Example sentences of "[v-ing] people [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A disembodied voice came over the amplifiers instructing people to move outside the ropes . |
| 2 | So there 's no chance of getting rid of all these coaches and getting people to walk round the er the guided tours and stuff like that ? |
| 3 | Dr Mitchell has spent the last five months getting people to write to the Royal Mail Stamp Programme Manager in London to lobby for a set of stamps honouring his father 's work . |
| 4 | It still helped the remote chance of getting people to come to the meetings . |
| 5 | After consultation with the police the council is asking people to gather on the Boulevard and the nearby Gloucester Street car park , at the rear of the library , which has been reserved for them . |
| 6 | There would also be the difficulty of finding people to look after the farms while they were away . |
| 7 | In this context , it is likely that changes in the nature of marital relations resulting from the increasingly private nature of family life , together with an increasing tendency by working people to plan for the future , were the most important variables explaining the decrease in working class fertility during the inter-war years , at a time when the employed working man enjoyed a more regular and higher real wage than ever before . |