ( Phippard , 1977 ) . |
| 11 | He is sceptical about the moral value of teaching the classics or serious contemporary fiction and poetry : ‘ Indeed , it is immodest to propose that by making people read these things we are improving them , ethically or civically . |
| 12 | President , Congress , once again working people face another political attack . |