Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er er sort of phone call one afternoon at half past four from the deputy , oh by the way , in fact if we had n't been talking to any Brummies on a we would 've been interviewing people and telling them that they 'd got a three year and these are all points that are gon na be brought up next week , but I do n't see there is any possibility of them doing an about turn because they 've gone public on it . |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp 's chief hatchet man Steve Ballmer has been telling people that Windows NT will be available in May : meanwhile object-oriented Cairo is now apparently being referred to as NT Version 2 . |
| 3 | Microsoft Corp 's chief hatchetman Steve Ballmer has been telling people Windows NT will be available in May . |
| 4 | The point has been to set people free from constraints ; and leave them free to take advantage of the opportunities around them . |
| 5 | What happens if we 've got an emergency situation and how come when you got about three or four different authorities to deal with that matter and the other thing that has been said people said it to me , the question of building and in some parts of West Sussex we 've got concrete jungles and that itself can cause flooding because water does n't drain would do through natural resources through its natural well drain away . |
| 6 | ‘ Our purpose in coming has been to give people experience and it was always going to be a hard tournament against Brazil and Germany . |
| 7 | Nicolette 's fusion of banging bass and meandering , torchy vocals — spiced with American blues and African music influences — has been impressing people since she was signed by north London 's Shut Up And Dance in 1990 . |
| 8 | ( The writer 's just-seven-year-old son has been reading People we know — level 6 , book 1 in the Ginn Reading Programme — to him this morning , with evident enjoyment . |
| 9 | Apparently , someone called Harry Kellerman has been phoning people up about George , and giving him ‘ the bad mouth all over town ’ . |
| 10 | For 21 years , the Open University has been changing people 's lives . |
| 11 | For over 400 years , for example , the British Foreign Office has been opening people 's mail , reading their telegrams and , more recently , listening to their telephone calls . |
| 12 | There is evidence that this tactic had some effect in marginal seats and , indeed , made the overall result far better for Labour than it would have been had people not voted tactically . |
| 13 | The good , sturdy , private sector alternative would have been to leave people waiting in the rain . |
| 14 | So they 'd have been picking people in their thirties then , now they 'd be in their sixties . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm not being critical of our unions , but there should have been marketing people approaching the corporates even during the World Cup ’ , he says . |
| 16 | Ali , it turned out , had been sentencing people to death for years . |
| 17 | It might not be her number one priority but she had been organising people as long as she could remember . |
| 18 | It had been assisting people over the wall longer than anyone could remember . |
| 19 | She had been phoning people who might go to Greece with her or drive her there or , failing that , pay her air-fare , and eventually she succeeded in getting a loan from an aunt and an offer of a place in a minibus from an old schoolfellow and her boyfriend . |
| 20 | The chairman had been introducing people for an eternity , and still no sign of him . |
| 21 | Customs ' spokesman John Barber said that excise verification teams in East Anglia had been investigating people who brought goods back from the Continent and sold them . |
| 22 | She had been interviewing people since nine that morning and was tired . |
| 23 | you 've been told you 've been training people ai n't you ? |
| 24 | Heaven knows , I 've been telling people for years , and , strangely , it is n't entirely untrue . |
| 25 | You 've been telling people for two years that you 'll never be an investigator again . |
| 26 | I 've been hearing people moaning about that while I was temping . |
| 27 | It 's absolutely massive , yes , it 's a national er campaign , so we 've been recruiting people from all kinds of ways ; direct mail , er getting in touch with people who 've done it for us before , er through magazines and so on and the whole thing has been a major logistical undertaking . |
| 28 | ‘ That 's the kind of thing I 've been making people do all day . |
| 29 | ‘ We have been telling people children should n't play with matches for years but the message is n't getting across . |
| 30 | In fact for many years , the banks have been telling people to seek legal independent advice er since March nineteen ninety two , this has been a requirement of all loans . |