Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [verb] other [n mass] " in BNC.

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1 He argued that I should treat other people 's wants and needs as constraints upon the satisfaction of my own .
2 It 's about er ten years ago nearly that I er stopped being a teacher and when I was a teacher er up having to do assemblies er it was always something that I did with great reluctance and er was er pleased if I could get other people to do it er it seems rather odd then er that I 've actually said yes coming to do er an assembly here today and it 's perhaps a sign of mental instability on my part .
3 I could understand other people 's language but not my own .
4 So whatever I felt , I 'd think other people had worse .
5 Chairman , I , I could go on but I , I think I 'd like other people to have a say .
6 If I went into a club or something , I would notice other people 's clothes , and the label , even though I think it 's silly in a way , and I know they 'd notice mine .
7 ‘ No , but I can light other people 's now .
8 As so claims that was a rather naff comment actually , I ca n't imagine that , well I can imagine other people wearing big earrings because they 're super confident .
9 It was as if it meant that you should love yourself as much as you should love other people .
10 You 'll want other people to be you campaign manager , your agent , your press agent and whatever .
11 Using the theory that always borrow other people 's money , and you 'll spend other people 's money is the best way is n't it ?
12 And she 'd like to take part in the advanced driving course so she can spin other people 's cars instead of mine , and pass them .
13 You can copy other people 's ideas and follow their suggestions , but ultimately the real satisfaction comes from designing your own colour scheme and knowing that the entire creation is yours alone .
14 You take Shallot 's advice on this : the power of witchcraft lies in what you can make other people think .
15 Do all that you can to encourage other people in your class who are struggling with certain subjects and activities .
16 If you stay still , you can hear other people moving towards you long before they can see you .
17 Usually , I know exactly what I want , but it is much better if you can get other people to do it and let them take the credit .
18 You can question other people , other people might have that knowledge and you can question and clarify and form in your mind the ideas that you need and maybe put them to the group as a group .
19 We may expect other people to fear rejection in the same way that we do , and be surprised by their directness .
20 If we do n't succeed in this then we may require other people to act as our parents , or we may regard others as a threat to this self-sufficiency and therefore avoid intimacy .
21 We then followed the River Orwell to the bridge before going home in the distance we could see other aircraft .
22 And if we were to ban the the process , th erm we would devise other means for research , would , we would find alternatives .
23 ‘ There 's a lot of good local players and we will do things from my album , we will cover other people 's music , even do a couple of Genesis songs .
24 We assume , in both the individual and the political cases , that we can recognize other people 's acts as expressing a conception of fairness or justice or decency even when we do not endorse that conception ourselves .
25 We have to learn to value ourselves before we can expect other people to like us .
26 Somebody once said that if angelism , sharing the gospel was one beggar telling another beggar about bread , where it could be found and undoubtedly when he was saying that he was thinking of that story that account that we had read to us earlier from the second book of kings , chapter seven , and I 'd like us to er turn back to us for a few moments this morning and perhaps draw some lessons for ourselves Sometimes as Christians its very easier for us to say what sins are , and we can see other people 's failings , you do n't have to be a Christian to do that of course , plenty of other people can do that , they see the failings of other people , they see the wrong doing they do , they see their wickedness their , their waywardness , whatever words we want to use to describe it , and we say well that is sin , perhaps for most of us this morning we could make er a list a , a , a tabulate a table of sins and we might say well they are worse sins and there are lesser sins and I would I suppose by and large there would be a fairly reasonable consensus of opinion regarding what was sins and what were not sins .
27 May we open our eyes to the problems in the world around us and may we do whatever we can to make other people 's lives happier .
28 Or , if they drink and then drive , they may put other people 's lives at risk .
29 Seasonal workers do not have the security of full-time employment , since they must seek other means of support for part of the year .
30 But it was a time when the boy and his mother , who lived in a little cottage just outside the town , had to earn their living from growing their own vegetables and doing what they could to help other people in order to make a living .
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