Example sentences of "people [vb past] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Zuwaya disliked policemen as a category , and took pride in not being related to any , that was in part because in the past ordinary people got their main experience of corruption and venality in the first instance from the police , and that reputation stuck ; and partly also because they recognized that policemen had divided loyalties and could not be trusted to be loyal exclusively to their kinsmen . |
| 2 | Her father 's belief that people made their own luck was true , Cora-Beth thought , when by lunchtime the following day Harry had finished his business with the architect and her ruse to have him to herself for a few hours paid off . |
| 3 | Some time ago I commented in an article that too many people sought their main interests outside their work . |
| 4 | ‘ I experienced a space in which people contributed their unique perspectives , suggestions and inspirations . |
| 5 | At the very beginning of the play Shakespeare demonstrated how easily the people changed their personal opinions . |
| 6 | People smothered their unwashed bodies and clothes with perfume and carried little bouquets of aromatic herbs ( tussie mussies ) with them to prevent infectious illness and to mask the stench of the filthy streets . |
| 7 | Many people pursued their materialistic goals too far and found themselves short- changed . |
| 8 | It is also certain that whilst the leaders of a community may have , possibly for political expediency , formally converted to Christianity , most people retained their pagan beliefs and practices . |
| 9 | What is striking about these two books is the sense they convey — little less unusual now than when they were written — of a strong and independent black community , in which people found their own way rather than having it mapped out for them by white expectations . |
| 10 | Most people negotiated their own wage . |
| 11 | At the same time working people developed their own form of voluntary associations — the friendly societies — that enabled the better-off sections of the working class , at least , to receive cash benefits when the wage earner was ill , with the illness certified and treated by a doctor paid by the society . |
| 12 | That is how the people began their great song of triumph after the crossing of the sea . |
| 13 | Perhaps , thought Fenella , the Robemaker had drawn a veil of colour and light over his spells , rather as people covered their favourite gowns or pieces of furniture with dust sheets . |
| 14 | During the nineteenth century , as more people survived their last child leaving home , it became a particularly important form of support , with perhaps a quarter of working-class older people in some towns taking in boarders : a pattern which persisted until young people began to marry much earlier in the 1950s , setting up on their own instead — and leaving more of the old on their own . |
| 15 | People brought their musical instruments and had impromptu — or sometimes organized — concerts and sing-songs there . |
| 16 | During the last war , for example , when people grew their own fruit and vegetables , when meat was rationed and anything sweet was in short supply , the nation was much healthier . |
| 17 | In those days , it was a community and most people knew their near neighbours well . |
| 18 | In villages , where people did their own cooking , baking and brewing , food handling was restricted to milling , malting and butchering , leaving clothing and footwear the commonest occupations — indeed , tailoring was one of the largest single crafts anywhere . |
| 19 | God had answered that prayer , and taught her that the people had their own ministry to offer in return from the time she first set foot on African soil . |
| 20 | In prosperous districts too — most strikingly in central Suffolk — the labouring element was minimal , few assessments falling below £2 , and many people had their own smallholdings which , even if not always big enough to afford a really adequate livelihood , at least restricted working for wages to a subsidiary role . |
| 21 | These people had their own form of writing that encompassed serifs and descending and connecting lines that are common to the Sinai . |
| 22 | It had changed little since then , a street where people minded their own business , principally that of supplying their own kind with meals remarkable for value and cheapness . |
| 23 | Now , just a shabby backwater in Belsize Park , but a nice , quiet area where a woman alone might walk down to the corner shop at midnight in safety and people minded their own business . |
| 24 | In the Punjab in India , too , the birth rate went up after spermicides were introduced because people abandoned their traditional forms of birth control and then failed to use the unpleasant pessaries . |