Example sentences of "people [verb] [adv prt] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | confusing because you 've got two people bringing in the ideas , |
| 2 | That is , according to false memory syndrome theorists , somehow the process of therapy , the process of disclosure , the process of interviewing people to find out the details of the abuse , somehow that constructs the abuse itself , somehow that 's erm the thing that 's that 's causing the memories . |
| 3 | ‘ And are n't I the one forever telling people to find out the facts first ? |
| 4 | The sufferer has to want to seek help and will not want to do so if other people cover up the consequences of addictive disease . |
| 5 | ‘ One is a world of natural phenomena , or light and rain and people passing down the roads , or things happening , or excitement and peace and of music ending . |
| 6 | When there were no Red Cross parcels at all you began to notice that people sized up the rations of margarine before they helped themselves , and though you despised them for it you were none the less sharp to do it yourself . |
| 7 | When a different set of people takes up the questions , this becomes obvious . |
| 8 | Joseph 's people pulled up the stakes that the surveyors planted , but after the ratification of the Thief Treaty the next year , they continued to arrive . |
| 9 | Please do not think that only suicidal people ring up the Samaritans . |
| 10 | It was half-past four , when the dairy people brought in the cows . |
| 11 | It 's , it 's living in harmony I suppose will be the word you know the , the environment sort of moves in to the power station and does n't get attacked , everywhere else gets attacked you know , people scrub up the weeds in the garden and things like that , here they 're allowed to grow , the butterflies come in , insects , great you know just , just love it . |
| 12 | She watched groups of people come round the winners , groups of friends going into the two pubs on the harbour street , people hailing each other , saving places of vantage on the wall for their friends . |
| 13 | Well , I mean , it 's a sticky wicket for them anyway politically and I suspect as with a lot of legislation quite recently they simply have n't spent the time in committee and in consultation to iron out the details and they 've come unstuck when it 's come into the public domain and it 's been easy for people to throw up the paradoxes that are coming up from the legislation , the moral paradoxes . |
| 14 | Some people pointed out the advantages of their work from a personal point of view . |
| 15 | In contrast , a few people pointed out the disadvantages that could arise as a result of being disabled when interacting with patients or clients . |