Example sentences of "of [verb] other people ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , both tactics are ways of using other people 's ideas as a stimulus for producing ideas yourself . |
| 2 | I mean it 's all right to say if you 're nice to them they 'll be nice to you erm it should come the other way round , that they should sort of respect other people 's property . |
| 3 | THE Government has a clever knack of stealing other people 's clothes , never more so than in its espousal of ‘ active citizenship ’ as a desirable virtue . |
| 4 | For the Right-Ons , many of whom had committed the cardinal mistake of taking other people 's newspapers too seriously , it was inconceivable that this diet of trash should be allowed to succeed . |
| 5 | We do not have ’ joyriding ’ in Northern Ireland ; rather death , destruction and tragedy are the result of young folk indulging in the habit of taking other people 's vehicles and running around in them for all sorts of purposes . |
| 6 | Religious bigots have often employed the cunning device of converting other people 's heroes into villains , to suit their own purposes . |
| 7 | As a means of controlling other people 's behaviour , it meets the essential criterion of power , but is largely unanalysed . |
| 8 | Hence , the leaden delivery of some Euro-platitudes , by a woman who really ought to be able to do a better job of reading other people 's speeches after 40 years of doing little else , carries more political import than anything else that has been said about Europe since the election . |
| 9 | We know from years of experience that we are not capable of reading other people 's problems as well as they are . |
| 10 | ‘ Then I thought we 'd set up the nice Mr Sorley and his mobile Fax van and photograph him in the act of reading other people 's mail . ’ |
| 11 | George known as the Railway King was very keen to get er across into to Lincoln and certainly in various other parts of East Anglia , to sort of spike other people 's guns and to erm er to obtain the traffic for his own er benefit , and for his shareholder 's benefit perhaps . |
| 12 | One belonged to a family with a long history of ill-health ; another was a slattern with a fondness for the bottle ; yet another had a family who had a habit of making other people 's homes their own . |
| 13 | Billy Bragg has the unusual gift of making other people 's songs his own by the simple expedient of singing them . |
| 14 | The sheer pleasure of discovering other people 's domestic arrangement stirred in her . |