Example sentences of "it [verb] to [adj] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | And did did you see th w was it widespread , did you see it happening to other people ? |
| 2 | When it came to other people , particularly men , she preferred to be in control . |
| 3 | It happened to these people |
| 4 | The principle ‘ obey your parents … for this is right ’ is drawn from creation ; it applies to all people , Christian or not . |
| 5 | Yeah perhaps , I , I know that it applies to some people . |
| 6 | I 've seen it happen to new people coming in as well . |
| 7 | When they do not work effectively , the unmitigated anger may well seep out in constant irritation over relatively trivial things or , as it seems to other people , may suddenly and unexpectedly break out with a degree of force inappropriate to the circumstances . |
| 8 | erm you know kind of er call that a first draft and then sort , you know , sort of try and sort of go through the books again and stick a few references in to back up the points you 've made so you can see it relates to other people 's evidence erm trying to go through it again and knock out the well you know what I mean kind of statements and , and , you know , you can gradually sort of make the er grad you know sort of but again it 's , it 's , it 's one of these processes that I find , you know , you need to go through again and again and again to sort of get it er get it together erm so erm |
| 9 | His initial concern was with the transition from work to retirement and he has subsequently been involved in work on health education , notably the role of community care as it relates to older people . |
| 10 | His own task was to make sure , no matter how it appeared to other people , that he constantly checked across from his private life of personal belief — and back again — to the professional , public and accountable life of a head . |
| 11 | It implies to young people that crack and cocaine are no more dangerous than a glass of wine , beer or spirits . |
| 12 | ‘ And no matter what hurt it gives to other people , I presume . ’ |
| 13 | Mhm well I suppose it does to some people . |
| 14 | Some learning theories ( differential association was an example ) moved away from the idea of criminals being identifiably different kinds of people : their criminal behaviour was seen as being acquired in much the same way as any other behaviour was acquired ; it did not require any special , predisposing characteristics for it to happen to particular people . |