Example sentences of "be [verb] other people " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both are using other people as pawns in a game in which they need to win at all costs . |
| 2 | She had been so deeply involved with her own emotions that she had lost the imaginative sense that is necessary if you are to see other people as independent entities , locked in their private worlds . |
| 3 | Yeah if you 're taking it you just want a laugh and you know you 're not affecting anyone else but if you 're dealing you 're pressing other people to buy it . |
| 4 | I volunteered then to do one of the yards because you know , you 're asking other people to do it , it was gon na be a nightmare . |
| 5 | committed to that , you 've got ta be committed because otherwise you 're letting other people down . |
| 6 | And you 're taking other people in front of him . |
| 7 | You do , you try doing what you 're telling other people . |
| 8 | Moreover , although what they are testing other people for are their own conventions , their own work does not necessarily provide evidence of them in practice . |
| 9 | That would only be necessary if the troops had been requisitioning other people 's equipment . |
| 10 | That would only have been necessary had the troops been requisitioning other people 's equipment , rather than turning out with their own ambulances . |
| 11 | ‘ She would n't be meeting other people and she would n't have her own money so she could n't go . |
| 12 | This work gives me a reason to live , I know I 'm doing other people good and that 's the same for other workers in this field . |
| 13 | Well I do n't think it 's , I do n't think it 's terribly good actually to be able to be telling other people who has already been here , erm |
| 14 | People are interpreting other people 's language — and expecting other people to interpret their own — in this way all the time , apparently with a surprising degree of accuracy . |
| 15 | People are interpreting other people 's language — and expecting other people to interpret their own — in this way all the time , apparently with a surprising degree of accuracy . |
| 16 | If you put young people to work digging ditches , the argument ran , you were keeping other people out of employment ; and what young people needed was not bogus work but real jobs . |
| 17 | A WOMAN who fell victim to a cruel conman estimated to have swindled more than £1m is warning other people not to be taken in . |
| 18 | Erm yet at the same time , obvi at the same time , it 's affecting other people in the actual flats , so what is the solution ? |
| 19 | He 's making other people do as he did . |
| 20 | We appear to be selfish , cynical creatures ; our greatest ambition in relation to rules of behaviour is to get other people to obey them so that our own cheating is even more productive . |
| 21 | But the main purpose is to deter other people which is tantamount to an abuse of human rights . |
| 22 | But he was a a reformed now he was helping other people ge get away from pinching cars like in a they have like |
| 23 | He was serving other people all the while and making out we were talking about the Superbowl . |