Example sentences of "people [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Russia the same effect was produced by Buryats , Tatars , and other eastern peoples encountered on the Trans-Siberian . |
| 2 | For as long as ordinary people remain on the Island , this pub will not change . |
| 3 | Why do many people stay on the farms , with the result that this migration has been less than normal for the UK ? |
| 4 | The UN World Food Programme ( WFP ) estimated that the lives of up to 20,000,000 people depended on the provision of emergency food aid . |
| 5 | BECAUSE VIEW FROM IS A NEW RANGE OF SPORTSWEAR FOR PEOPLE REARED ON THE HEROICS OF LYNN DAVIES , MARY RAND AND DAVID HEMERY . |
| 6 | After consultation with the police the council is asking people to gather on the Boulevard and the nearby Gloucester Street car park , at the rear of the library , which has been reserved for them . |
| 7 | The research aims to describe how people sell on the telephone , how they sell successfully , and what factors make certain calls more successful than others . |
| 8 | In that area many people relied on the coconut plantations for their livelihood . |
| 9 | But Labour prospective parliamentary candidate for Darlington Alan Milburn said it was vital the service be maintained , especially as many elderly people relied on the 11a to take them to shops in North Road and the town centre . |
| 10 | Picture to yourself the furore which they will make in the world when people read on the title-page that they have been composed by a seven-year-old child ; and when the sceptics are challenged to test him , as he already has been , imagine the sensation when he asks someone to write down a minuet or some tune or other and then immediately and without touching the clavier writes in the bass and , if it is wanted , the second violin part … every day God performs fresh miracles through this child . |
| 11 | It was from the people gathered on the rim of this amphitheatre in the dunes that the sighing came . |
| 12 | Seeing the flowers from tepees , the people gathered on the hill and sang and danced their thanks to the Great Spirits who had sent the blooms as a sign of their forgiveness . |
| 13 | That is what insurance companies does anyway , it discriminates against different types of people depending on the risk assessed . |
| 14 | Yes we were told they 're going to be trees like that because they 've had a lot of trouble with pigeons roosting in the erm the mature trees and it 's impossible for people to sit on the benches underneath cos of er pigeon mess . |
| 15 | Over 100 people lived on the lot before the fire . |
| 16 | Only five people lived on the island , so I could work alone , and nobody would discover my awful secret . |
| 17 | The total is then distributed among local authorities on the basis of the number of people listed on the Poll Tax register . |
| 18 | A delegation of 38 Saharan tribal elders ( 19 from Layoun under Moroccan control and 19 from Tindouf under Polisario control ) had met in Geneva on June 4 and had broadly agreed that 74,000 people listed on the census rolls drawn up by Spain for the referendum of 1974 would be eligible to vote . |
| 19 | Tug had a sharp , split-second picture of people walking on the track . |
| 20 | He realized they were no different from him : he and they were all people walking on the dusty road which ends in death . |
| 21 | They think the people walking on the street out there are dreaming of the moment when they can become capitalist serfs again . |
| 22 | And people walking on the pavement all it totally and I thought what a cheek . |
| 23 | Local people interviewed on the film spoke of the emptiness of atheism and even those who remain atheists acknowledged that the spreading of the gospel , now allowed in the country , will only do good . |
| 24 | People sleep on the floor or huddle round television sets . |
| 25 | Well what a lot of people say on the course is I know it 's my responsibility , but I always , I do n't always have the time to train because there 's a lot of backlog , there 's a lot of pressure , it 's and we all say to them that training is like a catch twenty two situation . |
| 26 | ‘ We were all joyous at the scenes of people climbing on the Wall but the problem is , how do you make money on this ? ’ said Charles Clough , chief investment strategist at Merrill Lynch . |
| 27 | The idea of this is for all the people to pull on the rope as hard as possible . |
| 28 | It has very much the same facilities as Delta Five , but is single-user rather than allowing several people to work on the same data , and also has a lower limit on the number of records , transaction files , and so on ; nothing that would really present a problem , unless you were trying to use the system for a fairly large system , in which case you should be using Delta Five . |
| 29 | ‘ Now those players are saying , ‘ we are producing the goods ’ — and while there are people knocking on the door , they 've got to open it . |
| 30 | [ He will say later , ‘ If I 'd relaxed the standard there I 'd have had umpteen other people knocking on the door wanting to do precisely the same thing to save on trade effluent charges . ’ ] |