Example sentences of "people [v-ing] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It communicates the moods , sentiments and behaviour of young people meeting to enjoy each other 's company as young people always do though not usually to Chopin 's romantic music . |
| 2 | The Clinton/Gore transition team is using Sun workstations with Resumix software to process 2,000 to 3,000 resumes a day from people looking to fill all those old Republican jobs by Inauguration Day . |
| 3 | Okay , now generally , you 're gon na find , I would have thought , that you 're not going to get many people wanting to retire much below fifty-five . |
| 4 | Erm but it did n't come from professionals at all , it came from people wanting to make some other kind of statement , about what what Flats were like . |
| 5 | The as I said this , this is required for identification for the organism , but the to the toxin has been recognised for a very , very long time and right from er , the early days the possibility of inactivating the biological properties of a toxin while retaining their immunological properties has been attractive to people seeking to prevent these diseases . |
| 6 | Q : But what are people going to do all day in this TV-less world ? |
| 7 | I mean , when I think the world is , they talk about this bloody green stuff , god , bollocks , what , what , what is the green people going to do all about these of flooding and things of this erm , eh , Kath would you like another drink ? |
| 8 | They 're transcribing it all , there are people going to transcribe all of this , write it all out , attach grammatical tags to us , and this body of work is going to be , t available to students of language , and so on . |
| 9 | We also see many people striving to improve these conditions . |
| 10 | Another pools prediction program for people wishing to make some real money . |
| 11 | Maybe there are other ways and other ways of forming relationships without people getting to know that person or working with that person . |
| 12 | Mr Chairman erm I would like personally take up a suggestion that was in The Star about the possibility of a regional company being based at the playhouse in other words for a few months I would see it as people getting to know this company and rather like a repertory theatre of old then people would want to come and see these people in different roles and I think that would add to the you know repetitive . |
| 13 | The daily sight of people squirming to avoid each other in a crowded tube train shows how uncomfortable we feel when our personal space is invaded . |
| 14 | You 're talking there about a bunch of people trying to stop another bunch of people 's expression of what they see , when they know absolutely nothing about them . |
| 15 | You 're talking there about a bunch of people trying to stop another bunch of people 's expression of what they see , when they know absolutely nothing about them . |
| 16 | There are in fact people trying to do this sort of thing . |
| 17 | It is a legitimate debate and of course the parroting of it as the only way forward is inappropriate to serious people trying to discuss that . |