Example sentences of "[subord] people [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if people stay in the same rank order , the argument runs that the only way to make ‘ have-nots ’ into ‘ haves ’ is via economic growth , to which high taxation and transfers are seen as inimical . |
| 2 | If people hear about the boy , he thought , perhaps they will want me to pay for their lost chickens and their disappearing sheep . |
| 3 | It may seem obvious to you that coffee cups belong in the top cupboard , but if people get into the habit of leaving them in the sink and you allow them to do that ( even when it irritates you ) it will be difficult to get them to change . |
| 4 | It 's like , cos if people look through the door , yeah they 'll see it |
| 5 | Accepting that if people learn on the job then they must have demands and challenges in their work |
| 6 | ‘ If people start with the right attitude then there will be no problem . ’ |
| 7 | Well , for me yes , because erm there are now things like the Independent Living Fund , things like that , if people fit into the right boxes and contact the right people , then they can get some sort of help but I mean , it 's still an absolute maze out there for anybody who does n't have that sort of back up . |
| 8 | in 1992 , everything ( apparently ) starts with a D. With D-Ream and D-Influence leading the new D-Mobs , it would be a shame if people passed over the name D*Note . |
| 9 | The night before the wedding , they went out to all their favourite haunts — 1997 , Rick 's Café , the Go-Down — and ended up at two in the morning getting out of a taxi in Wan Chai , the neon blazing in the hot night , dark-eyed Chinese girls in brightly lit doorways , American sailors talking to them while people slept on the pavements and steaming noodles were served at three dollars a bowl at the poor-man 's lean-to restaurant . |
| 10 | While people look to the Tories to make money , they look to Labour to spend it to more social purpose . |
| 11 | Another intriguing question is whether people congregated at the Cocks because it was a crossroads or because a public house there provided warmth . |
| 12 | The advice is the same as that given for westward flights — though , of course , whether people living in the new time zone are awake or sleeping will differ . |
| 13 | The terms of the agreement were as follows : that political prisoners were to be released and the relevant ordinances withdrawn ; that civil disobedience was to be stopped ; that the boycott of British goods would cease , though ‘ peaceful picketing ’ could continue ; that there would be no change in the salt laws , though people living by the sea could make some for personal consumption ; and that Congress was to be represented at future sessions of the Round Table conference , the agreed agenda being federation , ‘ Indian responsibility ’ , and ‘ reservations or safeguards in the interests of India for such matters as , for instance , defence ; external affairs ; the position of minorities ; the financial credit of India , and the discharge of obligations ’ . |
| 14 | This worked very well , but in 1988 people were pushing in from the sides instead of joining the queues , and tempers were becoming frayed and the situation somewhat dangerous as people trampled over the numerous electricity cables and water pipes . |
| 15 | Streets are blocked and atheism has to give way as people kneel in the streets and cross themselves with the sign of the Holy Trinity . ) |
| 16 | I sat back expecting to be proved right and watched as people joined in the discussion and debate . |
| 17 | The NHS used to fund such officers when patients lived in long-stay hospitals , but as people moved into the community their role was forgotten . |
| 18 | As people went to the polls in the Serb-held city of Banja Luka in northern Bosnia , bulldozers cleared away the remains of two 16th-century mosques blown up the previous week . |
| 19 | For a moment she lost her mother in the crowd of horses and riders and foot followers , as people jostled for the best position , or to ride alongside their fancy . |
| 20 | The numbers swelled later as people streamed to the Neumarkt square after work to hear the Chancellor speaking in front of the church ruins . |
| 21 | ‘ Nothing 's ever too late , ’ said Constance , as people do in the face of this assertion , regardless of the truth . |
| 22 | By Oct. 17 rioting had broken out as people protested at the authorities ' slow response . |
| 23 | He was followed shortly afterwards by the sound of wooden clogs on cobble stones as people hurried to the mill before the hooter started . |
| 24 | The fabric of society collapsed , as people sided with the King or Parliament . |
| 25 | He heard many voices as people passed on the pathway from the bridge to the ramp . |
| 26 | Picture to yourself the furore which they will make in the world when people read on the title-page that they have been composed by a seven-year-old child ; and when the sceptics are challenged to test him , as he already has been , imagine the sensation when he asks someone to write down a minuet or some tune or other and then immediately and without touching the clavier writes in the bass and , if it is wanted , the second violin part … every day God performs fresh miracles through this child . |
| 27 | In behavioural terms this usually occurs when people participating in the meeting get locked into an information loop . |
| 28 | The snow sparkled in the sunshine outside the window and nobody really minded much when people came into the room and said ‘ Happy Christmas ’ . |
| 29 | When people came to the doors they stood on the step talking and looking over at our side of the street . |
| 30 | When people cough in the movies , it is usually a sure sign they are going to die . |