Example sentences of "other people " in BNC.
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| 1 | So one person could receive sexually-transmitted diseases ( STDs ) from up to 40,000 other people ! |
| 2 | The book depicts Eliot as a parodist , a plagiarist , a responder to other people 's poems , and as a seeker of shelter . |
| 3 | These two people had enacted what we have long been accustomed to think of as a romantic programme , whereby love and death converge , and dying young is the thing to do , whereby other people , and common life , are a thing to be escaped from , and a tension develops between the duty to a partner and a cultivation of the self , between the dictates of an amour fou and an amour de soi . |
| 4 | It can be said of these strong-minded and independently gifted accomplices that their work shows a dimension of reciprocity and replication , of the production unit , which stands at an appreciable remove from parody and plagiarism , and from the mimicry of other people 's voices which is comprehended in the term ‘ ventriloquism ’ , which Amis goes in for in private , among friends , and which is also a pleasure of the novels he writes . |
| 5 | Levi was an author who , without detriment to the other people who figure in his books , wrote all the time about himself , both in autobiographical and in fictional form . |
| 6 | There are plenty of good coaches about just as there are a multitude of nice misguided types who seek to portray themselves through other people over and over again . |
| 7 | Find yourself a hobby like other people , go to the pictures , the night school , the dancing , the football , the … |
| 8 | Watch how other people behave ; remember everything is useful to the actor . |
| 9 | In times past , I had tried to get across to the continent as much as possible , but now , while other people were going abroad for the first time because of all the cheap travel around , I was ( without intending to be anti-social ) doing exactly the opposite and taking a look around the British Isles . |
| 10 | Add together a susceptibility to flashy packaging and a lack of any real interest in the substance of other people 's problems and you 're on the way to producing a ‘ designer carer , . |
| 11 | The result of every accident , however minor , is a rise in the cost of insurance , the loss of the aircraft while it is replaced or repaired and , sometimes , injuries to the pilot and other people involved . |
| 12 | Most glider pilots have never experienced anything more hazardous than a bad landing , so reading and talking about other people 's mistakes is almost the only way of becoming aware of the kind of situations which lead to broken gliders . |
| 13 | Obviously , the Nimbus pilot was at fault for allowing the other people at the launch point to influence his judgement . |
| 14 | Looking after other people 's children can be very rewarding indeed , but it is also hard work and a big responsibility and is not quite the same as bringing up your own children . |
| 15 | To stop the spread of the virus avoid close contact with other people . |
| 16 | It will take up room on the stairs , so remember that the space left for other people using the stairs will be less . |
| 17 | All the time with other people she was acting , confident and charming ; backstage alone , the pain in her eyes glared at her from a bright-lit make-up mirror , weeping at the tawdriness of it all , scorning costume and plot and witty script . |
| 18 | She and Donald had started to take risks — they wanted each other so much that the reality of other people had dimmed for them , half the time they felt cloaked in invisibility . |
| 19 | That afternoon Susan sat in the lounge with the other people . |
| 20 | Brought a couple of other people . ’ |
| 21 | I would say that the child is capable — more or less — of recognizing that other people have mental states different to his own . |
| 22 | While consciousness may be central to an understanding of one 's self , it is marginal to an understanding of other people . |
| 23 | Consciousness in other people is a hypothesis for which there is circumstantial evidence in their verbal reports which match , by-and-large , our verbal reports of our own experiences . |
| 24 | First , here in my own country , a few baby steps , and now , other people , other places , other lands . |
| 25 | He stares at the streets near him and hopes the grief he sees there is something that happens to other people . |
| 26 | On board ship he invariably tried to hoodwink other people , even a cabin boy , into paying for his sherry . |
| 27 | He has only expressed what a lot of other people have been starting to fear for a long time , that unless the commercial manipulators in tennis are careful , they could cook the golden goose . |
| 28 | ‘ It took us quite a while to persuade other people just how much tennis in general could benefit , especially in those countries where Government grants are dependent on Olympic membership , if tennis was once again a member of the Olympic family . |
| 29 | Some offer a chance to meet other people and share activities and a meal ; others offer specialist care , for instance to people with dementia . |
| 30 | During the four days we spent on Elgon we saw no other people and only one solitary gazelle . |