Example sentences of "people were [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1985 some 60 per cent of older people were living in poverty or on the margins of poverty . |
| 2 | The work was heart-breaking because of the shortage of homes and it showed that many old people were living in distress . |
| 3 | Here was a long-established bastion of English liberty , older than the vote , yet older people were banished from participation . |
| 4 | The scalding flood swamped hundreds of homes and many people were plucked to safety by helicopter . |
| 5 | In Sind 12 people were killed during gun battles involving factions of the Mohajir Qaumi Movement ( MQM ) and the Pakistan People 's Party ( PPP ) in late June and early July . |
| 6 | Last year , three hundred and forty six people were killed at work , and thousands injured . |
| 7 | Over 50 people were killed in unrest across the country in the period Aug. 2-4 , although police said that it was not clear whether all the deaths were related to the strike . |
| 8 | At the same time , serious unrest erupted in the territories ; three people were killed in rioting in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Oct. 8 . |
| 9 | It was estimated that seven people were killed in rioting between Oct. 10 and Nov. 10 . |
| 10 | At least 10 people were killed in rioting by Shia Moslems in Katsina state on Jan. 8 . |
| 11 | On the same day 15 other people were killed in violence elsewhere in the state . |
| 12 | In the 1950s people were killed in prison . |
| 13 | FIVE people were treated for shock after loyalist bombers struck at a Belfast house . |
| 14 | Another 237 people were treated for radiation sickness , some of whom needed bone-marrow transplants to restore their white blood-cell count . |
| 15 | Nine people were treated in hospital and one ten-year-old child was detained overnight . |
| 16 | THREE people were treated in hospital today after passengers and crew had to swiftly leave an aircraft by emergency chutes when smoke appeared in the cockpit . |
| 17 | Five people were treated in hospital for cuts and whiplash but all were later released . |
| 18 | More than 50 Department of Social Security officers went with the police to minicab headquarters across north and east London and several people were questioned about benefit fraud . |
| 19 | Five people were airlifted to hospital after they had feared they were going to die . |
| 20 | Last year three and a half thousand people were prosecuted for drink driving in the Thames Valley area . |
| 21 | Is he aware that one business man did as he suggested and , as a result of his coming forward , three people were convicted of racketeering ? |
| 22 | The leading modern case is Stone and Dobinson ( 1977 ) , where two people were convicted of manslaughter for allowing a sick relative , whom they had permitted to live in their house , to die without medical attention . |
| 23 | Five people were sentenced to death for drug trafficking in Hunan province on June 24 ; two days later , in Yunnan province , 21 traffickers were executed . |
| 24 | Three more people were sentenced to death by a military court at Blida , 50 km south-west of Algiers , on May 6 in connection with an attempt in mid-February to seize arms from a naval dry dock in Algiers . |
| 25 | Five people were sentenced to death , six to life imprisonment , 44 to 20 years ' imprisonment and four to 15 years ' imprisonment ; five of the defendants were acquitted . |
| 26 | At the sound of the air-raid siren , a woman carrying a child tripped at the entrance to the Underground , and a panic-stricken crowd pushed in behind her ; 173 people were trampled to death . |
| 27 | Their release came 10 days after over 100 civilians had died in a crowded stadium in the capital , Mogadishu , when hecklers interrupted an address by Barre and called for his resignation ; his presidential guard reportedly fired shots into the air , then fired into the crowd , and a number of people were trampled to death during the subsequent melee . |
| 28 | Also there were things called pangas which were knives erm and the we saw quite a few tribal incidents and people were injured from knife attacks . |
| 29 | A number of people were readmitted to Hospital ( mostly long term readmissions ) . |
| 30 | People were weeping with laughter . |