Example sentences of "people [verb] about the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All over the rest of the Soviet Union , the Chernobyl explosion was a powerful force for making people think about the environment . |
| 2 | He needs not to forget that there are demonic forces in the universe whatever people say about the existence of the devil . |
| 3 | The things people say about the book business . |
| 4 | ‘ And I do n't care what people say about the age difference . |
| 5 | ranging from when I went to Leeds to that seminar and there were people excited about the Festival and you know , two weeks before the Festival speaking to Jane in London , said oh we 've had a lot of you know and I said well I 'll get back to you in September and tell you |
| 6 | You may have heard people speak about the loss of brain cells as we get older but , as Tony Buzan , expert in the working of the human mind , writes in his book Make the Most of Your Mind : |
| 7 | There are times when I think that other people know little about it , but politicians are the last people to pontificate about the curriculum , and I hope that teachers and inspectors are concerned about it . |
| 8 | Part of the Government 's failure can be seen every week in our constituency surgeries , at which small business people complain about the way in which their firms failed . |
| 9 | Leopold related the news , and the Archbishop 's excuse for not having allowed father and son to travel the previous year : ‘ he said that he could not tolerate people going about the world begging ’ ( 31 August 1778 ) . |
| 10 | Few people know about the work of Y Care International , the charity that Yasmin le Bon supports so enthusiastically . |
| 11 | Our activities since we began include preparing information packs for advice centres and welfare rights workers , leafleting the DHSS offices so people know about the legislation , networking with other groups in Belfast , and other parts of Ireland , North and South and with groups in Britain , lobbying and generally trying to make this legislation unworkable . |
| 12 | Would people know about the opening ? |
| 13 | Most people know about the Ozone layer in the earth 's stratosphere . |
| 14 | If other people know about the Star Zoo , there will be killing . |
| 15 | I suspect that those of us who continue our work as Members of Parliament after the next general election will find our surgeries just as busy with people complaining about the council tax and its anomalies as we have during the past year as a result of the poll tax . |
| 16 | Up to one in seven people complaining about the valuation of their home for the council tax think their property is undervalued , early evidence shows . |
| 17 | If people hear about the boy , he thought , perhaps they will want me to pay for their lost chickens and their disappearing sheep . |
| 18 | We 've been approached by people asking about the Kangeroo scarers . |
| 19 | When your people talk about the company ( the organization ) , whom are they talking about ? |
| 20 | People talk about the role of chairman or chief executive as though these are clear definitive roles . |
| 21 | Clients are often confused about treatments , as in the vignette quoted left , where the image of the laboratory test-tube , rather than a Petri dish , is still common currency and people talk about the GIFT operation ( gamete-intra-fallopian transfer ) as if indeed they are about to receive a ‘ gift ’ . |
| 22 | You know when people talk about the war we feel dreadful ! |
| 23 | When your people talk about the organization they should be talking about you . |
| 24 | People talk about the news and the government more critically than they did before . |
| 25 | People milled about the room , shaking hands , saying things like : ‘ Hello , I 'm Jane , and I have a right to be alive . ’ |
| 26 | From people worried about the country being marginally swamped by immigrants , no doubt . |
| 27 | The Anglian Water Authority , which said it had been constrained from discussing the problems because it might affect the price of shares during privatisation , refused last night to attend a meeting of local people worried about the problem . |
| 28 | In England , Emily Davison died under the King 's horse , Anmer , at Tottenham Corner during the Derby , but more people worried about the injury to the horse . |
| 29 | Although public fears over BSE have largely died down , there are still people worried about the health risks of infected cattle being burnt at places like this animal crematorium . |
| 30 | You may have actually heard people raving about the miracle weight losses they have achieved and attributed to these magical foods . |