Example sentences of "[verb] people [verb] [prep] the " 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 | 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 ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | Keeping people talking on the phone . |
| 9 | Educational or entertainment wise , whatever way you take it , Wilf wants people to unwind with the team . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It allows people to get into the story — to read , to read . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The coat felt insufferably hot , she thought she had seen people looking at the coat with amusement , but there was nothing she could do . |
| 18 | ‘ We have seen people go into the forest from the Ridgery but they do not often go alone like you . |
| 19 | Some people may sprint when they run , but I have seen people running for the bus who could not be described as sprinting . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | There should be a stockpile of sandbags to help people cope with the floods . |
| 22 | The second strand of the work to help people to move across the European Community is the mutual recognition of qualifications . |
| 23 | The readings and music were designed to help people reflect on the goodness of God 's creation and our responsibility to be stewards of the harvest . |
| 24 | She came ashore near Ballycastle Quay and was asked to help people stranded in the central part of the town , approximately a mile inland . |
| 25 | The grants aim to help people live in the community as independently as possible . |
| 26 | Throughout its life of eight years , myth building encouraged people to think of the unit as being on the margins of the organization . |
| 27 | I do n't like people meddling in the way I run this prison and that 's what they 're doing . |
| 28 | Even the boys at Fourth do n't like people shooting off the heavy stuff , although they take most things in their stride . |
| 29 | ‘ He does n't like people going to the house — because of Carla . ’ |
| 30 | Ask yourself these questions : How much influence do finance people have over the achievement of your goals ? |