Example sentences of "people [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite recent generalizations about the violence and aggression which supposedly typify societies of tropical forest in South America ( see , for instance , Sanday 1981 : 193 ) , these peoples vary considerably in the degree and the kind of violence allowed in everyday life . |
| 2 | In western Siberia , while Turkic tribes from the steppes moved into the southern fringe of the forest and pressed upon the Samoeds , the Ugrian ( Khanty and Mansi ) peoples moving eastward from the Ural mountains into the Ob-Irtysh basin also mixed with the Samoeds , who by then occupied the northern forest and tundra from the White Sea in the west almost to the Lena in the east . |
| 3 | It was obviously desirable for such stores to have a trusting public image which invited people to indulge freely in the convenience of spending money without actually paying it out . |
| 4 | Even in the earlier period , however , it was difficult to hold back the commercial urges of line managers , though some marketing effort was initially canalised into the job of discouraging the sale of electric fires or persuading people to go carefully in the use of electricity at peak times . |
| 5 | ( 145 ) I asked if this was because television was causing fewer people to go out to the cinema and she replied no . |
| 6 | Conventionally , we would expect people to borrow up to the point where the utility gained from the last pound borrowed is just equal to the cost of borrowing it . |
| 7 | We get people hanging around outside the flat . |
| 8 | People got through to the Prince who should not have , and those who should have did n't . |
| 9 | Only three people got out of the train . |
| 10 | Andrew Carnegie was one of those enlightened people who provided libraries for rural areas on the mainland and certainly not the only one ; sometimes people got together under the leadership of the minister or the doctor and formed their own society . |
| 11 | The 1990 Dinner was held on Saturday 22 September when 28 people got together in the Reception bar of the Private Dining Room suite in University House before proceeding to enjoy an excellent meal in the pleasant setting of PDR4 . |
| 12 | These people cared deeply about the success of the venture because they cared about their own livelihoods , the future of their children and the very breath of their dying community . |
| 13 | For the quarter of a million people expected here over the weekend , it should be quite a show . |
| 14 | THE Government 's scheme to encourage people to contract out of the state earnings related pension scheme ( SERPS ) via personal pensions has produced results way beyond expectations . |
| 15 | Many of these people lived largely without the agent of money , and survived by bartering what excess produce they had . |
| 16 | The people lived both on the edge of the world and on the edge of the battle . |
| 17 | THE switchboard of The Northern was jammed yesterday morning with people phoning up with the answer to Saturday 's Stiff Little Fingers competition . |
| 18 | His firm commitment to flexibilIty in the education of deaf people contributed significantly to the surging emancipation of deaf children everywhere from the yoke of generations of denial . |
| 19 | On March 3 several tens of thousands of people demonstrated peacefully in the capital , Bamako , in support of multiparty politics and an end to " rule by violence " . |
| 20 | People scrambled away from the centre of the Operations Room in panic . |
| 21 | SMOKING among 16–19 year olds in Britain has dropped by some 15 per cent over the past decade , according to a new survey of the habits of young people carried out by the Cancer Research Campaign . |
| 22 | Best of all , he tells of the people caught up on the fringes of small wars , and finds in their resilience the small mercies of his title . |
| 23 | They will be used on humanitarian aid projects by UN High Commission for Refugees teams providing urgently-needed food , blankets and clothing to people caught up in the Balkan conflict . |
| 24 | A at the moment what happens is individual people report back to the clerk , |
| 25 | We try to tackle the problem at all ends — to prevent young people ending up on the streets , to provide a roof over their heads , and to search for long-term solutions . |
| 26 | So these people moved away into the Pennine valleys . |
| 27 | Here and there a few people moved about amongst the chicken coops and the junk : a girl chasing a goose into a pen , a boy flying a kite . |
| 28 | The Community Interpreter Project was set up in 1983 to develop and pilot a practical model which would enable people to communicate effectively within the context of the main public services in a multi-lingual Britain . |
| 29 | That Sunday , people shouted angrily in the streets . |
| 30 | ‘ There were people climbing all over the graves with cameras . |