Example sentences of "many people [verb] this " in BNC.

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1 Afterwards many people said this experience had been traumatic but positive .
2 Many people regard this work as a great masterpiece , though , and may well want to hear this impressive new version .
3 Many people ignore this sign , comforting themselves that they probably brushed too hard .
4 Not many people know this , but Othello is the only game at which a computer has beaten the world champion .
5 Novelist Jeffrey Archer : ‘ Not many people know this , but his mother sold my mother their house in Weston-super-Mare .
6 I do n't know how many people know this , but if you 're in custody and you have council accommodation , the council will only pay your rent up to a year .
7 Did you know that the people who sell the milk , the dairies that sell a bring it round to you did you know , not many people know this !
8 I think I 'd have to actually , should have perhaps warned you about this , but er , er , in point of fact , not too many people got this , I think there was one of two that got this wrong .
9 Not many people perceived this quite so soon .
10 Indeed , UAPT have considered , as an identifying factor which would virtually avoid the problem , filing date of birth ( following the example of a Dutch computer-based credit reference bureau ) ; but the reluctance of many people to give this information in this country is an obstacle .
11 Too many people fear this energy .
12 Many people took this game of make-believe to fantastic lengths and went through the whole elaborate business of a preparation for escape without the slightest real intention of ever carrying it out .
13 Again Alice was thinking : So much for easy Impressions ! in this case , and she knew that many people thought this way , that Jasper was Bert 's hanger-on , his disciple .
14 I have since heard that many people thought this to be unfair and an additional class has been effected for next year called the professional amateur class .
15 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 .
16 Many people imagine this .
17 Credit granters told us that they rarely checked information about employment because they found that many people regarded this as an invasion of privacy .
18 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 .
19 Many people do this naturally .
20 How many people think this project ought to be stopped right now before it goes any further ? ’
21 Many people see this as an effort to force Zimbabwe to import fuel from South Africa .
22 Many people spend this on the leisure industries of the towns , such as the races and football .
23 Many people found this a strange attitude from a government committed to law and order .
24 Many people expect this of The Smiths .
25 Many people share this view and appreciate a countryside with neat , close-trimmed hedgerows , bright green fields and no messy patches of rushes , nettles , brambles or gorse .
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