Example sentences of "people [pron] do n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that was a matter of choice ; there were some people I did n't like , and many more that I did n't even know . |
| 2 | ‘ These days everyone uses computers , and I did n't want to look an idiot if I told people I did n't have a clue how to work one ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ There were two or three who did n't have any remorse ; these people I did n't feel comfortable with . |
| 4 | I was turning to people I did n't know that well and confiding in them , and I could have been led down any garden path . |
| 5 | I wanted to join in , but I was only two and a half , and this was the first time I had been left with people I did n't know . |
| 6 | I found the whisky , let myself out of the cellar and locked it , turned all the lights out , gave Mrs McSpadden the bottle , accepted a belated new-year kiss from her , then made my way out through the kitchen and the corridor and the crowded hall where the music sounded loud and people were laughing , and out through the now almost empty entrance hall and down the steps of the castle and down the driveway and down to Gallanach , where I walked along the esplanade — occasionally having to wave or say ‘ Happy New Year ’ to various people I did n't know — until I got to the old railway pier and then the harbour , where I sat on the quayside , legs dangling , drinking my whisky and watching a couple of swans glide on black , still water , to the distant sound of highland jigs coming from the Steam Packet Hotel , and singing and happy-new-year shouts echoing in the streets of the town , and the occasional sniff as my nose watered in sympathy with my eyes . |
| 7 | I was tired of people I did n't know knowing me . |
| 8 | I said ‘ Hullo ’ to everyone I knew , and Violet Sangston introduced me to the people I did n't know . |
| 9 | So that you can in the end , when I came to do it , although it was seventeen people I did n't find it too difficult . |
| 10 | When she 's with other people I do n't always understand what they 're going on about and that makes me feel stupid . |
| 11 | I 'm really a very shy person and I 'm not that confident conversing with people I do n't know — and girls as well . |
| 12 | I do n't mind presenting to people I do n't know or to the people I work with . |
| 13 | ‘ To the hospital where they take me — instead of people I do n't know ? ’ |
| 14 | People I do n't know and can not influence . |
| 15 | " Locked up in a house with people I do n't even like . " |
| 16 | Especially people I do n't even know ! ’ |
| 17 | And Lucy had promised ; therefore she now said , ‘ I 'm sorry — I promised my mother I 'd never pick up people I do n't know . ’ |
| 18 | So we put ten five pound notes round this very big table and then we 're saying now you 've a hundred and fifty people I do n't know how you managed to get into this room . |
| 19 | Once or twice they 'd had to sleep down there , though not often because Gloria said it was n't nice to be all pressed up against people you did n't know . |
| 20 | I liked the experience of being in a room full of people you did n't know , and knowing by the end of the evening you would all be bosom buddies |
| 21 | Her mother bracketed Turks with the Portuguese and the Maltese — people you did n't know or , if you did , you did n't cross . |
| 22 | ‘ North is right out of John le Carré ’ , he said ; ‘ one of those fascinating mystery people you do n't meet in life or in government . ’ |
| 23 | It was n't easy , but it 's better than burning yourself out making pictures you do n't like for people you do n't respect … |
| 24 | I mean we do n't whether she sort of it does n't say whether she volunteered to go and talk to the people in the school , but even so it 's quite it takes quite a lot of doing to stand up in front of a group of people you do n't know and talk about the work . |
| 25 | Disadvantages : Difficult to get character references , so you 'll have to rely on your own judgement ; you 'll be leaving the children with people you do n't know very well , although if you get a regular commitment you should soon get to know and trust your sitters . |
| 26 | You are forced to sleep with people you do n't even know . |
| 27 | Oh I see so it 's still you know , i insults , you know , it 's something , something to say about people you do n't like . |
| 28 | Shelley , Warren , Carly , Daniel , all people you do n't know . |
| 29 | You stand by the window with a pathetic glass of lemonade while all father 's secretaries drink champagne and try to make conversation with hoards of people who do n't know enough to speak English . |
| 30 | And I 'm giving a voice to the hundreds of people who do n't have a voice . |