Example sentences of "[pron] people [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three of my people died on the way ’ . |
| 2 | on some of their things and in fact two of their people came to the intellectual property thing |
| 3 | Portugal became the poorest EC member with almost a quarter of its people living off the land . |
| 4 | Neither the Bolivian government , nor its people benefit from the trade . |
| 5 | The death on May 4th of Haruyuki Takata , an unarmed policeman in Cambodia , also led the Japanese government to order all its people working for the United Nations there back to the capital , Phnom Penh . |
| 6 | Erm that somehow coping strategies which people developed at the time are counter-productive when they when they 're a bit older , so that 's the general erm er kind of of impetus behind that . |
| 7 | THE MOST memorable dinner at the House of Commons was in April 1956 in Dining Room A , that long room into which people strolling on the terrace can easily peer . |
| 8 | Later , in a speech at Warsaw University , the Prince spoke with admiration of the Polish people 's struggle and talked to the veterans of the uprising in which people took to the streets against the Germans , expecting help which never came from the nearby Russian army . |
| 9 | The first is , at best , a ‘ trade union consciousness ’ or a ‘ subordinate value system ’ , in which people placed at the bottom of the social system recognize they are exploited but seek only to improve their position within it . |
| 10 | This is quite different from the lengthy exposure to much lower levels which people receive from the nuclear industry . |
| 11 | My hon. Friends may fear that in some parts of the country we shall return to the oppressive and unfair bills which people received under the rates system . |
| 12 | As we have seen , culture permeates the whole of life and has a profound influence on the meaning which people attach to the messages they hear , the way they make decisions and the social and institutional structures which they build around their creeds and values . |
| 13 | Henry thought this was depressingly typical of the way in which people talked about the recently deceased . |
| 14 | The pattern today includes most of the features which people created in the past . |
| 15 | And she was the first that got on horseback , and with some fifty that were with her , did some hurt to the company of the Cid ; but in fine they slew her , and her people fled to the camp . |
| 16 | all her people restored in the sea air |
| 17 | The Profitboss encourages his people to identify with the company 's new " 2000 " range of products , to identify their own contribution to its potential success in the marketplace . |
| 18 | That night he set his people to work in the darkness , filling holes in the trenches and moving the cannon forwards again . |
| 19 | After the surrender , reporter J.J. Healey wrote that Joseph was ‘ walking round about his people talking to the wounded and occasionally addressing the warriors by signs , and seemed quite unconcerned about his defeat . ’ |
| 20 | The Profitboss does n't control punctuality nor what his people say to the press . |
| 21 | Then the Cid and his people returned to the field and began to plunder the tents . |
| 22 | He encourages his people to think in the same way . |
| 23 | Cos it people come off the sites or go to the corner shop , do n't cross the road . |
| 24 | He needs not to forget that there are demonic forces in the universe whatever people say about the existence of the devil . |
| 25 | I do n't think it should become too academic , it should be whatever people want at the grassroots level , we have a couple of thousand years of patriarchy behind us and we 're not going to change things overnight . |
| 26 | At the Women 's Nutritional Advisory Service we conducted a survey to find out what people understood by the term " well balanced diet " . |
| 27 | I said well they 're just what people had before the sticky labels . |
| 28 | It was really to see what people thought of the presentation rather than the prize . ’ |
| 29 | In Dar es Salaam and elsewhere during 1967 and 1968 , one occasionally heard mention of Mwafrika as if it still existed , only to discover that what was being referred to was actually Uhuru , the official daily paper of TANU , This confusion was understandable : the Mwafrika of 1965 bore no relation to what people remembered of the old one , but the pattern set by the earlier Mwafrika and Zuhra seems to have been continued after independence by Uhuru and Ngurumo . |
| 30 | For instance to this is an assumption that although we are going to have a shortfall on the collection fund , again because of good housekeeping we believe that this action is what people want by the charge payers of the city and again that in this financial year it can be taken out of the . |