Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] other people 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faced with the challenge of being original in this way , some student writers believe that they should copy or adapt other people 's work because it is bound to be of better quality than their own . |
| 2 | The then modish humanity had gone into a violent reaction against the ancient severity , ‘ and might almost be supposed to see in the fact of having lost or squandered other people 's property a peculiar title to indulgence . ‘ |
| 3 | Instead of being eroded , classes intermediate between capital and the manual working class have consistently expanded in size : wage-earners who supervise or control other people 's labour , people in non-manual jobs , and state employees . |
| 4 | This is not just a matter of showing that you are not stealing or plagiarising other people 's work . |
| 5 | Given that private conversations between journalists and politicians take place all the time as the former seek their exclusives and the latter seek to further their policies or careers ( or to wreck other people 's ) , it is strangely perverse to ignore perhaps the most authoritative off-the-record source of all , Mr Bernard Ingham . |
| 6 | This is a general problem with copying or paraphrasing other people 's work : your goals are different from theirs , and so the structure of your argument will also be different . |
| 7 | Instead of withdrawing and being generally anti-social , as I had been , I began to argue with people — teachers and pupils alike — and to disrupt other people 's activities for the sake of disruption . |
| 8 | If what we look like can influence how we feel about ourselves and influence other people 's attitudes , then let us cash in on it by taking an interest in appearance . |
| 9 | The absence of her own , however , has enabled her to spend a lifetime amusing and instructing other people 's . |
| 10 | Of course , and if you go back to the answer Beana was giving , even within a country if you try if we try and solve other people 's problems , one is very likely , if not always , to end up with those sorts of difficulties . |
| 11 | I had developed a deft hand at writing bills and counterfeiting other people 's signatures , my master 's included . |
| 12 | Sentencing , Judge David Bryant told the gang : ‘ Dishonest people like you who choose to make your living out of stealing , transforming and selling other people 's motor cars can expect substantial sentences of imprisonment . ’ |
| 13 | I never thought about going into shops and stealing other people 's things before I came here ; that never crossed my mind . |
| 14 | To write off the ideas and conclusions which one has reached in order to allow an accommodation with other people 's expectations may mean getting rid of a conclusion which the manager had reached after listening to and observing other people 's experience . |
| 15 | Write it out to read it back , not for publishers to petrify and clog other people 's heads with stone thoughts . |
| 16 | They sometimes find it difficult to see other people 's point of view and to interpret other people 's behaviour . |
| 17 | Modelling the physical world and modelling other people 's models share the same developmental procedures . |
| 18 | Men are more high-powered and enjoy selling , persuading and changing other people 's opinions . |
| 19 | Tell you the truth , I 'm sick to death of the lot of it , but I ca n't think of anything to do with it that wo n't have my old man haunting me and have other people 's feelings hurt . |
| 20 | The argument goes that it is women who are in fact doing all the reproducing of labour power and servicing other people 's escapes . |
| 21 | Risking one 's own life on the crag is fine , but risking other people 's lives by brainless , Al Harris-type macho driving , should not be celebrated in your magazine . |