Example sentences of "[coord] people [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No cars or people moved in the street outside . |
| 2 | There are no trade union representatives , or people nominated by the Scottish TUC . |
| 3 | Stocker was at pains to say : ‘ We have nothing which could be tested on humans … nothing yet which can help Aids patients or people infected with the Aids virus or any other virus . ’ |
| 4 | On one December Saturday , Hannah sat in the Craven Herald Bookshop in Skipton and people queued through the premises , out of the door , down an alleyway and along the High Street . |
| 5 | It was a fortnight now since it had started with such a hullabaloo , but there had been no raids , and no bombs had been dropped ; the sirens went and people made for the shelters , but more and more half-heartedly , as days passed and nothing exciting happened . |
| 6 | Then the front door was smashed down and people streamed into the house . |
| 7 | After Calgary ( population : 400,000 ; rail service after January : one train a week , summer only ) we were in the mountains , and people crowded into the dome car for the high spot of the trip . |
| 8 | the weather on that September day in 1859 was fine and people crowded into the town in great numbers . |
| 9 | The new King 's Cross scheme is vital as a national project , and for commuters and people living in the capital . |
| 10 | The argument is one of many currently raging between Sefton Council and people living in the town once known as the Garden City of the North . |
| 11 | At her parents home in Parkgate , The Grange , she said : ‘ I do n't intend to start smoking and I do n't like being in the company of people who smoke , especially when we are on holiday abroad and people smoke at the table . ’ |
| 12 | In the depressed countryside there was a considerable fund of labour to be tapped and people flowed from the uncertainties of seasonal rural poverty to the equally depressing conditions of the Brighton back streets . |
| 13 | Then suddenly the stars began to show up and people gathered round the ropes and paid attention . |
| 14 | Housing need and we do it and people come to the top of that register and get housed because of dire housing need , nothing to do with financial status . |
| 15 | ‘ The town hall was used for the toxic waste inquiry and the Butler Sloss inquiry and people affected by the issues had ready access , he said . ’ |
| 16 | The sound of an approaching band and people gathering outside the Butcher 's Arms heralds the highlight of the feast , the united sing . |
| 17 | There were large noses sticking into the lens , and people waving at the camera . |
| 18 | Middlestone Moor Youth Centre is looking for new members and people to serve on the committee . |
| 19 | Clients are often confused about treatments , as in the vignette quoted left , where the image of the laboratory test-tube , rather than a Petri dish , is still common currency and people talk about the GIFT operation ( gamete-intra-fallopian transfer ) as if indeed they are about to receive a ‘ gift ’ . |
| 20 | There have of course been many other television programmes which have touched on the subject of mental handicap , including series such as ‘ Let's Go ’ , a weekly series for the mentally handicapped launched in 1981 , and followed by a second series in 1983 , and ‘ Accident of Birth ’ , a series mainly for parents and people working with the mentally handicapped broadcast in early 1982 . |
| 21 | The purpose of this text is to help students of hotel and catering management and people working within the catering professions towards a better understanding of those principles of English law which closely affect them in their day-to-day work in the hotel and catering industry . |
| 22 | This ‘ test and isolate ’ approach , of which Cuba is an extreme example , has been universally condemned by AIDS activists and people working in the AIDS/HIV field who advocate community-based education , support and treatment , and research . |
| 23 | Hostages were to be freed and people returned to the villages from which they had been deported . |
| 24 | Small industries were destroyed and people driven to the cities where they were forced to switch from home-grown food to imported processed food . |
| 25 | There 's loads of shops with their lights on and traffic and people hurrying along the pavement . |
| 26 | The long-term trends in population redistribution during the latter half of the twentieth century have broadly been serving to undo the principal features of population change in the nineteenth century when the North 's share of national population increased and people concentrated into the major urban and industrial agglomerations . |
| 27 | And people walking on the pavement all it totally and I thought what a cheek . |
| 28 | Pie day had dawned bright and clear but tons of straw and cinders had to be hastily brought in as vehicles and people sank in the mud caused by the torrential rain of the past few days . |
| 29 | Within this discourse nation and people converged under the natural leadership of a Conservative Party which appointed itself as guardian , committed to the defence of their integrity against attack from hostile or alien forces . |
| 30 | The eyes can be particularly revealing , and people vary in the amount of eye contact they make and maintain while communicating . |