Example sentences of "[art] people [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you believe that women , and not planners , should be the people to decide on the size of families they have , then this is the book for you . |
| 2 | It was from the people gathered on the rim of this amphitheatre in the dunes that the sighing came . |
| 3 | Seeing the flowers from tepees , the people gathered on the hill and sang and danced their thanks to the Great Spirits who had sent the blooms as a sign of their forgiveness . |
| 4 | This was when the people living on the Georgia coast in the southeast corner of the United States began growing and eating maize . |
| 5 | Seventy per cent of the people living on the estate had no wage and depended on state benefits . |
| 6 | They found that the people living on the estate did not have such intimate contact with their extended kin network . |
| 7 | The people living on the estates , especially the elderly , tended to be isolated , and a number of new residents felt lonely and insecure . |
| 8 | ‘ Wo n't that seem odd — to the people living on the ground floor — to have everything around them squashed up ? ’ |
| 9 | This expropriation took the form of tithes , taxes and labour in kind in return for the physical protection of the people living on the land by the noble landowners . |
| 10 | That 's the people playing on the violin for the orchestra . |
| 11 | in as ah , well , yes , that 's an interesting thing actually because it 's not clear that the people sleeping on the streets in London belong to any class . |
| 12 | The idea of this is for all the people to pull on the rope as hard as possible . |
| 13 | What the people wanted on the fen was what they had already : grazing . |
| 14 | I embarrassed him terribly — in my loudest voice — in front of all the people working on the reception desk , and a separate room was very quickly found for me . |
| 15 | He did n't have much finesse to do the things but erm and I think he used to sh he although I I got on all right with him , but some of the people working on the floor like the wardrobe people and that he used to they used to dislike him because he was but I would but you do find s I think perhaps he was a bit unsure of himself because I do n't think he was somebody who 'd had a had a tremendous education , otherwise he probably would n't have gone in on the on the construction side which was being a chippy or something at Shepherds Bush and so you know you often find people like that they have a bit of a chip on their shoulders do n't they you know , you know . |
| 16 | They think the people walking on the street out there are dreaming of the moment when they can become capitalist serfs again . |
| 17 | Robyn thinks she must be in Angleside , because the faces of the people slithering on the pavements or huddled miserably at bus-stops are mostly swarthy and dark-eyed , and the bright silks of saris , splashed with mud , gleam beneath the hems of the women 's drab topcoats . |