Example sentences of "people [was/were] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was not a pioneer of part time senior registrar training in Wessex : several people were already in post . |
| 2 | There were also other things such as places where people were away from home — the Plain Clothes could have as many as twenty or thirty places where people were away from home , and he was expected to pay attention and he would have to go round and visit them all . |
| 3 | There were also other things such as places where people were away from home — the Plain Clothes could have as many as twenty or thirty places where people were away from home , and he was expected to pay attention and he would have to go round and visit them all . |
| 4 | In Ipswich 12 people were still at home in the action sample , three of them with considerable support from the project . |
| 5 | Among the French peasants of Village in the Vaucluse , Laurence Wylie still found in the 1950s that nearly all the older people were still at work . |
| 6 | Condemnation from international human rights groups had forced the Prosecutor-General 's department to reveal that Munteanu was accused of leading demonstrators in attacks on the police headquarters , and that 185 people were still in detention . |
| 7 | Yet there has never been a time when the British people were more in need of a vigilant and free Press . |