Example sentences of "but it [verb] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ British colonialism was no good , but it taught people to read . |
| 2 | Italian colonialism was no good , but it taught people to work . |
| 3 | The ‘ history of the common man ’ ( that is , the history unspecialized people make ) may be moonshine by professional standards , but it shapes people 's understanding of the world , and their decisions about how to act , like any other assimilated experience . |
| 4 | Again , it avoided the words black and white but it classified people as patrials and non-patrials ; in general terms , patrials , who can come and go as they wish , are almost always white ; non-patrials are almost never white . |
| 5 | but it meant people could go up to the box office and take a tape recorder and sit and listen to them |
| 6 | Er But it took people busy to get it paid , you know , and in fact there was some people that could n't , er and it became a big worry to people . |
| 7 | Why is it it seems to me also , and I may be totally wrong here , but it seems people who are least likely to look after themselves are the ones who want to have animals ? |
| 8 | This was not true — he was very much a dilettante in these things — but it shocked people into making the changes we needed . |