Example sentences of "people [adv] [vb base] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People only wish to see doctors when they are sick , but the National Health Service has not encouraged people like me to seek preventative health advice . |
| 2 | Some people only have to take the faintest whiff of the entrance hall of a hospital to be sharply transported back in time to relive a traumatic hospital experience ( endured during childhood perhaps ) ; they may feel shaky or even nauseous . |
| 3 | " It seems people only have to look at me to know . |
| 4 | The trouble is that people only start to read these magazines after they think of themselves as computer users — and the point they most need help is when they are deciding what to buy . |
| 5 | A spokesman for the Warrington Disabled Information Group , based at the Dallam Centre , said : ‘ People only need to give details they feel comfortable about . ’ |
| 6 | Funny thing , she thought as she turned the grubby pages , that people only seem to stop complaining when things get really bad . |
| 7 | But mostly now the Saudi people only want to kill Saddam . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It is a particular shame for Neil because there were far worse things going on in the game but some people only want to see the dark side of him . |
| 9 | And there 's so much voluntary work to be done if people have got spare time to go and help but , I do n't know whether it 's the sign of the times that people only want to do jobs for monetary gain . |
| 10 | Unfortunately it does not seem to carry much weight these days , people only want to trust when it suits them |
| 11 | ‘ It would n't be worth it … people only want to hear new issues not scratchy old ones … ’ and so on . |
| 12 | People especially like to pat foals , and unfortunately usually on their face or head , which scares the wits out of them . |
| 13 | I mean some people obviously try to comply with it . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ People obviously want to shop on Sundays — we have over 3,500 customers every Sunday . |
| 15 | People naturally want to retire and it is therefore important to offer opportunities for fulfilment in leisure , education and voluntary activities and to recognise the valuable role played by older people within the family . |
| 16 | I do n't mean that people necessarily have to like what 's going on . |
| 17 | Oh it should be covered definitely , I mean I watch I mean you 've got all the extended programmes , I mean last night I watched the nine o'clock news until ten o'clock and then the one o'clock news at dinner time until two and , and erm various things , I mean I think it 's quite enough myself , I mean I 'm speaking as an ex-soldier at seventy years old , and I think well I do n't think really that people necessarily want to hear it all , even the people who 've got people over there . |
| 18 | ‘ What becomes more difficult , and what the geoscientists , drillers and completions people all work to ensure , is that the well is drilled in such a way as to make the completion process as routine as possible . ’ |
| 19 | Most people just listen to weather forecasts and either believe them or do n't believe them and certainly get cross with people like yourselves if it |
| 20 | The people just have to trust the administrators at a certain point , rather than trying to er second guess all of their decisions . |
| 21 | This is one very good aspect of such projects , I think , that the interesting work is to be done at the interface between one discipline — medicine in this case and another discipline — computer science — where both people just have to learn to talk to each other in their own language . |
| 22 | For the most part people just want to get on with life as best they can . |
| 23 | Grades , percentages and category labels are hopelessly inadequate to convey the load of meaning that we sometimes believe we are putting into them and which other people desperately try to get out from them again . |
| 24 | In considering products , it is important to note that people generally want to acquire the benefits of the product , rather than its features . |
| 25 | So in practical terms of helping shoppers to make sound buying choices , the value of increased familiarity with APRs is somewhat curtailed by the way that people generally seem to equate it with the add-on cost of the credit . |
| 26 | Most bereaved people soon begin to discover that grief does not settle in their life like a gravestone , permanent and immovable : it lives , moves and changes , like all great emotions , and they finally emerge from it not crippled , but stronger in many ways than they were before , in spite of their loss . |
| 27 | Places that some people somehow seem to pass by , in search of more recently heard of hot spots . |
| 28 | Its roots are tenacious and most people still wish to acknowledge the ideal of Christian values , as George Carey , Archbishop of Canterbury , noted at the 1991 2nd Malvern Conference , " I would deny that Britain is post-Christian — I think that people have basic Christian values which they would be very reluctant to let go . " |
| 29 | I know it 's commonsense but unfortunately a lot of people still tend to leave these er objects lying about in easy reach of the young child , okay ? |
| 30 | Older people still tend to use Esq , but it is becoming less widespread , and it 's now hardly ever seen in America , Canada , Australia or New Zealand . |