Example sentences of "they [verb] that [adj] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jamaicans usually claim to be able to understand everything said in Standard English ; it comes as something of a shock to many of them to find that English people can by no means always understand them . |
| 2 | Student leaders say they fear that young people could be brainwashed by the organisation . |
| 3 | After all , they choose to buy their own newspapers and may be bound , psychologically , to defend their own chosen paper even if they accept that other people 's papers are biased . |
| 4 | This is because a very common thing among people with mental illness , which is not properly understood , is the way they feel that other people can read their mind . |
| 5 | They feared that well-meaning people giving out money to the poor would merely encourage the ‘ non-deserving ’ poor to pursue their lazy and irresponsible ways . |
| 6 | ( It is paradoxically liberals who provide me with my argument for this when they argue that violent people can be ‘ understood ’ since they know no other language with which to express their inarticulate aggro . |