Example sentences of "people [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of putting their money into business , people lent it to the government in the hope that ERNIE ( the nickname of the Electronic Random Number Indicator ) would select their number for the top prize ( then ) of a modest £1,000 . |
| 2 | Few people used it during the day and those who were there when Wickham entered appeared not to notice him . |
| 3 | It could be and sometimes was , but i er the standard takes a lot of keeping up and er Much of the influence comes from newspaper and superior people implanting it on the population by reiterating these standards which often are wishful and they would like it to be so , but er They were hard days , they were hungry days . |
| 4 | I put it on , I 've suggested people put it on the Christmas list , I think it would be a good Christmas present |
| 5 | I never used it in the like people put it in the till . |
| 6 | ‘ We bring what we believe is the best art , and let people see it in the light of their own country and in the light of their own culture ’ , he says . |
| 7 | I call on such people to give it to the police in confidence . |
| 8 | ‘ I call on such people to give it to the police in confidence . |
| 9 | Takes a coupla minutes and the people getting it at the other end do n't notice anything wrong . |
| 10 | I know that they 've stopped people doing it in the past because they would n't , did n't want . |
| 11 | He had heard Yorkshire people substitute it for the word ‘ self ’ , as in : ‘ I 've been there me sen ! ’ |
| 12 | And these opportunities were very considerable ; later generations might see the eighteenth-century empire as a monument to the constrictions of mercantilism , but at the time people saw it as the largest area of unrestricted trade in the world and it offered excellent prospects for men like the sugar and tobacco merchants of Glasgow . |
| 13 | Young couples took their children to it as soon as their legs were long enough ; old people accepted it as the first of their last climbs and many beery pledges were made to the mountain in the Deeside pubs . |
| 14 | A thing of great beauty , it was not unusual to hear sharp intakes of breath as people beheld it for the first time . |
| 15 | I bet they do n't dispense much of that now because most people buy it over the counter do n't they ? |
| 16 | If the ‘ ultimate aim ’ is specified as the securing of predictive control over the future run of experience , then either this can be justified as providing a means to achieving further practical ends , or , if it stands in no need of justification , it may be possible to explain why people have it without the explanation undermining its appeal . |