Example sentences of "people [be] [verb] [adv] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Um and I think there 's some acknowledgement in these quotes I 've got under end results , classifications and syndromes which um I suppose there 's some acknowledgement that maybe these things were adaptive at the time but maybe once people are grown up they 're not quite so adaptive . |
| 2 | As Appendix I shows ( Table 48a ) , people were asked where they would choose to borrow money . |
| 3 | But the real dynamite in Packard 's book was his Status Table of jobs , compiled in a University of Chicago study , in which people were asked how they rated the social standing of one profession compared with another . |
| 4 | erm Sorry , I think we 'll just stick with Faulkner for a moment , because I think that leads us on to the constant tragedies of battle casualties , which were obviously very much brought in into Oxford whenever people were wounded outside they were often brought in to Oxford to be cared for , there was a hospital out of Yarnton too , but a great many were cared for all over Oxford , and the greatest of course were buried at Christchurch . |
| 5 | And perhaps lots of people were wondering why they were n't having this good time . |