Example sentences of "do n't [verb] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I did n't think people read Tennyson nowadays , ’ he said , ‘ but then of course you are n't just ‘ people ’ . ’ |
| 2 | We knew they were geologists … they did n't come in contact with anybody on the island , they did n't tell people what they were doing or what they were looking for . |
| 3 | Her straw bonnet had a large brim which was usually turned back from her face , but today she did n't want people looking at her grief so she had tipped the brim down . |
| 4 | I used to be aloof because I did n't want people becoming too familiar . |
| 5 | I did n't want people to think I could n't cope with it , like , 'cos I knew I could . |
| 6 | I did n't want people coming round , I 'd rather take it round to theirs , but you just could n't stop them , y'know what I mean . |
| 7 | Surely He did n't want people to go to the cinema ? |
| 8 | You did n't want people to know about us — ’ |
| 9 | Because I did n't want , because I did n't want people laughing at me like everyone 's here laughing at you . |
| 10 | Juliet could have asked someone to find a phone for her , to get a taxi , but she was aware that she was trembling , near to tears , and she did n't want people to ask questions . |
| 11 | Oh nineteen sixties we , we introduced that with the blessing of the ambulance people as well , it was n't done without careful consideration , because erm we did n't want people to , to just erm introduce it without knowing what we were doing and ever since we used it it 's been a great blessing . |
| 12 | We did n't want people to think it was only for production and engineering . |
| 13 | I think it 's because he got it he did n't want people to see him . |
| 14 | Well I thought well I did n't want people going round there |
| 15 | what they do a lot of these places now , they , put adverts in the paper , they did n't want people , they just put adverts in the paper , they did n't pay for it , see what people are out there and what qualifications they have to have and when things start picking up there , they , they take a pick any people they like |
| 16 | It was a relief when I was moved on to the Sports Desk ; these were gains and losses of a different kind and they did n't involve people getting killed . |
| 17 | You did n't expect people to clock in these days . |
| 18 | But she did n't envy people who had to go to school . |
| 19 | Although he did n't trust people outside the department , this time he knew he had no alternative . |
| 20 | But I did n't offend people . |
| 21 | ‘ There was , ’ said Timothy West , a ‘ dark quality about him that he did n't let people see very much of . |
| 22 | He did n't he also did n't let people know what he was doing as well . |
| 23 | So that if everyone if if people who wrote the dictionaries did n't know people 'd still be going round thinking that everyone said fore head or break fast . |
| 24 | They did n't hang people any more . |
| 25 | He did n't like people watching his horses work from the road but this was only a woman , probably some jumped-up point-to-point type looking for training tips . |
| 26 | I did n't like Mike , ’ she says , ‘ I strolled in and he did n't like me , he was at that age when he did n't like people if they did n't look cool so I hated him because he used to be really sarcastic and I did n't know him well enough to realise that he was only messing . |
| 27 | Charlie did n't like people disagreeing with him . |
| 28 | In front of it were two nineteenth-century metal conservatory chairs for visitors ; they were not very comfortable : Buzz did n't like people to stay too long . |
| 29 | Well if you 've got a cloth er parcel with , with , wrapped in cloth you know everybody knew where you were going and I did n't like people to know I was going to , been to the pawnshop . |
| 30 | I knew she had this little vanity that she did n't like people to see her with her spectacles on . |