Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adj] people do " in BNC.
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| 1 | as far as part time work goes and supply work , because erm that work is sort of quite spasmodic I suppose it can be I mean some people do a regular amount some do bits here and there . |
| 2 | but erm you know I mean some people do actually get total , totally pissed off with the university and the course and everything and , and decide to chuck it in , you know , er in which case |
| 3 | Yeah that 's right , I mean some people do n't |
| 4 | Yeah well I mean most people do , I mean |
| 5 | Oh right erm but er well you can , you can get away without , without buying stuff erm I mean as I , as I say some people do end up sharing erm some people do end up , not that there 's very much library stock very often but , you know , some people do |
| 6 | ‘ I imagine most people do . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Then I hope these people do n't know either although they seem to know a lot . |
| 8 | I know other people do n't feel like this . |
| 9 | I know some people did but no . |
| 10 | You ca n't sort of say — well , I know some people do — but I ca n't say ‘ I wo n't pay that bill because I 've got to buy some food . ’ |
| 11 | And I know these people do n't feel free , I know they 're all hurrying along or sitting there worrying about their jobs or their mortgages or being late or an IRA bomb in the nearest litter-bin , but I look at them and feel a terrible sense of loss , because I think I 've surrendered all this ; the ordinariness of life , the ability just to be part of it and take part in it . |
| 12 | ‘ He was a very unique person and I saw him more deeply than I think other people did . |
| 13 | I think some people do think that is selfish and that marriage is about bringing up a family and looking after the house . ’ |
| 14 | Yeah , I think some people do n't want er , the fathers having any sort of rights over them , they do n't want the access er , to the children , so in a way , they prefer to go it alone . |
| 15 | I think some people do give generously when buying raffle tickets and particularly they like the fact that the tickets are so cheap , so we should continue to give them that option . |
| 16 | erm so cautious or adventurous , I think most people do n't , I mean I 've got adventurous on my form but it never gets ticked , because nobody 's adventurous when they retire . |
| 17 | I wonder more people do n't go in for that sort of thing . |
| 18 | Well I notice some people do do n't they ? |
| 19 | When you want other people to do things for you , then style should be polite and you may need to persuade them to co-operate . |
| 20 | It , it 's just a question of I suppose whether you do it or you get other people to do it or or what . |
| 21 | One apparent stumbling block to mounting more research is that we lack qualified people to do it or the resources to employ or deploy them , but as so often , a wider and less conventional look at the problem reveals one possible solution . |
| 22 | c ) They want local people to do local jobs . |
| 23 | They pay clever people to do that for them — people who , collectively , go under the name of the Cabinet Office Assessments Staff . |
| 24 | There were n't , we did it singly and it made more people did n't it ? |
| 25 | It has regular people doing their own thing . |