Example sentences of "people [verb] [prep] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The atrocities against people referred to in the letter were horrific yet the point you used to ‘ highlight ’ them was ‘ what man would want women or girls that had been raped ? ’ |
| 2 | What people objected to in the end was not God , as I 'd thought , but the suburban house in the background and the garden out of House and Garden . |
| 3 | The feedback we get is that we 're the ones from Manchester that people look to for the music . |
| 4 | It used to be taken for granted that the person who earned the highest salary in an organisation was the general manager or managing director : the one at the top , the one that most people look to as the boss . |
| 5 | All the Jewish laws are derived from the first five books of the Old Testament , or what Jewish people refer to as the Torah , or the five books of Moses ; we believe that these laws were given by God to the Jewish people . |
| 6 | There were different nuances in terms of what people thought of as the barriers and how they thought they could be overcome . |
| 7 | I do not think I knew who Plato was at the time , but I enjoyed hearing Mr Crossman speak , and seeing the other pupils , although they were mostly people thought of in the town as being particularly well-educated already . |
| 8 | No , people sitting across in the other benches saying of course they can are wrong . |
| 9 | Organizations that seek innovation ought to learn from this kind of experience : allow people to move outside of the orthodoxy of an area , to mix and match , to shake up assumptions . |