Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [adj] people " in BNC.

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1 Looking at me , you 'd never guess I 'd killed three people .
2 Erm , then I think it probably had us confused for a while , whilst we were just trying to decide who should do writing and who should do what , but then I decided I 'd chose two people , and then we started cutting things out so then that , that went okay then .
3 It 's so sincere and done with such love that you know it must be agony for them and your one thought is , ‘ Oh God , how could I have hurt these people like that ? ’
4 I had imagined go-it-alone people to be temperamentally independent-minded and even rebellious — and perhaps to feel a kind of robust roguishness at cheating the taxman on principle .
5 I had seen many people in the distance .
6 I had to bawl those people out for not having due consideration to the effects of other human beings and the problems that they have .
7 But when they came back into court on 14 February it was obvious what they were going to say — I had watched these people for a year , I could read them .
8 I 've asked many people I 've met who sell drugs if they take them and they say , ‘ No , no ’ .
9 Oh yeah , that 's what I 'm saying , there 's eight people used to go up I 've seen eight people leaving the Stenness Hotel crofters were around go round gillying for for the Stenness Hotel .
10 ‘ Oh , yes , I think so , and I 've seen other people not confident , go out there and play like it , and not get any runs . ’
11 does n't matter if I 'm not going to name any names but I mean I 've seen some people who it 's been suggested might stand two hoots of a flick of a finger whether someone of the sort that I 've seen mentioned , stood or not .
12 I 've seen 30 people aboard .
13 I 've met these people before !
14 I mean I 've I 've chased more people off
15 I 've chased more people off than the security has .
16 But I 've heard two people
17 Yeah , cos I 've heard some people stand up , pronounce that
18 Well , the you 've heard , I 've heard some people being nasty and , and they did n't say no , but it was always , not always it was occasionally done grudgingly , and , and erm in many cases of course it was done willingly , you know come in yes please do , and , and they did n't even want the penny that , that you offered them for the telephone call .
19 I 've had other people here that do n't come anywhere near your background and and your style and particularly your voice .
20 I may not have seen the race , but I 've had enough people describe both the race and Jackie 's driving to know what a result it was .
21 I 'm sure that he is , the people who 've come from there , quite clearly recovering alcoholics or mental hospital patients , or possibly people from prison , and I 've known enough people in my time to know this .
22 So so far I 've let six people go .
23 The series ' basic premise is that entertainer Sean Hughes discovers one morning that his living room has become a television studio and an invited audience has turned up ( ‘ I 've got some people round … about 450 of them , actually ’ ) .
24 Listen I 've got , Vernon I I 've got some people who have had the side effects .
25 I 've got three people working on it right now and they 've been working on it for three years .
26 I 've got several people helping me all over the area , and I watch three or four games on a Sunday myself . ’
27 Perhaps today the general public take too much for granted , the , as a local Councillor I have to interview many people who come to me with housing problems , to be as patient as one can is essential as a politician , but after the complainant has gone , one is very conscious of the fact that their problem is so minute it is hardly worth mentioning .
28 I have questioned these people carefully .
29 During my researches for this series I have met many people who , though agreeing with the theory behind the reforms of British medical education proposed by the General Medical Council and other bodies , do not think that reforms can be implemented on a wide scale .
30 Provided you have a fair left hand reach it 's possible to play this without a capo , although I have seen many people play it either with one at the 2nd fret , or without one by transposing the part down to E …
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