Example sentences of "[subord] people [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Show it up if people had done all of it with it , but now it does n't look in with it yet . |
| 2 | Madeleine said : they could n't be buried in the cemetery if people had forgotten all about them and did n't know where they were , could they ? |
| 3 | If people come to expect that interest rates will normally be higher than they used to be , then any given interest rate will seem lower relative to the ‘ normal ’ rate than it used to be . |
| 4 | If people cared to read that record , they would know that for two and a half hours the Liberal Democrats proved beyond — |
| 5 | I never found it to be a boring job , erm if it is boring I think it 's because they 're only making it , if they make it that way and I think it 's partly due , if they , if people do talk that way then I think it 's partly due to the sort of duty systems that people work now , and erm the number of hours they work , and , and strangely for little things like the introduction of television , I think television , very nice in its way but it 's killed life on fire stations and in certain areas , cos the whole business of conversation and learning and so on has gone , people would much sooner sit nowadays in front of the television and be entertained for an evening , instead of using all the other skills and , and erm things that are offered to them . |
| 6 | even if people do read these contracts , or these warranties , or these extended service contracts , they might not know what they 're buying even if it 's read to them , because it 's in a particular kind of jargon . |
| 7 | eh , its a free country and you should be able to choose what you want to do yourself er , if something is damaging to your health then I would agree , yes , smoking I do n't agree with smoking but if people want to smoke that 's entirely up to them , they know the risks , I would n't smoke , I know the risks but vegetarianism is purely a matter of choice and there 's no peop people that harp on about you should n't eat meat , get on my nerves |
| 8 | If people want to exchange any goods , they will do so by barter . |
| 9 | SUN man Paul Welford has reported him to the police , and Flashman said : ‘ If people want to do that , then fair enough . |
| 10 | Erm you know , not just er something that is er created and left there , it 's with that erm the the thing in mind , that if if people want to have some place where they can get together , in the kind of atmosphere that they want . |
| 11 | Various strategies are developed to handle potential conflicts that can not be overcome because people keep meeting each other . |
| 12 | You might very well say that you were the greatest law lecturer in the world , because people tend to say these things about themselves . |
| 13 | ‘ There is no doubt that Charles has been offered major works at good prices ’ , says one dealer , ‘ because people wanted to see those works in his great collection ; artists have sold him paintings that they would not have sold to anyone else , and they feel betrayed . ’ |
| 14 | Koontz , O'Donnell and Weihrich formulate the principle that ‘ since people tend to follow those whom they see as a means of satisfying their own personal goals , the more managers understand what motivates their subordinates and how these motivations operate , and the more they reflect this understanding in carrying out their managerial actions , the more effective leaders they are likely to be . ’ |
| 15 | I fear that safety standards will go down the drain as people seek to make most profit . |
| 16 | Extroverted noisy people get selected more than the others , and this game can produce a great deal of fun as people struggle to eliminate all possible clues . |
| 17 | You can also play this with a number of boards , but it is best to avoid tagging each other by board contact , which becomes rather dangerous as people start ramming each other . |
| 18 | Huge queues formed outside shops as people tried to spend all their savings before they were devalued . |
| 19 | When people wished to resist this ranking they went to some lengths to do so in a symbolic and more or less public way . |
| 20 | I get very alarmed when people plan to shed all they 've got for this fleeting , ephemeral happiness . |
| 21 | However , a problem arose when people tried to extend this independence of the speed of the observer to the laws that govern the motion of light . |