Example sentences of "[verb] people [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wiped out by a five-hour flight to a city where riding the subway is an act of hedonism , and where the pollution on the streets works on the brain like speed , driving people scrambling to the summits of New York City 's towers of granite and power . |
| 2 | A disembodied voice came over the amplifiers instructing people to move outside the ropes . |
| 3 | All this , say people living in the nearby village of Watchfield , make the college a prime terrorist target . |
| 4 | This deliberate government policy was to encourage people to live in the rural areas and ensure that their income was at least as high as that of the factory worker . |
| 5 | There has been a very large response to the Council 's campaign to encourage people to apply for a rebate on the community charge . |
| 6 | The government certainly had no money to spare to help the colonies , and this introduced the general rule that English colonies had to cover their own costs , both in the sense that the government of a colony had to raise enough revenue to pay its own bills and in the sense that there were no subsidies to encourage people to stay in a colony where they could not earn their own living . |
| 7 | To encourage people to voyage into the psychic seems about as responsible as the Wright brothers taking day-trippers on their first ever flight — without parachutes ! |
| 8 | It 's a bit embarrassing to come staggering out of the mist , with a purple face , eyes lost in swollen , battered tissue , gasping for breath , to find people wandering around the path in cardigans and slacks . |
| 9 | Er y do you find it difficult to find people to look after the children , or is it just that you , you would n't want to go out ? |
| 10 | Keeping people talking on the phone . |
| 11 | Educational or entertainment wise , whatever way you take it , Wilf wants people to unwind with the team . |
| 12 | The leaflets urge people to vote for the party 's Darlington candidate Dr Donald Clarke , claiming the BNP is the only party which can help Britain by ending ‘ a tide of immigration ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ It makes such a difference to train people to operate in an interview , ’ commented the prince . |
| 14 | The socio- psychological stress positively discouraged people to participate in the socioeconomic and sociolinguistic life of the wider community.In industry with a large ethnic , non-English speaking labour force any ‘ vertical communication ’ from the top to the bottom can be greatly facilitated by the use of a language that the participants in the discourse of instruction or socialisation understand and identify with . |
| 15 | This covers people paid on a one-off or casual basis , eg window-cleaners . |
| 16 | Erm the process check list erm again they 've identified the people on each erm and within that they 've actually nominated people to look at the land ownership which is the , on the ignored with their rider on the previous sheet . |
| 17 | But you you 've got the drift and as long as I I persuade people to listen to the people who 've been doing it for so long |
| 18 | So they imagine people living in a pre-political state of " nature " writing social contracts on blank slates . |
| 19 | What might be more dangerous is that forty years of so-called socialism have made people accustomed to a kind of egalitarianism , so that they will not readily tolerate great differences in income or lifestyle . |
| 20 | So I thought I 'd wait a year or two and let people get into the techno thing and get used to being more receptive to what it is , as opposed to what it was in ‘ 86 , when nobody knew what the term was and everybody was scared of technology . |
| 21 | It allows people to get into the story — to read , to read . |
| 22 | He believes the government has generally down-graded people working in the public services sector over the last ten years , with university teachers having fared particularly badly as far as pay is concerned . |
| 23 | The coat felt insufferably hot , she thought she had seen people looking at the coat with amusement , but there was nothing she could do . |
| 24 | ‘ We have seen people go into the forest from the Ridgery but they do not often go alone like you . |
| 25 | Some people may sprint when they run , but I have seen people running for the bus who could not be described as sprinting . |
| 26 | You 've probably all been in situation where you seen people zigzag across the road because they think they 're being followed the ladies will do it because she thinks a bloke is following her and the men are probably thinking does she think I 'm following her ? |
| 27 | Now I 'll I 'll stop you there Ron because you 've got the you 've got the drift of it because when we get down to deciding people come on a course then they have |
| 28 | There should be a stockpile of sandbags to help people cope with the floods . |
| 29 | The Clearing System is designed to help people looking for an alternative place . |
| 30 | The second strand of the work to help people to move across the European Community is the mutual recognition of qualifications . |