Example sentences of "of [verb] other people " 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 | So he stood for ten minutes at the window watching soldiers tossing bundles of equipment into the gurg-ling FV 432s parked around the parade ground and feeling the deep contentment of seeing other people working very hard very early in the day . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | So we had this idea of getting other people to buy it with us . ’ |
| 5 | We are not in the business of expecting other people who can ill afford it to pick up the cost of a single person 's discount for the rich . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Since the politician is blamed for what is not his fault , he could n't survive unless he devised methods of blaming other people for what is his fault . |
| 8 | Unhelpful behaviours are those which hinder you from achieving your objective and/or which run the risk of giving other people a bad impression of you . |
| 9 | Shedding tears is a way of letting other people know that you are in need of comfort . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Do n't make the fatal mistake of assuming other people think as logically as you do , or even hear what 's said to them . |
| 13 | Religious bigots have often employed the cunning device of converting other people 's heroes into villains , to suit their own purposes . |
| 14 | And one way of negating other people is to treat them as if they are not there . |
| 15 | As a means of controlling other people 's behaviour , it meets the essential criterion of power , but is largely unanalysed . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We know from years of experience that we are not capable of reading other people 's problems as well as they are . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Billy Bragg has the unusual gift of making other people 's songs his own by the simple expedient of singing them . |
| 22 | The sheer pleasure of discovering other people 's domestic arrangement stirred in her . |
| 23 | To lead him work , instead of borrowing other people 's in the yard . |
| 24 | Before having the HIV antibody test , a person should consider the implications of telling other people about the test and its result . |
| 25 | Develop will be erm , shown , but it is not about running it 's about medieval Shrewsbury , many towns have these , the Yorvik one 's been spectacularly successful , and has been copied in places like Canterbury for those that saw Songs of Praise last night , with even , erm , it is evident that this will be a new visitor attraction for the town with a generation of jobs , permanent jobs in , in that er , facility , it will improve the erm , appearance of main entrance into the town centre , very important in terms of attracting other people in the future , unfortunately the Borough Council have n't quite got enough money , or they tell us . |
| 26 | In the home you 're a wife , a mother , a daughter , an aunt , a grandmother , a niece , but you 're only defined in relationship to somebody else and your function is mainly one of servicing other people , of creating a context in which other people live . |