Example sentences of "people [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A small crowd had gathered in the piazza as the morning advanced and people came out to buy bread or eat a hurried breakfast in the bar before catching the bus . |
| 2 | Hundreds of people turned out to lobby councillors — some even brought their friends . |
| 3 | It was through these benefit or friendly societies that working people began collectively to provide insurance against the loss of income through unemployment , and to ensure that each should have a respectable funeral . |
| 4 | It crashed in a fireball early on Sunday evening , as many people settled down to watch television . |
| 5 | These country people did not love bishops , the paraphernalia of church hierarchy . |
| 6 | The great mass of the people did not want revolution , or else they would have elected a Labour Government . |
| 7 | That most German people did not want war with England was true by almost every account of neutral witnesses . |
| 8 | And in the 1950s people did not buy things they could not afford — credit and debt were shameful things to be avoided . |
| 9 | He said they were reacting to public pressure , and that the majority of people did not support Sunday opening . |
| 10 | People did not notice youngness when they saw you constantly , the same as the alteration into age went largely unobserved . |
| 11 | These hapless people did not take flight in response to the spread of ‘ rumours of independence ’ . |
| 12 | I mean , people did n't pay money just out of , you know , loyalty , completely . |
| 13 | In January nineteen forty , a scientist named Charles Barrell , er was examining that portrait , not as an art historian , but scientifically , and of course there 's always the question with portraits of what might be under it , because er canvas was very very expensive and people did n't waste materials then as they do now , because they were in relatively short supply , good painting canvas . |
| 14 | People did n't have money for taxis so we took limousines . |
| 15 | See people did n't have cars , and if it was now , they could only help me by bringing a horse to meet me or erm or a tractor if they half way . |
| 16 | In those areas , the people did n't have votes . |
| 17 | Most people did n't try wit or persuasion on her , drunk or sober . |
| 18 | In Brindisi , with 4,000 people crowded aboard moored boats and 3,000 on the dockside , the local authorities were overwhelmed by the scale of the migration . |
| 19 | But that was before television , people had n't seen animals . |
| 20 | No , I 've arranged to rent Mr Boldwood 's farm , and I could have been your farm manager as well , if — well — if people had n't said things about us . ’ |
| 21 | Floy remembered what Nuadu Airgetlam had said about the Robemaker taking sacrifice from the ordinary Irish people and putting the sons to work in the Dark Workshops and guessed that the people had simply lost heart . |
| 22 | There were sometimes they , they came , if they 'd been in action and er , the people had actually found blood and parts of the uniforms in the air gunner 's compartment at the back , and the , the fella , the navigator u and bomb aimer used to be in the nose , they had n't got much of a chance if they came down in there because they were right cut off from the rest of the aircraft so , but it was virtually a suicide position in the nose of the Bostons . |
| 23 | Other young people left voluntarily to seek work and earn money , viewed as more important than education . |
| 24 | Some people stood up to make speeches and there were rallies and demonstrations calling for greater freedoms and human rights over the winter months . |