Example sentences of "most people [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | Anyone not a fool or a maniac should acknowledge Izzy 's ability to make this stuff work ; most people do this sort of thing very badly and so we call ‘ rock ’ inane and hopeless , but Stradlin brings verve and love to his work and the drooling beast is once more revivified . |
| 5 | Yes , interesting , I 'm going to tell him now , and that three sets , obviously you know , you can work that out in seconds flat , it will be bound to be how most people do this sort of thing , and when it 's their full-time job , Oh , right , just come out of there . |
| 6 | Well that mostly you most people have this impression like that you do the er come away and then go back again . |
| 7 | Not only do most people find this tricky but you run the risk of forgetting how far down the list you have travelled . |
| 8 | Most people run this stretch but we maintain our position by paddling . |
| 9 | Freud was a Hobbesian thinker , erm , in the sense that the id , certainly was egoistic , anti-social and everything that Thomas Hobbes said about human nature , er , could apply to the id , that 's perfectly true , and most people see this , and it 's er it , it 's a commonplace , particularly in the social science writing on Freud . |
| 10 | Most most people play this er with a fairly conventional croquet stroke because the black ball 's the blue ball 's gon na go twice the distance of the red . |