Example sentences of "the people [verb] that " in BNC.

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1 It was quite clear to me that 260,000 people would be reduced very substantially and that for every person who was made redundant in British Steel , seven people were affected — another three in the family , plus the people serving that family in the shops and in other ways .
2 Will he now change his mind or shall we have to wait for the people to do that for him ?
3 So do n't encourage the people to do that but that is true if it 's so valued you would have thought there would have been an outcry , there has n't been .
4 It maintained the opening note of disappointment throughout a confusing account of the Ceausescus ' rise to power and their fatal misjudgment which led to the people entering that famously well-wardrobed bedroom .
5 I might add that Filmer 's notion of dominion as originally granted to Adam included both ownership of property and authority over men and here Filmer was trading on erm erm the feudal tradition of erm property erm erm erm dominion erm entails that if you have property rights in a certain tract of territory you also have political authority over the people inhabiting that or that territory you know , think of a straightforward standard lord of the manor and his service you know , he has property rights in the territory , he also has authority over erm the individuals who live off that territory .
6 And whether the erm the kind of ideology or the ideas are christian or Marxist erm you 've got to wait till the overwhelming mass of the people see that truth before er it can be effective .
7 And he said not at all , not at all and I said well I do want the people to know that , you know we , although we tribute to of the lost lives in the two World Wars , we are now striving for peace and so I wound a few white poppies .
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