Example sentences of "i [verb] [adj] people [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the third call Morris said to Bob , ‘ I asked some people to step round . ’ |
| 2 | I mean many people wrote disparagingly about your attempt , your nerve in taking on a gem of the New York stage and turning it into a British directed movie . |
| 3 | erm I agree , and I actually think these figures are relatively crude , but I mean , there is , clearly there are correlations between low income , which most I mean unemployed people have of course got , and ill health . |
| 4 | never , I mean some people go around just like twins do n't they ? |
| 5 | as far as part time work goes and supply work , because erm that work is sort of quite spasmodic I suppose it can be I mean some people do a regular amount some do bits here and there . |
| 6 | but erm you know I mean some people do actually get total , totally pissed off with the university and the course and everything and , and decide to chuck it in , you know , er in which case |
| 7 | Yeah that 's right , I mean some people do n't |
| 8 | I mean some people adopt the approach of trying to d do it all in about two hours just before the deadline so they do n't have time to feel self critical erm I think perhaps if you can , you know , rather than , rather than trying to do it all at once I mean the business of , of going through successive drafts of things and gradually getting them better and better , I mean the first drafts of things that I write are , are usually just scribbles on the back of a piece of paper that 's , with something else on the front |
| 9 | Erm I mean some people say , quite wrongly , that it 's something that does n't take any part in the reaction but speeds it up , but how can it do that . |
| 10 | I mean some people say it diffidence some people say it 's considerate so you have to then try and go a bit further beyond the actual differences to find out what the reasons behind them are . |
| 11 | I mean some people have a knack . |
| 12 | Oh no , I know that , I know that I mean some people find some things easy , some people find some things hard , do n't they ? |
| 13 | I mean these people have had a pay freeze since November nineteen ninety and these grievances were as a result of a new pay structure last year that actually worsened the terms and conditions since nineteen ninety , but till then we 've been making steady progress in getting better improvements and we 've gone backwards . |
| 14 | I mean most people go out to work to earn money . |
| 15 | Yeah well I mean most people do , I mean |
| 16 | now , you know , they 've been watching them , they know they 're a blind couple , I mean blind people feel that vulnerable that you 're asking them to go |
| 17 | Throughout that period I 've canvassed for the Labour Party , I 've campaigned for the Labour Party , I 've argued for the Labour Party and one of the items that made me join the Labour Party and one of the items I got other people to join the Labour Party was that Labour was a mass Party , because it consisted of hundreds of thousands of individual members and it consisted of millions of trade unionists . |
| 18 | got some , I got some people coming round tonight so I was gon na do it anyway . |
| 19 | I expect some people watching might think that wo wo football is a boy 's game , rather than a girl 's game , but of course that is n't the tradition is it ? |
| 20 | Oh right erm but er well you can , you can get away without , without buying stuff erm I mean as I , as I say some people do end up sharing erm some people do end up , not that there 's very much library stock very often but , you know , some people do |
| 21 | " You look so pretty , I want other people to see you . |
| 22 | I want these people to live , not die . |
| 23 | We do not know whether those who have received an agricultural education run more profitable agricultural businesses but I imagine most people assume they do . |
| 24 | This relative freedom from negative reaction is what I imagine most people mean when they say they are happy in their work . |
| 25 | ‘ I imagine most people do . ’ |
| 26 | I imagine most people buy an electronic machine because of the flexibility of its patterning system . |
| 27 | ‘ Then I hope these people do n't know either although they seem to know a lot . |
| 28 | I hear young people ask why they can not find homes . |
| 29 | I know other people do n't feel like this . |
| 30 | I 'm not going to dwell too deeply on this as I personally ( and I know many people feel the same way ) ca n't find one trace of child molestation or anything else distasteful within those grooves . |