Example sentences of "people [Wh pn] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Old Cumberland Beggar is more obviously a sermon addressed to the political economist , who believes that only ‘ people who show a profit ’ are important , and that people who are poor or old or ill should be shut away because they are ‘ useless to society ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ I think there have been a lot of people who had a problem in Hollywood because they were too good-looking or too charming . |
| 3 | It was It seems a kind of I mean it seems to have gone on quite a bit that people who had a Co book would allow other people to draw off of that , would go to the shops and buy whatever they needed of the Co book . |
| 4 | ‘ We know of two people who had a row recently , do n't we ? ’ |
| 5 | are people who had a choice about where they would live . |
| 6 | We shall need in time to check which belong to people who had a right to handle the diary ; Sir Paul , yourself , members of the household . |
| 7 | He liked people who had a family , which was why he enjoyed being with Gordon Jackson so much . |
| 8 | I mean , you get people who blow a couple of bars on a mouth organ and then hold out their hands . |
| 9 | we have people who know a lot about the subject , and others who are bringing in their own items for us to assess |
| 10 | ‘ It is not acceptable to have people who require a home confined to long-stay institutions when they could be in more domestic settings . |
| 11 | Thus most long-term care for people who require a lot of daily support would be the responsibility of the local authority rather than , as formerly , of the NHS . |
| 12 | Anyway I gather from my office cleaner that tickets from Oxford are now on sale to their season ticket holders and members , and will be on sale soon to public people who get a voucher from this saturday 's game . |
| 13 | The man who was killed was one of three people who attacked a crew from the international television news agency , Visnews , 50 yards from the Marines ' post at the airport entrance . |
| 14 | Police are searching for people who attacked a pony , leaving it with a gaping wound six inches long in its leg . |
| 15 | Opinion was mobilised around the paradoxical notion that it was Black people who represented a threat to the rule of law in Britain . |
| 16 | Consider the case of two people who refer a dispute to an arbitrator . |
| 17 | Erm , Local Government and Local Council work is often seen as being very drab and indeed we all know that it 's becoming probably less exciting nowadays with the constraints that there are and what Councils still require er in abundance are characters , people who bring a bit of excitement to Council affairs w i at whatever level and I think that one thing that has is character , sadly missing in so many younger politicians I must say . |
| 18 | The only people who make a choice today are the ones with self-inflicted wounds , and they get shot for it . |
| 19 | It is people who make a city for me . |
| 20 | The paper also reports on the role of the police , talks to people who make a living out of trivia question machines and has an exclusive interview with Lenny Henry , in which he reveals his top jokes . |
| 21 | Apart from perhaps being of interest to people who make a lot of overseas telephone calls , and need to know what time it is in New York when its ' 11am in London , for example , this program would seem to be very limited in its usefulness . |
| 22 | Apart from perhaps being of interest to people who make a lot of overseas telephone calls , and need to know what time it is in New York when its ' 11am in London , for example , this program would seem to be very limited in its usefulness . |
| 23 | PEOPLE who eat a clove or more of garlic a day are less likely to suffer a heart attack , high blood pressure or thrombosis , doctors said yesterday , writes Liz Hunt . |
| 24 | ‘ There has been a lot of evidence that people who eat a lot of fish have less instances of cancer . |
| 25 | It has long been known that people who eat a high-vegetable diet have lower rates of stomach cancer , and this is particularly striking in regions of Italy and China which have a very high garlic intake . |
| 26 | I wonder if those idiots realise just how much they frighten you and me … people who support a system because , in the end , the answers have to come through the system . |
| 27 | There are now so few to be fished for in most rivers that more and more people who spent a lot of money in Scotland , as I have over the years , are going to Russia , Iceland , Alaska , Canada and Norway . |
| 28 | Looking back I am increasingly grateful to the many people who took a share in this fortunate happening , though now I realise that I might have expressed my gratitude to them more often and more appreciatively . |
| 29 | The first meeting place was a small room in Fetter Lane in 1840 which became known to some interested people who took a house in Red Lion Square where some destitute deaf men and women were lodged and taught trades . |
| 30 | These two institutions have made themselves universally known as the automatic check-in points for people who like a bit of a show — canteens for gossip column readers in search of local colour . |