Example sentences of "people [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I mean I think that if it was spread more I mean if if if people locally gave more to bereaved in their own areas , I mean it would go down a lot more good there . |
| 2 | And his Foreign Minister Pik Botha said : ‘ We are sending a message to the world that South Africa is a place where people only kill each other . |
| 3 | It 's not people only make this job difficult I believe erm if they do n't listen to the people who 's who have been doing these things for twenty years . |
| 4 | Most people only use that road to get to the villa itself and the two farms beyond it . |
| 5 | But he was singing ; people only do that either if they are drunk or if they are trying to collect some money , in which case they will sing and sing all day , having no other means of getting it . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's just that most people only realise that in dreams . |
| 7 | So I see evaluation as a very democratic activity , which allows people perhaps to appreciate each other 's viewpoints a little more than might otherwise be the case erm and does n't pretend that people all feel the same about things , but at the same time it does n't attempt to sort of countermand the realities of the situation that , you know , each person ca n't go their own sweet way , there have to be quite a lot of collective decisions and people have to recognise where the majority opinion is , but at least they do it from a standpoint that erm where they feel their own value still has some worth and is still being recognised . |
| 8 | Erm for instance , you go to one meeting and erm you would just sort of , mind you I think probably you may not agree , young people perhaps think this is the best way . |
| 9 | It continues to bring transport people together to strengthen that voice . |
| 10 | The physical care of frail old people necessarily involves much attention to food and to toileting . |
| 11 | Some people literally develop another life in which they display a side of themselves that would shock their pupils as much as their colleagues if they were to find out . |
| 12 | Whatever the reason may be : investment programmes , wars , fears of conflict , or the enforcement of a regime , they all stem from global mistrust and deception , and such great amounts of money could be directed in other ways if people all trusted each other and armament production was open . |
| 13 | The other six people all used this same excuse , but at least they had some hair to wash . |
| 14 | And er the people just accepted that , and they did n't keep them from coming , because at most of the time , er the |
| 15 | There 's a power cut ; the lights go out and we light candles and gas lamps and end up — a hard core of seven of us ; Andy , me , Howie , another two local lads and a couple of the traveller boys — down in the snooker room where there 's a beat-up looking table and a leak in the ceiling that turns the whole of the stained , green-baize surface into a millimetre-shallow marsh , water dripping from each pocket and dribbling down the bulky legs to the sopping carpet , and we play snooker by the light of the hissing gas lamps , having to hit the white ball really hard even for delicate shots because of the extra rolling resistance the water causes , and the balls make a zizzing , ripping noise as they race across the table and sometimes you can see spray curving up behind them and I 'm feeling really drunk and a bit stoned from a couple of strong Js smoked out in the garden earlier with the travellers but I think this dimly lit water-hazard snooker is just hilarious and I 'm laughing maniacally at it all and I put an arm round Andy 's neck at one point and say , You know I love you , old buddy , and is n't friendship and love what 's it 's really all about ? and why ca n't people just see that and just be nice to each other ? except there are just so many complete bastards in the world , but Andy just shakes his head and I try to kiss him and he gently fends me off and steadies me against one wall and props me up with a snooker cue against my chest and I think this is really funny for some reason and laugh so much I fall over and have distinct problems getting up again and get carried to my room by Andy and one of the travellers and dumped on the bed and fall instantly asleep . |
| 16 | Few people outside know much about a business which quietly supplies products made from salt — and is a substantial contributor to ICI profits . |
| 17 | I said , People generally have more to do with their money . |
| 18 | " Some people already thought this was going beyond what was fair and suitable . " |
| 19 | People normally read fewer newspapers in summer too . |
| 20 | People thus hold less of their wealth in the form of money . |
| 21 | AF remains a risk factor for cerebrovascular disease even in the ninth decade , and older people thus have much to gain from primary stroke prevention . |
| 22 | Twenty years on people still remember those visits . |
| 23 | straight and erm a lot of people make that , very experienced sales people still make that mistake cost they 're not used to it . |
| 24 | People still say that in the States . |
| 25 | Few people still believe that today . |
| 26 | ‘ People still think all the money goes to Africa but a third of the money raised so far has stayed in Britain , with 1,600 Comic Relief projects over here , ’ she said . |
| 27 | Some people still got half |
| 28 | People usually make such declarations of opposition to other lineages , other tribes — not to entities which claim superiority . |
| 29 | Ageing people usually relish any opportunity they have to express their feelings . |
| 30 | People usually recorded these performances ; indeed sometimes two or three glittering stereophonic radio-cassette recorders would be placed within microphone distance . |