Example sentences of "the people [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This had been so ‘ from ancient times ’ ( izdrevle ) , and the peoples living within this vast area were said to be undertaking their seasonal migrations with Russian permission . |
| 2 | possibly representing one of the peoples conquered by Augustus . |
| 3 | All the peoples traded in the products of their particular region , exchanging goods by means of barter . |
| 4 | Three centuries of colonialism were then imposed on the peoples seized from Africa to work on its plantations . |
| 5 | So after you 've finished training , you 're going down to the library , yes , to look up the names of the people luve in Street , and once you 've been on that appointment you 've got to go back to the branch and you 're gon na do your mail shots whatever you 're gon na do , put it in there . |
| 6 | Virtually none of the people looked at in this demonstration have gone into an informal care setting where they are relying to a large degree on informal caring . |
| 7 | As in 1813 the people looked to us to destroy the Napoleonic terror , so today in 1943 they look to us to destroy the terror of National Socialism . |
| 8 | The people looked like thieves and liars . |
| 9 | Which of the people engaged in work there may consider that tourists are a nuisance , or damaging to their activities ? |
| 10 | F. Just five large industries employed most of the people engaged in production . |
| 11 | Sometimes the people engaged in them will have attitudes to , and feelings about , old people which are not acceptable and may even be ageist . |
| 12 | It is evident that the people engaged in fighting wars — or for that matter , any kind of fighting — are by no means necessarily aggressive , either in the course of action or beforehand . |
| 13 | She suggests that the people studied by Ellis were mainly those who were merely powerful or influential enough to get their names in the Dictionary of National Biography , rather than necessarily being intellectually creative . |
| 14 | Whether it is the kind of high quality housing that Myra lives in , or the rotten housing that the people studied by Coates and Silburn in the Nottingham slum of St Ann 's once lived in , and which people in leaking tower blocks continue to live in ( Campbell , 1984 ) , the end product is work . |
| 15 | Thorne asked the people to vote for Mansfield |
| 16 | Milton departs from the biblical account which has the people suffer with their rulers . |
| 17 | He looked at the people drinking in the restaurant bar , and thought the same . |
| 18 | In reality , Scotland 's premier stadium-fillers have always striven for scale on a windswept , neo-Celtic level ; grand dreams , grander schemes , the proverbial men of the people reaching for the impossible . |
| 19 | On the Alpha , DEC said that roll-out of Alpha-based systems continues on schedule but that because it is a major programme , it will continue to take several quarters to implement fully — and rather than talk numbers of machines or orders , the company chose to focus on the people writing for the thing , saying that more than 500 Alpha AXP applications from partners and 50 software products are available today . |
| 20 | About half of the people detained under Immigration Act powers in general do not wish to challenge the decision that they should leave but they need help winding up their affairs here , contacting their friends and families and pressing the Home Office to process their cases quickly so that they do not have to spend unnecessarily long periods in prison . |
| 21 | Sukarno proclaimed a state of emergency and called on the people to choose between himself and Musso : ‘ My beloved people , in the name of the struggle for Indonesian independence I appeal to you . ’ |
| 22 | When this happens , the people go on a hunting spree . |
| 23 | the people come into the village |
| 24 | How is it that the people come to be discussing certain issues |
| 25 | er is not a possibility of having more open days so that general public can come in to see what 's happening and not only advertise in Harlow but advertise I live in Bishop 's Stortford now in the surrounding districts erm time gets although you said you get fifty per cent of people coming from outside of Harlow it does n't matter where the people come from as long as they come so more open days free erm to get people to come in and er particularly er outside people also I would suggest that the er chairman 's of the local district council 's who are not contributing be invited to the open day to see what er the playhouse is doing for the people who live in there er council area 's to see whether we can get some more supports er as a Stortford resident I 'd be quite happy to add a bit on my community charge to go to the playhouse . . |
| 26 | F the people come from London to that . |
| 27 | I 'm not quite sure where the people come from , and where we 're going to put them . |
| 28 | They have succeeded in corrupting many of the people charged with the protection of the Indians and forests . |
| 29 | And even while that was happening , the chaotic nature of the theatre contrived to show up the differences between those who seek to entertain and the people charged with protecting our welfare . |
| 30 | A woman whose husband was shot dead is to get compensation , even though the people charged with the killing were cleared . |