Example sentences of "most people [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the context that most people put white jackets into is hardly flattering . ’ |
| 2 | Maisie had been more affected by her mother 's death than most people thought possible . |
| 3 | Brief counselling is at least as effective as medication in most people facing such problems ( Catalan et al. 1984 a ) . |
| 4 | is where most people go wrong . |
| 5 | Most people accepted more money needed to be spent on the railways with extra staff to keep them going , he said . |
| 6 | Popular participation in electoral politics began to flag after 1951 but arguably this was because most people felt less urgency as regards political change ; there was no strong and deep-going popular reaction against the government . |
| 7 | Most people wore black and those who could n't afford dark clothing managed to borrow some , and the men wore hard hats . |
| 8 | The next best thing was being given a month 's free credit , and by most people taking this they knocked the wind out of the banker 's sails . |
| 9 | And once Hatchard , the CID man who 'd come round to Dwyer Street on the night in question , had done his bit and told the Coroner twice that he did n't suspect foul play , then most people seemed satisfied and I could get back to enjoying my hangover . |
| 10 | Most people imagine that Queen 's View is named after ‘ unamused ’ Victoria , Scotland 's most famous royal tourist , but in fact the lady in question was Mary , Queen of Scots , who visited Tummel in 1564 , three years after her return from France . |
| 11 | The title of the conference is Old , but Safe , which sums up how most people regard older aircraft . |
| 12 | Most people know that ! |
| 13 | Some solicitors may prefer the atmosphere of a relatively small company where most people know each other . |
| 14 | Most people know some dialect words : for example , bairn for child in Scottish English . |
| 15 | The study found that the intelligence of most people remains constant until the age of 70 and concluded that ‘ for most people life satisfaction does not decline markedly with age , and the ability to function and adapt does not seem related to age . ’ |
| 16 | Most people grew animated at the mention of the supernatural , whether they believed in it or not . |
| 17 | As people 's heads were shaved , scars and cranial disfigurements came to light ; most people had four or five different marks on their scalps , and there was a lot of story telling . |
| 18 | See most people had good intentions , whenever they got a whole lot of stuff from the Cooperative , they would say I 'll lay so much by every week and I 'll have it at the end of the quarter . |
| 19 | In traditional society this would not be regarded as sponging or parasitism , for it was felt that one 's relationship to one 's own son was no closer than that to the sons of siblings , and most people had more nephews than sons . |
| 20 | Most people sit tight rather than lose a slice of what they see as their rightful ‘ profit ’ . |
| 21 | Most people thinks that 's a very long way off , but in the case of something like health then erm we certainly agree health is good for a very long way . |
| 22 | However , it is important to bear in mind that while most people break some , if not many , of the laws of their society , few people are found guilty of criminal offences . |
| 23 | Most people ignored this commandment , although I have heard it said that Pike was to be seen with a compass on a number of occasions , trying to align himself correctly . |
| 24 | Take bathtowels , drying up towels , pillowcases , handtowels , sheets and pillowcases and other bedlinen — most people prefer own for hygiene . |
| 25 | But the central point is that we need firmly to shift out of the mode of thinking that assumes that at pensionable age most people become useless burdens ; to realize that most of them have at least as much to offer as many people in their twenties , and hence actively seek ways to use their abilities positively . |
| 26 | Most people become infected with the virus before they are five years old , often from an innocent kiss from a parent or relative . ’ |
| 27 | if you start , and that 's what most people get wrong with erm bearings in the exam , |
| 28 | Most people got some informal care , and three-quarters had someone who spent on average at least an hour a day doing things with them or on their behalf . |
| 29 | Most people inhabit this in-between land , perhaps not fully accepting the concept of reincarnation but none the less thinking that ‘ there must be something there ’ . |
| 30 | Most people avoid anxious horses with good reason . |