Example sentences of "had [verb] [adj] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only one in eight local authorities had consulted disabled people before preparing a draft plan . |
| 2 | Pepe 's Beach Bar was crowded as usual , and the disco music had attracted young people from the holiday village in Santa Barbara del Samana , as well as many locals . |
| 3 | Half thought sex and violence on television had caused young people 's behaviour to get worse . |
| 4 | I had imagined go-it-alone people to be temperamentally independent-minded and even rebellious — and perhaps to feel a kind of robust roguishness at cheating the taxman on principle . |
| 5 | They had served deaf people faithfully and with devotion for more than a century and were correctly described in the same editorial as " dedicated men , universal guides philosopher , and friends who had been on call at every hour of the day . |
| 6 | There must be equality of rights for all citizens regardless of nationality ; and there could be no excuse for discrimination against any of them , nor for ‘ extremist gatherings ’ which had terrorised local people who were not of the majority affiliation . |
| 7 | We had to get other people to finish off the work . ’ |
| 8 | They had passed lone people wandering around , screaming at the moon . |
| 9 | He – had lived an evil life , and had destroyed other people 's lives as well . |
| 10 | He had to show other people , that he had gone because that was what boss 's did . |