Example sentences of "[n mass] 's [noun sg] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will not always be understood , or always understand people 's response to you , but plunge in anyway . |
| 2 | There are several examples of this process in this Special Issue as well as examples of people 's resistance to it . |
| 3 | Attempts on the part of the client to interact with other people as well as the nature of other people 's contact to them ( positive , negative , conversation , or assistance ) and each person 's challenging behaviour was also recorded , using individually specified definitions . |
| 4 | The most depressing aspect of this latest coup crisis — the sixth since Mrs Aquino took office — is the absence in the streets of the people 's power to whom she owes her own position . |
| 5 | It was also suggested that he was using Interior Ministry files to discredit political opponents , and thereby promote the Czechoslovakian People 's Party to which he belonged , in the lead-up to the June elections . |
| 6 | We agreed that the lack of action was an outrage and that we had to draw people 's attention to it . |
| 7 | ‘ I suppose I assumed you could n't cope with people 's reaction to your breaking up with Jennifer when you learnt she had MS . ’ |
| 8 | I learnt how white activists can use other people 's oppression to their own political ends by wresting the control and direction of sit-ins and occupations and so on , from the hands of those it clearly affects . |
| 9 | The white official parliamentary opposition Conservative Party leader , Andries Treurnicht , said in a strongly worded statement that de Klerk 's plans for change had plunged whites into " a struggle for our freedom " to defend " our people 's claim to its own country and right to self-government " . |
| 10 | It was water off a duck 's back to him . |