Example sentences of "[adj] people [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Some people take to the Cup more than others . |
| 2 | Some people react to the notion that a human being might be understood as a computer of a certain sort as demeaning of what is special about human beings . |
| 3 | a transcription you remember last year , we had about one week on phonetics , and John , some people came to the John talk , where we did n't really talk about phonetics script there . |
| 4 | It is really very easy for people like me , in North-West London , living my comfortable middle-class life , to go to a comfortable mikva like some people go to the local jacuzzi or sauna ! |
| 5 | Few people went to the seafront at night ; a follower would be fairly easy to spot . |
| 6 | There were , undoubtedly , people with AIDS before 1981 , but careful retrospective studies have shown that it was rare and affected few people compared to the numbers now involved . |
| 7 | AS temperatures soared into the 70 's all across the north west , sensible people headed to the nearest beach . |
| 8 | Pentecostal minister the Rev Colin Hill and a dozen members of his nearby Kemble Street Elim Church congregation asked more than 100 people going to the show to turn back . |
| 9 | And last night , we sang the top ten , in the Songs of Praise service , and it was a surprising how many extra people came to the church , as a result of that . |
| 10 | Police and motoring organisations warned that drivers heading for the capital are certain to face lengthy delays as thousands of extra people take to the roads . |
| 11 | Steve explains : ‘ Vital evidence has been stolen , official records lost or destroyed , the deck log book of an American vessel in the area at the time of the disaster has been rewritten , and six people linked to the disaster , including one witness , have died in unusual circumstances . ’ |
| 12 | She wrote to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York , but both declined to appear as witnesses in the trial , Dr Coggan arguing that a jury were far more likely to be influenced by ordinary people testifying to the poem 's blasphemous nature than by ‘ professional ’ Church leaders . |
| 13 | There were reports about groups of ordinary people taking to the streets , holding hands , approaching armoured carriers and calling for peace . |
| 14 | All three people went to the High School . |
| 15 | So that these people go to the urban areas to get the jobs , they 're not trained erm , for these jobs right and as a result , these wages rates still , may still be maintained despite the fact there are lots of people who are quite happy to take wages erm , in , take up jobs in the urban sectors , it 's the fact that sort of , employers do n't want them , because they do n't have the requisite skills . |
| 16 | He looked on ‘ with the greatest pleasure ’ while all these people danced to the music of Figaro , arranged — according to the custom of the time — as quadrilles and waltzes . |
| 17 | Twenty thousand people took to the streets of the Lithuanian capital , Vilnius , to mourn a man who became a martyr for the Republic 's bid for independence from Moscow . |
| 18 | The inaugural meeting overflowed the Central Hall , Westminster , where 5,000 people listened to the historian A. J. P. Taylor listing the effects of an H-Bomb explosion . |
| 19 | Before the advent of the National Health Service in 1948 , prudent people belonged to the Infirmary League and one or other of the sick clubs run by Friendly Societies such as The Ancient Order of Foresters , The Oddfellows , The Rechabites and The National Deposit . |
| 20 | On Saturday , January 26 , 3,000 people took to the streets of London in the annual Bloody Sunday commemoration demonstration . |
| 21 | Britain 's current race relations legislation was framed , in the mid-1970s , on the assumption that all people aspired to the white indigenous way of life . |
| 22 | Many people connected to the heavyweight game in the US believe a Bowe-Lewis fight will take place next year — but in America , most likely in Las Vegas . |
| 23 | He wrote two books : The Living Brain ( 1953 ) , which was popular science and was the first introduction that many people had to the brain , and a novel , Further Outlook ( 1956 ) , which was not very successful . |
| 24 | Many people write to the group and consider themselves ‘ friends ’ but Gedge himself concedes that there are precious few people with whom he is genuinely close . |
| 25 | How many people went to the school roughly would you say ? |
| 26 | It 's not how many people come to the first night of your tour in Windsor , it 's what they do when they get there . |
| 27 | It is an international attraction and we are planning to do a study later this year in Pennan to find out how many people come to the village and why . |
| 28 | many people coming to the sales . |
| 29 | The condemnation of the figures that the hon. Gentleman has read out is that in those boroughs we need never have had so many liability orders or so many people taken to the courts or threatened with prison if they had not been misled by Labour Members of Parliament and councillors into running up enormous debts . |
| 30 | In Kwangju itself , more than 100,000 people took to the streets where they fought running battles with riot police late into the night . |