Example sentences of "[adv] people [verb] [pos pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why could n't people select their own mayor and other local officials ? ’ , students asked angrily . |
| 2 | It is too important in that it enables children to understand how religion influences individuals and societies , and to explore how people form their own beliefs and values — including atheism . |
| 3 | Successful health education/promotion should be grounded in a strong understanding of how people conceptualize their own health . |
| 4 | They assume that erm it 's very difficult to talk about reality , that reality means different things to different people , that people create in many ways their own reality , and they 're interested in the process therefore of fiction-making , they 're interested in erm how people create their own fictions , so that it becomes almost an endless series of mirrors , novelists writing novels about novelists writing novels and so on . |
| 5 | During the last war , for example , when people grew their own fruit and vegetables , when meat was rationed and anything sweet was in short supply , the nation was much healthier . |
| 6 | In villages , where people did their own cooking , baking and brewing , food handling was restricted to milling , malting and butchering , leaving clothing and footwear the commonest occupations — indeed , tailoring was one of the largest single crafts anywhere . |
| 7 | It had changed little since then , a street where people minded their own business , principally that of supplying their own kind with meals remarkable for value and cheapness . |