Example sentences of "[coord] [det] people [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And some people say that 's the best thing that happened to it being voted that cos it meant people had done things about it and sorted it out but you think it 's still dull as |
| 2 | So it 's not , it 's not a question of any one government , or the voluntary organisations or the companies putting pressure , it 's a question of all of them working out mechanisms by which they can persuade more and more people to join this particular movement . |
| 3 | and more and more people chooses more and more |
| 4 | In traditional society this would not be regarded as sponging or parasitism , for it was felt that one 's relationship to one 's own son was no closer than that to the sons of siblings , and most people had more nephews than sons . |
| 5 | Freud was a Hobbesian thinker , erm , in the sense that the id , certainly was egoistic , anti-social and everything that Thomas Hobbes said about human nature , er , could apply to the id , that 's perfectly true , and most people see this , and it 's er it , it 's a commonplace , particularly in the social science writing on Freud . |
| 6 | And most people think that 's what a contract is . |
| 7 | I have heard many other definitions ( not all of them polite ) , but most people agree that advancement of some sort features in their long-term plans for the future . |