Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I I mean I was thinking you know er it 's probably a good idea for for erm Well I 've heard it proposed by people who do these things |
| 2 | He said , mildly , ‘ I am accustomed to seeing it filled with people , ma'am . ’ |
| 3 | The poll tax failed completely when it came to people 's ability to pay . |
| 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 | That is not how it seemed to people in Ajdabiya or Kufra . |
| 6 | She knew it was a modern world and that it happened to people all the time and that it was n't such a big deal — medically or culturally . |
| 7 | I do believe that then for the first time it dawned on people that Northern Ireland was a series of Catholic and Protestant ghettoes . |
| 8 | It was unreasonable of him to expect her to know what it meant to people like Mrs Appleby to receive a visit from an employer . |