Example sentences of "many people [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | About how many people use that centre ? |
| 32 | Many people use this form of assurance as a method of financing a house purchase , in other words a building society will accept the policy as a guarantee of repayment of the capital sum at the end of the term , meanwhile you pay interest payments each month to the building society . |
| 33 | Many people imagine this . |
| 34 | Credit granters told us that they rarely checked information about employment because they found that many people regarded this as an invasion of privacy . |
| 35 | In fact , he was married , although not many people knew this , and his wife had a serious and incurable disease called lupus , which at times took quite a toll on his own emotions and energy . |
| 36 | Too many people did that in the last recession and ended up with fancy new furniture in the living room , photos of an expensive holiday abroad , a few remains of once fashionable clothes and masses of debts . |
| 37 | ‘ Do you have any idea how many people do that ? ’ |
| 38 | Many people do this naturally . |
| 39 | Many people think that is just a waste of time . |
| 40 | ( And then wistfully , turning on the full power of my innocent blue eyes ) Yes , I 'm afraid many people think that . ’ |
| 41 | How many people think this project ought to be stopped right now before it goes any further ? ’ |
| 42 | Many people see this as an effort to force Zimbabwe to import fuel from South Africa . |
| 43 | ‘ Many people feel that Radio 1 has just made a couple of minor alterations to get the critics off their backs . |
| 44 | Very many people spend much of their lives thinking about what is going to happen or what has happened . |
| 45 | Many people spend much of their lives indoors and tobacco smoke can make a significant , measurable contribution to the level of indoor air pollution [ 1 ] . |
| 46 | Many people spend more time planning a holiday than in preparing for retirement , which may well occupy up to thirty years of life . |
| 47 | MANY people spend more time worrying about how they are going to cope with catering for Christmas than they do actually cooking the bird and all the trimmings . |
| 48 | Many people spend this on the leisure industries of the towns , such as the races and football . |
| 49 | I grew up with gangs , we 've had gangs in South Central LA since the beginning , but there was not as many people killing each other . ’ |
| 50 | Many people have such potential energy and ability that even the most demanding work environment can not stop them achieving recognition and expertise in other areas . |
| 51 | In poor societies not many people have much discretionary income left after they have satisfied their basic needs of food and shelter , if indeed they can satisfy these at all . |
| 52 | Not many people have that kind of money , so it is important to take a long-term view of saving . |
| 53 | ‘ What I was trying to do was reflect our extraordinary lives now , when so many people have several marriages . |
| 54 | Many people have both . |
| 55 | Many people have both . |
| 56 | Fortunately many people have some warning before an attack . |
| 57 | Many people have some sort of legal fees insurance without realising it . |
| 58 | Of course , if wealth is defined in this very broad way , then we would expect very many people to possess some ; in fact the most recent figures still show very striking inequalities in wealth distribution . |
| 59 | Many people found that being disabled helped to break down professional barriers . |
| 60 | Many people found this a strange attitude from a government committed to law and order . |