Example sentences of "people [v-ing] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Building the steps into the patio create a stairwell , so provision has to be made to prevent people stepping over the side and into the stairwell accidentally . |
| 2 | Every inch looks well used , whether by a girl foraging grass for oxen or by people resting at the side of the road . |
| 3 | Ginny waited for a bus and watched people darting along the pavements and in and out of shops . |
| 4 | In the middle of the crowd — people arriving , people leaving , lost children , tannoy announcements , people queueing at the cashiers ' grilles , checking the airport shops , lugging their cases into the restaurants … in the middle of all that , Culley looked for someone special . |
| 5 | His days are spent with fellow homeless people hanging around the streets of Oxford . |
| 6 | There were still huge crowds of people hanging around the paddock , and Kate had quite a time , burdened as she was with the luggage , to push her way through . |
| 7 | That is what insurance companies does anyway , it discriminates against different types of people depending on the risk assessed . |
| 8 | Apart from Donna there were only two other people eating in the train 's dining car . |
| 9 | The sound of an approaching band and people gathering outside the Butcher 's Arms heralds the highlight of the feast , the united sing . |
| 10 | In the end there has to be a limit , there has to be a level beyond which you can not go without people cracking under the strain , without people saying I 'm now doing the job that was done by two people , two and half people a few years ago . |
| 11 | So long as it maintains the idea that believers talking to unbelievers are like people explaining to the blind what it is like to see , reason may be tolerated . |
| 12 | The result : a 38 per cent increase in people subsisting below the poverty line — from 47 million in 1980 to 65 million in 1985 . |
| 13 | They think the people walking on the street out there are dreaming of the moment when they can become capitalist serfs again . |
| 14 | And people walking on the pavement all it totally and I thought what a cheek . |
| 15 | Tug had a sharp , split-second picture of people walking on the track . |
| 16 | But there again , it 's people walking through the flats , who do n't live on the flats , that get mugged . |
| 17 | The trust aims to challenge the legality of the exclusion order , made under the 1986 Public Order Act , deeming two or more people walking towards the stones to be a criminal procession . |
| 18 | She pulled free of him , stopping dead in the middle of the path , causing considerable confusion to people walking towards the castle . |
| 19 | The people walking across the Parade down there are in a world of their own ; no great glass eyes are turned inquiringly up towards me . |
| 20 | People walking along the promenade were beginning to stop and lean on the iron bar at the top end of the beach to look at the Africans . |
| 21 | Making a recording of , for example , people walking along the street enables the researcher to study the unwritten rules which apply when people are trying to pass each other on a narrow pavement . |
| 22 | You do n't suddenly go blind for the duration of a ‘ phone call and are , therefore , prey to all sorts of visual distractions — people walking past the window , someone coming in to see you and so on . |
| 23 | This is illustrated by the people walking past the tramp , showing him no humanity at all even though he was obviously in dire need of help . |
| 24 | In one of these turrets was a camera oscura , a dark room with a crystal prism set in it , which enabled the old Contessa to see the people walking in the square below . |
| 25 | Nobody intervened , although there were many people walking in the street , and when the two men had finished what they had obviously planned to do , they left as unhurriedly as they had come . |
| 26 | At the door of the Registrar 's office was a long line of people ending at the desk where the Officer 's clerk sat drinking tea and lording it over the supplicants . |
| 27 | It seems , too , that certain specific proposals in Caring for People relating to the care of mentally disordered people are something of an afterthought ; certainly they read that way . |
| 28 | ‘ We were all joyous at the scenes of people climbing on the Wall but the problem is , how do you make money on this ? ’ said Charles Clough , chief investment strategist at Merrill Lynch . |
| 29 | I 'm still not keen on that side of it — it 's nice to be popular , it 's nice to be loved , but it 's not so nice to be chased round and to be on the front page of the paper every day of your life , with people climbing over the wall all day long . |
| 30 | The two front seat backs tilt forward and make life easier for people climbing into the rear . |