Example sentences of "people [vb base] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Physically and emotionally exhausted groups of people sit round the bed of the ill person feeling quite unable to leave even though they may have children at home or jobs to go to or a multitude of other functions . |
| 2 | Approximately 150 people make up the population of Tibthorpe ; their homes with beautiful views over the surrounding countryside . |
| 3 | The humble people bring up the hero as their own child , eventually the hero realizes through a dream , through a prophecy , a visitation or something that he is not the child of his humble parents , but the find out who his real parents were , and then returns and arduous struggles and eventually gains his rightful place . |
| 4 | The sufferer has to want to seek help and will not want to do so if other people cover up the consequences of addictive disease . |
| 5 | As he fell , John Taylor , 48 , banged his head with such force that the noise was heard by people further along the street . |
| 6 | The closer we come to the game the more we focus as a group , and the more people drop off the equation . |
| 7 | And why is it whenever you choose to roll out the seventy foot or more of polythene , which has humped up your overdraft considerably , a perfect tranquil morning is spoilt by a freak hurricane , sheet with a dozen or more pairs of hands held fast disappears over Stickford way and at that moment , more people drive up the Bank than would normally pass in a week . |
| 8 | In summer , the People drive off the highway up the track leading to the Silberner Hirsch , with its fine view of the mountains to the north . |
| 9 | At Richmond a lot of people get off the train and I take refuge in a Smoking compartment where the heat is not on . |
| 10 | lot 's of people dig up the pavement do n't they ? |
| 11 | Well it will be for a for a month at least until people find out the number |
| 12 | Please do not think that only suicidal people ring up the Samaritans . |
| 13 | It 's , it 's living in harmony I suppose will be the word you know the , the environment sort of moves in to the power station and does n't get attacked , everywhere else gets attacked you know , people scrub up the weeds in the garden and things like that , here they 're allowed to grow , the butterflies come in , insects , great you know just , just love it . |
| 14 | So when people gather round the manger with wonder and puzzlement , I 'm over in the corner looking at the cows . |
| 15 | Oh there 's people go down the Chinese with letters and the boy 'll give it to me erm can I have so and so , so and so , so and so , so and so , I 'll pay you tomorrow when get paid . |
| 16 | For the most part people move around the planet completely ignorant of the way they move . |
| 17 | Most of the 300,000 people live off the land and no one has gone hungry . |
| 18 | She watched groups of people come round the winners , groups of friends going into the two pubs on the harbour street , people hailing each other , saving places of vantage on the wall for their friends . |
| 19 | Of course , i er sometimes people phone up the Fire Brigade and the Fire Brigade get to the fire |