Example sentences of "[adv] people [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | how people responded to that |
| 2 | ‘ Did I tell you how people die in this valley ? ’ he asked . |
| 3 | Archaeologists can reveal only very fragmentary glimpses of how people lived at any period , but what they imagined and thought is beyond recovery — the meagre scraps of records are useless or , at best , tantalizing in that they provide details torn from their context . |
| 4 | To understand the AL of communicating one has to understand how people relate to each other . |
| 5 | COLON Put a colon ( : ) between two complete clauses to make them one larger sentence : The difference between Pip and the other characters appears again when we see how people deal with this : Pip continues to show Estella that he still wants her , never giving up . |
| 6 | how people learn about these constituents of words and the rules governing their combination , and |
| 7 | ‘ You know how people talk in these small communities . ’ |
| 8 | The main reason why people act in this manner is to save a few seconds — a high price to pay . |
| 9 | Why , then , when people speak with such apparent honesty about such an important issue , do we feel we are drowning beneath cataracts of monologue ? |
| 10 | ‘ How can we motivate our neighbourhood to become a harmonious community where people care for each other and collaborate in answering their common needs ? ’ |
| 11 | You know I mean that 's basically what we want it 's any situation where people talk to each other , with some kind of agenda in mind . |
| 12 | Other way round , any situation where people talk to each other , for instance |
| 13 | okay , again I mean these are things that talk about confirmation I mean quite honestly I 'm I 'd be quite happy if we had offices where people talk to each other ninety per cent of the time rather than send memos and faxes to each other , and on the whole we are really talking about inside the office with the people who we work with I mean obviously clients as well trying to find something different , we tend tend to find that it 's very very easy sometimes to make a phone call it 's much easier to make a phone call and to talk to that person and give them the personal touch . |
| 14 | He chose a route back down the hill that did not involve too many serious gradients , moving from Roseberry Road to Warburton Drive to Chesterton Terrace and , from there , doubling back along a series of streets with an offensively tangible air of esprit de corps — Lowther Park Drive , where people called to each other over their Volvos and , even worse , Stapleton Road , a place that seemed almost permanently on the verge of a street party . |