Example sentences of "be [verb] [noun] to people " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you find tha that that you 're you 're bringing traditions to people ? |
| 2 | When you 're giving feedback to people , yes , there were going to bad things about what they 've done , yes , there 's going to be good things , but if you can catch the bad things between two good things , even if the good things are just saying thank you , they 're going to go away with a bigger smile on their face , and probably feel more motivated for the next time they do that task . |
| 3 | I mean , I think a lot of national organisations that are giving , I trust that are giving money to people actually do want to know that sort of detail about where the money is going , because , if I go through this , I mean , I would have to say that I should imagine that a very small percentage of the money that has been collected on these flag days will actually get back into Oxfordshire . |
| 4 | she 'll be subletting rooms to people . |
| 5 | Well I think the er right honourable gentleman knows for both I and my right honourable friend the chancellor have made the position quite clear , that the extra value added tax is a vital part of our policies to get public borrowing down but that we will be offering help to people who are vulnerable . |
| 6 | yeah , one will always be there if you 've got , if , if you 've got a job , the other one is very iffy and yet they were lending money to people who right , right , rightly in their minds have , and as Maggie T said oh yes go on , go , yeah , independence and all that , erm they were going out , never having done it before , no tradition in , in maybe in their family of doing it before , got this goal this sort of Disney World ideal you know erm , sort of make believe world who are we gon na be and we 're gon na be dreaming the dream , the dream |
| 7 | ‘ The idea is to give holidays to people who otherwise could n't afford them , ’ said a spokeswoman . |
| 8 | The main aim of emergency planning is to reduce risk to people , equipment and the environment . |
| 9 | ‘ A big part is giving talks to people about the work of the trust . |
| 10 | Most of non-statutory work is giving advice to people like control , and others , which may not be purely statutory in the sense that is , but the major difference is there 's a time when it 's imposed on when we have to do it . |
| 11 | And he gets a lot of publicity out of this by er , being photographed with Ted Heath , by announcing that he 's showing clemency to people who are convicted by the Iraqi courts , and that really people should n't hold too much against him . |
| 12 | The aim was to confine attention to people who had frequent contact with the dementia sufferer , rather than interviewing all nearest relatives , who might or might not have contact with him or her . |
| 13 | Mission Volga 's main purpose was to bring hope to people in the midst of hopelessness in a country of continued political unrest and financial chaos . |