Example sentences of "we [verb] [adj] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few years ago — before 1986 — I was at a party with a few friends and we met some people who used to be in athletics . |
| 2 | One apparent stumbling block to mounting more research is that we lack qualified people to do it or the resources to employ or deploy them , but as so often , a wider and less conventional look at the problem reveals one possible solution . |
| 3 | When we feel guilty we make other people feel that way as a denial of our own sense of pain . |
| 4 | The things that we make sure people know before we get there is the price all right , I 've already mentioned that . |
| 5 | In so doing we influence other people 's behaviour in the only way possible — via our own behaviour . |
| 6 | We trust other people 's judgements more than our own for the simple reason that we know what our judgements are based upon . |
| 7 | Not surprisingly , when we asked deaf people to examine videotapes of teachers using simultaneous communication , their rating of effectiveness closely matched their rating of the teachers ' use of facial expression . |
| 8 | ‘ When we asked young people why they were joining paramilitary groups they said ‘ just look at what the Provos are getting with all their violence . ’ |
| 9 | We asked 250 people who owned Commodore 64 machines which magazines they read , or if more than one , the one they liked best . |
| 10 | ‘ If you take Ebbw Vale as an example , where we rendered 2,500 people redundant in a very close community , we got 1,500 people back to work again within eighteen months by the start-up of nineteen companies . |
| 11 | ‘ We lured 150 people to a party by promising them lots of food and drink and a magical mystery tour , ’ laughs Trevor . |
| 12 | So we supply more people overseas that we are in the U K. |
| 13 | They , they 'll do their part , they see that part as their responsibility , as er , the rule , restocking the wares when I first went there , now they 'll do , like more than one isle per night each , and get away with , when I first went there , we used ten people a night . |
| 14 | Dare we trust such people ever again with the professional autonomy which they once enjoyed ? |
| 15 | So this year , for New Scientist 's student books issue , we invited nine people to select what they thought were the most interesting books for students published during the past year . |
| 16 | ‘ We all love Eldorado and we want other people to love it . ’ |
| 17 | We want young people to write for a much wider range of purposes and audiences . |
| 18 | ‘ Trespassing is not a criminal offence and we want more people to understand that . |
| 19 | The Tories said : ‘ Unlike Labour , we want more people to have the security and satisfaction of owning property . ’ |
| 20 | We want more people to use them , from particular divisions , i.e. if you 've got common numbers , you ca n't really say numbers to the handset adequately , the system has been proved to be , so it 's a lot easier to have common numbers and publish them in the telephone directory , so look out for that when next the lists go round to update it , update the telephone directory . |
| 21 | Jenney wondered whether it is better to try and reduce congestion , or to let it increase , if we want fewer people to drive ? |
| 22 | ‘ In our research , we found disabled people were being discouraged from even thinking about setting up in business , ’ she said . |
| 23 | We found many people , including a large number of radio listeners , who were ill-informed on these matters . |
| 24 | Mm , so I ju , I was just trying to find , but you see , there again you 're new people , we found new people last week did n't we . |
| 25 | There was a disco where beer was on sale but thoughts of dancing the night away evaporated when we found other people were using it for sleeping . |
| 26 | We found some people who are just mad about hats and discovered why they like their favourite headgear . |
| 27 | We say professional people but erm we 're we 're talking about people who er are in a profession . |
| 28 | Last night , the East German Foreign Ministry issued a statement attacking the attitude of the refugees : ‘ Some East German citizens will justifiably ask why we let these people emigrate to West Germany via East Germany , even though they had grossly violated our laws , ’ said the statement read as the main television news item . |
| 29 | Should we send such people to prison , so that they can learn how to become professional criminals ? |
| 30 | The result is that we kill 5,000 people and maim a quarter of a million on our roads in the name of personal convenience . |