Example sentences of "people [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , in a room even estate agents would have difficulty describing as anything other than small , 20 people clung to the perimeter walls as a man with a Chris Waddle haircut hammered out some old rock cliches . |
| 2 | Not to talk about their loss but to have people to go to the pub , cinema , even on holiday with . |
| 3 | The chairman of the Colchester and District Licensed Victuallers ' Association , Malcolm Freund , said the increases would further encourage people to go to the continent to buy alcohol . |
| 4 | Turns out , Deardrie , she 's applied to be an astronaut — I remember seeing the advert , asking for people to go to the moon — it 's not that I 'm jealous , but why did n't she ask me first ? |
| 5 | If the money was ploughed back into dog racing — horse racing enjoys a £40million levy — tracks could improve amenities and strengthen security which would encourage more people to go to the dogs . |
| 6 | But it 's always a , a joy for blind people to go to the theatre |
| 7 | Research has shown — as might be expected — that ‘ natural breaks ’ in programmes allow people to go to the lavatory or brew up a cup of tea rather than watch the commercials . |
| 8 | Julia was half convinced that she should tell the young people to go to the cinema and dances again but she consulted Pat . |
| 9 | Surely He did n't want people to go to the cinema ? |
| 10 | so , erm I hope that , that might make few people visit , but then as I said also in it , you ca n't force people to go to the theatre if they do n't want |
| 11 | We are now charging frail elderly people , physically and mentally handicapped people to go to the day car facilities that they so value and so need . |
| 12 | Speaking in Birmingham yesterday Ramblers ' chairman Dr Geoff Eastwood said : ‘ While millions of people flock to the countryside to enjoy its footpaths and open spaces , those who live in the cities and are without the means to travel to the countryside are losing out on a great potential leisure resource right on their doorsteps . ’ |
| 13 | In contrast , the nearest most deaf people got to the War was to receive training in rifle practice and to learn how to dig trenches in case the Germans managed to invade . |
| 14 | Now , a lot of people got to the one month happily , the thirty nine , but only fifteen out of these thirty nine made it to six months . |
| 15 | The general concern over the welfare of deaf people led to the formation of more institutes and to centres for the deaf being opened in towns and cities where previously none had existed . |
| 16 | Of youth crime , it said : ’ Considering the significant contribution that young people make to the crime problem , both as victims and offenders , the working group was surprised by the lack of references to specific strategies for preventing crime by and against young people . ’ |
| 17 | On May 10th , 38 people tottered to the top , took a quick look at the view and scrambled down again . |
| 18 | Dr Mitchell has spent the last five months getting people to write to the Royal Mail Stamp Programme Manager in London to lobby for a set of stamps honouring his father 's work . |
| 19 | So long as it maintains the idea that believers talking to unbelievers are like people explaining to the blind what it is like to see , reason may be tolerated . |
| 20 | It seems , too , that certain specific proposals in Caring for People relating to the care of mentally disordered people are something of an afterthought ; certainly they read that way . |
| 21 | The Profitboss does n't control punctuality nor what his people say to the press . |
| 22 | And she was the first that got on horseback , and with some fifty that were with her , did some hurt to the company of the Cid ; but in fine they slew her , and her people fled to the camp . |
| 23 | AS temperatures soared into the 70 's all across the north west , sensible people headed to the nearest beach . |
| 24 | It was pleasant to see people returning to the old ways , he said . |
| 25 | Colonel Durand , in command of the defences , who had only a few militia and the usual garrison ‘ invalids ’ under him , sent a desperate appeal for assistance to Field Marshal Wade , while the sudden departure of people returning to the surrounding countryside — Saturday 9 November 1745 was a market day in Carlisle — added to his difficulties , as an eye-witness recorded : |
| 26 | However , most modern studies on the police emphasize the variety of people attracted to the force and now focus more on styles of policing ( for example , see Black 1980 ; Broderick 1973 ; Brown 1981 ; Cain 1973 ; Muir 1977 ; Reiner 1978 , 1985 ; Shearing 1981 ; Walsh 1977 ; Wilson 1968 ) , although the idea that policing attracts people with distinct personality traits is still popular among some social psychologists ( see Colman 1983 ; Colman and Gorman 1982 ; cf. Waddington 1982 ) . |
| 27 | On the one hand he had to contend with a tough gang of young people attracted to the youth club , and on the other to care for the elderly people who made up a considerable proportion of his congregation . |
| 28 | The people who gravitate to it are the so-called " funsters " — people attracted to the entertainment business . |
| 29 | The potential problem would appear to be that any people attracted to the list as a result of these publications may take offence at what/how things are said . |
| 30 | The gigantic man turned him slowly , against the tide of people pressing to the epicentre , and planted him squarely on his feet . |