Example sentences of "people [verb] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emmie thought she had never heard people laugh so much or sound so happy . |
| 2 | The last words were drowned out as four or five people produced as much sound as several shifts of riveters on a super-liner . |
| 3 | Most people eat too much fat . |
| 4 | Nine in 10 people eat too much fat — which can be a trigger of heart disease . |
| 5 | Pinko 's people bringing in all sorts — I do n't know who they are . |
| 6 | We suggest that working-class people make rather more of a ‘ thing ’ of the whole business than do middle-class people , irrespective of their religious beliefs . |
| 7 | People who are overweight are more likely to have heart attacks ; there is also a link between certain forms of cancer and people eating too much stodgy food . |
| 8 | But there were some very good people lived down those streets . |
| 9 | ‘ Some people expect too much . ’ |
| 10 | Cos the people want too much for them ! |
| 11 | ‘ Looks like we 're not the only people to work out this Mallory thing . ’ |
| 12 | The bar is full of people dusting off all their fishing horror stories . |
| 13 | A spokeswoman for tour operator Thomson , which is taking 80,000 people away , said : ‘ We are going to have people further afield this Christmas than ever before . |
| 14 | You see what happens is people show up all dressed up in their togs and whatever from school , or maybe , maybe , maybe they 're power dressing |
| 15 | Cocaine is a very nasty drug , causing people to talk too much and to stay up too late , but it does not , in my experience , make you violent . |
| 16 | If people hold relatively more money , the velocity of circulation is thereby reduced , thus reducing the effect on aggregate demand . |
| 17 | Most business people receive so much correspondence that it is difficult for them to deal with all their correspondence immediately on receipt . |
| 18 | The World Bank has too many people costing too much and working in the wrong place . |
| 19 | The aim of the staff will be to make people feel as much at home as possible . |
| 20 | It 's like , I 've already been asked , and I 've refused , and I want to know why is it people put so much pressure on you to get married ? |
| 21 | Well , it would depend but I mean there are various of nuisance from noise in the flats , or anywhere where you 've got a lot of people put together all living in a s fairly small area . |
| 22 | I mean if , if people smoke too much , I mean they should put the kids before the c the cigarettes , and erm people I have heard say that , I 've seen in the pub three or four nights a week . |
| 23 | Even though thousands of people die violently each year in Sri Lanka , the death of an important figure causes national anguish . |
| 24 | Executive director Andrew Dougal said that 2,439 people die prematurely each year in the province because of smoking . |
| 25 | There are similar cylinders on the site , and the police have been interviewing people living there all day . |
| 26 | Unfortunately , injured people give off more electricity and so are particularly vulnerable . |
| 27 | They overheated the economy , people borrowed too much and that has undermined consumer spending , but every Government since the war has made mistakes . |
| 28 | Study shows 100,000 young people run away each year |
| 29 | And as says , in some cases this becomes a very powerful force in the personality , some people mobilize so much guilt and hatred against themselves of course it does become self-destructive . |
| 30 | ‘ There was , ’ said Timothy West , a ‘ dark quality about him that he did n't let people see very much of . |