Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The aim is to encourage public awareness about the value of the buildings around them and to get owners who no longer want the properties , to sell or lease them to new people . ’ |
| 2 | Um it 's almost as if the debate about false memory syndrome is embedded in an older notion of memory , embedded in a notion of memory as if it were either literally true or literally false , embedded in a notion of memory which sees memories as things like larders or cupboards or filing cabinets and um y'know people pick the memories out and get them out and and display them to other people . |
| 3 | Their narrow perspective alienates them from broad-minded people who value the business in broader terms , who value certain immeasurable bit critical factors such as morale , expertise and goodwill . |
| 4 | Before banks or even locks and keys were invented , the usual way of protecting valuable objects and money was to hide them from other people . |
| 5 | I referred him to various people who knew his father , including one or two working in the Eastern European section of MI6 at the time . ’ |
| 6 | AE 's sometimes addressed themselves to irate people who said they would never invest in futures , let alone through DPR . |
| 7 | Partly because the financial fun enriched lots of powerful people in Japan . |
| 8 | ‘ I think it was good to meet lots of different people but on the other hand , I have never really felt settled or had lifelong friends like most people , ’ he says . |
| 9 | Oh well that 's another thing for to get under her wing is n't it , how she 's going to integrate her department ? frankly wo n't know anything about motivating people |
| 10 | Linlithgow 's Labour MP , Tam Dalyell , has aligned himself with local people fighting the proposed workings and has expressed concern that they could damage or destroy a line of beech trees bounding the site . |
| 11 | Rather than refer them to other people , I find myself , as I am sure my colleagues do too , making the basic applications for citizens who come to me in order to save them time , effort and money . |
| 12 | erm it does take a lot of effort to move over to meeting them as individual people , and once you 've understood that they are individual people and you get to know their interests and get to know your common humanity , then that 's the point where you want to get on and do something more , but it 's very difficult to recognise the common humanity , and a lot of |
| 13 | He must always believe the things she told him about other people , especially those in his father 's family , but Frankie sometimes found her instructions very hard to understand . |
| 14 | If you show it to other people it could form part of their records which they may later be obliged to disclose . |
| 15 | They 've done it with real people ? |
| 16 | You had different , different companies do the , do the job so you used to get say I mean th you get a receiver for that cargo , well it , perhaps he got so much for receiving that cargo , then that was his job then to allocate it to different people but he , cos that was another job for him which you do n't do now . |
| 17 | The hotel 's owners want to replace it with old people 's homes , but they 've agreed to hold back the bulldozers while the building 's inspected by an official from English Heritage . |
| 18 | Although , strictly speaking , the bearers were not assigned to individuals and worked as a pool , carrying messages for anybody in the building , in practice they identified themselves with particular people . |
| 19 | I 'm meeting lots of new people , and since the divorce I 've thrown myself into my job . ’ |
| 20 | And I find it somehow very encouraging that television can present us with real people instead of the usual cyphers and still strike such deep and resonant chords in so many . |
| 21 | Spending our lives in jealousy and envy can only isolate us from other people and make us unhappy . |
| 22 | I meant to ask her about it this afternoon , but she 'd lots of other people there . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ I 've met lots of interesting people that I would never have seen before and I 've even had some nice letters . |
| 24 | Stitt added : ‘ We have two videos of it from the BBC and Sky and have shown them to professional people who think it 's a horrible tackle . |
| 25 | And when he comes to the richer and more respectable inmates of the borough who can veil their defects behind money , he remains sardonic , and sees them as poor people who have not been found out . |
| 26 | We do n't see ourselves as special people and we do n't see ourselves as having specific financial credentials , although some members of our group , not myself , may have those , but we try by listening to the people who 've elected us and listening to in general comments that are made from outside the council , which is a terribly closed body . |
| 27 | Some nurses are very enthusiastic about the bank as a route of re-entry , as it enables you to sample different wards and departments and introduces you to new people . |
| 28 | Older children understand that a particular situation does not inevitably provoke a particular emotion : the emotion you display depends on how you view the situation , whether you try to change your emotional reaction to it , and whether you try to conceal it from other people . |
| 29 | She 'd never seen anything like it in other people 's houses , or in shops — not even antique shops . |
| 30 | You meet lots of new people too . |