Example sentences of "[prep] people [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speaking in Birmingham yesterday Ramblers ' chairman Dr Geoff Eastwood said : ‘ While millions of people flock to the countryside to enjoy its footpaths and open spaces , those who live in the cities and are without the means to travel to the countryside are losing out on a great potential leisure resource right on their doorsteps . ’ |
| 2 | Graham 's shops coincided with an increasing number of people taking to the hills . |
| 3 | The statistics issued by ICAO over the last three decades show beyond any doubt that , despite a vast increase in the number of people taking to the air each year , the likelihood of any public transport passenger being killed diminishes . |
| 4 | I mean I have a lot of people come to the vicarage and the churchyard , particularly people who have got alcohol problems . |
| 5 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
| 6 | Now , a lot of people got to the one month happily , the thirty nine , but only fifteen out of these thirty nine made it to six months . |
| 7 | It , it 's fairly effective ; seventy per cent of people exposed to the virus who have been vaccinated , get no attack at all , and thirty per cent get a much milder attack than , than they would have expected . |
| 8 | I arrived just after one of the more serious rounds , when thousands of people took to the streets to burn and loot . |
| 9 | Although an indefinite curfew was reimposed in Srinagar after the assassination , thousands of people took to the streets as Farooq 's body was carried from the hospital to which it had been taken to his home . |
| 10 | Ershad 's resignation announcement was greeted with scenes of wild jubilation in Dhaka where hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in celebration . |
| 11 | Hundreds of people took to the water over the weekend to recreate ancient and strange boat races . |
| 12 | The protesters , also angered by cheap imports from eastern Europe and South America , ransacked sheds owned by a merchant they said dealt in British fish and hundreds of people took to the streets of Concarneau and neighbouring ports to show their support . |
| 13 | Brown demonstrates the extent to which the growth of research activities in this field has led to the emergence of improved cluster analytic methods for the multidimensional classification of people according to the type of area in which they live . |
| 14 | It has a multi-disciplinary team both for the selection of people to move to the community and to manage their services — take decisions on their services once they are in the community . |
| 15 | These markers are outward signs portraying whether or not individuals and collections of people belong to the same ethnic group . |
| 16 | There is , however , a minority of people coming to the notice of the police or courts in whom mental disorder has played a direct causal role in the offence . |
| 17 | Little wonder we 're suspicious of people coming to the front door ! |
| 18 | Colonel Durand , in command of the defences , who had only a few militia and the usual garrison ‘ invalids ’ under him , sent a desperate appeal for assistance to Field Marshal Wade , while the sudden departure of people returning to the surrounding countryside — Saturday 9 November 1745 was a market day in Carlisle — added to his difficulties , as an eye-witness recorded : |
| 19 | Thousands of people flocked to the country 's newest prison over the weekend for a rare opportunity to see inside . |
| 20 | The gigantic man turned him slowly , against the tide of people pressing to the epicentre , and planted him squarely on his feet . |
| 21 | It was these strengths that brought thousands upon thousands of people flocking to the banners on that wonderful wet Sunday in Hyde Park . |
| 22 | ‘ Millions of people travel to the region every year many of them for the first time and we want to make sure that the lasting impression they take with them is a good one . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Millions of people travel to the region every year , many of them for the first time , and we want to make sure the lasting impression they take with them is a good one . ’ |
| 24 | Although I am myself very much in favour of people going to the theatre and reading books it is very useful for my research for me to play devil 's advocate on these activities and to ask ‘ Why should people go to the theatre ? ’ and ‘ Why should people read books ? ’ |
| 25 | THERE has been a big rise in the number of people going to the Sellafield Visitors Centre . |
| 26 | And I believe that the growing trend erm of people going to the cinema , erm cinema owners reconverting cinemas they 've cut into three back into the large auditoria , erm will continue and a night out at the cinema has something to do with the the building you 're in , erm this building if refurbished would have a restaurant , would have a bar , would have a cinema club , would be a real asset to the town . |
| 27 | Public transport in the town was frequent and fairly cheap and a high proportion of people travelling to the shops did so by bus . |
| 28 | However , most modern studies on the police emphasize the variety of people attracted to the force and now focus more on styles of policing ( for example , see Black 1980 ; Broderick 1973 ; Brown 1981 ; Cain 1973 ; Muir 1977 ; Reiner 1978 , 1985 ; Shearing 1981 ; Walsh 1977 ; Wilson 1968 ) , although the idea that policing attracts people with distinct personality traits is still popular among some social psychologists ( see Colman 1983 ; Colman and Gorman 1982 ; cf. Waddington 1982 ) . |
| 29 | So long as it maintains the idea that believers talking to unbelievers are like people explaining to the blind what it is like to see , reason may be tolerated . |
| 30 | Turns out , Deardrie , she 's applied to be an astronaut — I remember seeing the advert , asking for people to go to the moon — it 's not that I 'm jealous , but why did n't she ask me first ? |