Example sentences of "and [verb] other people " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of withdrawing and being generally anti-social , as I had been , I began to argue with people — teachers and pupils alike — and to disrupt other people 's activities for the sake of disruption . |
| 2 | If what we look like can influence how we feel about ourselves and influence other people 's attitudes , then let us cash in on it by taking an interest in appearance . |
| 3 | The final events that lead our dieter to break the diet are quite concrete , namely , walking into a café , seeing and smelling the pastries , and seeing other people happily enjoying them . |
| 4 | You 're paying somebody to like you and to encourage other people to like you , which is a bit of a bizarre concept . |
| 5 | I 'd love to be a record success again , but the last LP I made was so bloody personal it was ludicrous : you ca n't write songs about those you love , your children , and expect other people to buy them … |
| 6 | The absence of her own , however , has enabled her to spend a lifetime amusing and instructing other people 's . |
| 7 | Of course , and if you go back to the answer Beana was giving , even within a country if you try if we try and solve other people 's problems , one is very likely , if not always , to end up with those sorts of difficulties . |
| 8 | In the night he might be heard running up and down his attic bedroom banging the wall at each end , and keeping other people awake . |
| 9 | If you write a fair amount , and read your work critically and let other people criticise it , you will get better . |
| 10 | And a killjoy is one that do n't enjoy himself and let other people |
| 11 | I had developed a deft hand at writing bills and counterfeiting other people 's signatures , my master 's included . |
| 12 | While the assaults were carried out , Marron played hymns and the Hallelujah Chorus , to drown out his victims cries and stop other people in the house hearing what was going on . |
| 13 | In the meantime , try to keep up a social life and meet other people . |
| 14 | Given that it is good for many people to get out of the home and meet other people at work , and that it is crucially important not to leave re-entry into the labour market until the person 's children have grown up , these disregard rules need to be reversed as soon as possible . |
| 15 | Do you try to get to know and understand other people ? |
| 16 | We know it is foolish to be too trusting of other people , but may we be prepared to take risks sometimes and give other people a chance to get close to us . |
| 17 | Sentencing , Judge David Bryant told the gang : ‘ Dishonest people like you who choose to make your living out of stealing , transforming and selling other people 's motor cars can expect substantial sentences of imprisonment . ’ |
| 18 | They want to know how or what for , about every thing , then at the end they say ‘ Rubbish ! ’ and they tease and tell other people . |
| 19 | And to let other people , all the lazy , sulky , hopeless ones like you , know that someone cares . |
| 20 | People are interpreting other people 's language — and expecting other people to interpret their own — in this way all the time , apparently with a surprising degree of accuracy . |
| 21 | People are interpreting other people 's language — and expecting other people to interpret their own — in this way all the time , apparently with a surprising degree of accuracy . |
| 22 | I never thought about going into shops and stealing other people 's things before I came here ; that never crossed my mind . |
| 23 | To write off the ideas and conclusions which one has reached in order to allow an accommodation with other people 's expectations may mean getting rid of a conclusion which the manager had reached after listening to and observing other people 's experience . |
| 24 | Write it out to read it back , not for publishers to petrify and clog other people 's heads with stone thoughts . |
| 25 | and harming other people . |
| 26 | When I retired four years ago , I decided I would like to help and encourage other people to paint , and hopefully get as much pleasure form the hobby as I do , and since that time I have been able to meet up with groups of friends and pass on to them the knowledge I have gained through the pages of your magazine . |
| 27 | Her girlfriend , Josephine , does not take to the water , so Kelly and I go in alone with Simone , treading in unison till the chill is mellowed , and swim to the deep end where we cling to the buoy and discuss other people . |
| 28 | They sometimes find it difficult to see other people 's point of view and to interpret other people 's behaviour . |
| 29 | He does n't work you see — he just sits in an office and tells other people to work . |
| 30 | During the time I knew him , he never took acid as he was very much afraid of it , and counselled other people against it in the sense that he felt it might disturb them psychologically , and felt that 's what might happen to him |