Example sentences of "do [adv] [vb infin] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | Du n no people have said like that will last a really short time or a really long time , but what 's considered a short time I know what a long time is , a long time is like sort of four months three sort of four months onwards in n it for like people our age , what would a short time be they ? |
| 2 | I was glad to see there were no towns here , because I did not want people to question me or pity me . |
| 3 | On the whole , outpatient clinics catered for a less severely ill group of patients and did not reach people with severe mental disorder . |
| 4 | He did not think people wanted harmless fun on Sunday . |
| 5 | Lear must have found this side of Gould the most frustrating and hurtful ; he could not understand someone who did not think people were important . |
| 6 | In some cases the psychiatric service did not admit people to hospital early enough . |
| 7 | If this factor did not influence people , then the average repayment period chosen by people once they had been shown both APR and total cost as well as instalment amount would not vary very much between the different sets of respondents ( that is , those shown just the instalment amounts first , those shown APR too , and those shown total credit cost too ) . |
| 8 | It was felt that training in West Belfast under YTP and JTP did not prepare people , especially the young , for jobs in industry and was not geared towards getting work . |
| 9 | A QC claimed yesterday it would be ‘ absurd ’ if the law did not allow people forced to leave homes made uninhabitable by radioactive contamination to be compensated . |
| 10 | At the best of times , General Kopyion was not informative ; he did not trust people , and gave away as little information as possible . |
| 11 | Subsequent debates have tended to favour the Hobbesian view , arguing for institutions of authority , and dismissing Rousseau as a romantic utopianist who simply did not accept people for what they ‘ really are ’ . |
| 12 | Jesus did not see people , he does see people just as people . |
| 13 | Because the circumstances of many cattle thefts did not encourage people to initiate prosecutions , the statistics greatly underestimated the extent of the crime . |
| 14 | The family refused to be reassured by the expert 's promises that poltergeists did not harm people . |
| 15 | ‘ We failed because we did not raise people 's hopes sufficiently . |
| 16 | He did not address people as equals but spoke down to them . |
| 17 | The Big Four provided the patterns of organisational structures and methodologies in an untried and untested industry , but they did not provide people . |
| 18 | How can we get the message across that counsellors do not make judgements , do not tell people what to do , do not try to force clients to sustain marriages which are no longer sustainable ? |
| 19 | Indecent material may only be displayed in licensed sex shops which have no window display and can not be seen into from the street , do not admit people under 18 years of age and which carry a warning sign to this effect over the door . |
| 20 | Huy himself , who had had to adapt to the new world constructed after Akhenaten 's fall by Horemheb , had learnt above all that ideals do not change people . |
| 21 | Interviews with riot participants indicated bitterness at the media 's failure to highlight prior police-community relations : ‘ They do not show people being stopped and searched in their cars , in their homes and whilst waiting at bus stops ’ , one interviewee complained . |
| 22 | Even if they do not damage people immediately , they could alter DNA and increase the risk of cancer . |
| 23 | ‘ I do not think people are particularly excited about the election because Clinton studied here , ’ she said . |
| 24 | ‘ We tell our residents that we offer homes for life , and we do not expect people to move on , ’ she explained . |
| 25 | We do not want people who know about structuralism or the ‘ new criticism ’ . |
| 26 | The problem is that , because the broadcasters do not want people to receive their signals this way , information is not openly available . |
| 27 | ‘ We do not want people to have to go into betting shops to buy tickets , ’ said one Heritage Department source . |
| 28 | ‘ If you do not wish people to become interested , you must tie your scarf more securely . |
| 29 | You do not mind people from France , I hope ? |
| 30 | ‘ I do not deceive people ! |