Example sentences of "people [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For as long as ordinary people remain on the Island , this pub will not change . |
| 2 | Why do many people stay on the farms , with the result that this migration has been less than normal for the UK ? |
| 3 | The UN World Food Programme ( WFP ) estimated that the lives of up to 20,000,000 people depended on the provision of emergency food aid . |
| 4 | BECAUSE VIEW FROM IS A NEW RANGE OF SPORTSWEAR FOR PEOPLE REARED ON THE HEROICS OF LYNN DAVIES , MARY RAND AND DAVID HEMERY . |
| 5 | After consultation with the police the council is asking people to gather on the Boulevard and the nearby Gloucester Street car park , at the rear of the library , which has been reserved for them . |
| 6 | The research aims to describe how people sell on the telephone , how they sell successfully , and what factors make certain calls more successful than others . |
| 7 | In that area many people relied on the coconut plantations for their livelihood . |
| 8 | But Labour prospective parliamentary candidate for Darlington Alan Milburn said it was vital the service be maintained , especially as many elderly people relied on the 11a to take them to shops in North Road and the town centre . |
| 9 | Picture to yourself the furore which they will make in the world when people read on the title-page that they have been composed by a seven-year-old child ; and when the sceptics are challenged to test him , as he already has been , imagine the sensation when he asks someone to write down a minuet or some tune or other and then immediately and without touching the clavier writes in the bass and , if it is wanted , the second violin part … every day God performs fresh miracles through this child . |
| 10 | It was from the people gathered on the rim of this amphitheatre in the dunes that the sighing came . |
| 11 | Seeing the flowers from tepees , the people gathered on the hill and sang and danced their thanks to the Great Spirits who had sent the blooms as a sign of their forgiveness . |
| 12 | That is what insurance companies does anyway , it discriminates against different types of people depending on the risk assessed . |
| 13 | Yes we were told they 're going to be trees like that because they 've had a lot of trouble with pigeons roosting in the erm the mature trees and it 's impossible for people to sit on the benches underneath cos of er pigeon mess . |
| 14 | Over 100 people lived on the lot before the fire . |
| 15 | Only five people lived on the island , so I could work alone , and nobody would discover my awful secret . |
| 16 | The total is then distributed among local authorities on the basis of the number of people listed on the Poll Tax register . |
| 17 | A delegation of 38 Saharan tribal elders ( 19 from Layoun under Moroccan control and 19 from Tindouf under Polisario control ) had met in Geneva on June 4 and had broadly agreed that 74,000 people listed on the census rolls drawn up by Spain for the referendum of 1974 would be eligible to vote . |
| 18 | Tug had a sharp , split-second picture of people walking on the track . |
| 19 | He realized they were no different from him : he and they were all people walking on the dusty road which ends in death . |
| 20 | They think the people walking on the street out there are dreaming of the moment when they can become capitalist serfs again . |
| 21 | And people walking on the pavement all it totally and I thought what a cheek . |
| 22 | Local people interviewed on the film spoke of the emptiness of atheism and even those who remain atheists acknowledged that the spreading of the gospel , now allowed in the country , will only do good . |
| 23 | People sleep on the floor or huddle round television sets . |
| 24 | Well what a lot of people say on the course is I know it 's my responsibility , but I always , I do n't always have the time to train because there 's a lot of backlog , there 's a lot of pressure , it 's and we all say to them that training is like a catch twenty two situation . |
| 25 | ‘ We were all joyous at the scenes of people climbing on the Wall but the problem is , how do you make money on this ? ’ said Charles Clough , chief investment strategist at Merrill Lynch . |
| 26 | The idea of this is for all the people to pull on the rope as hard as possible . |
| 27 | It has very much the same facilities as Delta Five , but is single-user rather than allowing several people to work on the same data , and also has a lower limit on the number of records , transaction files , and so on ; nothing that would really present a problem , unless you were trying to use the system for a fairly large system , in which case you should be using Delta Five . |
| 28 | ‘ Now those players are saying , ‘ we are producing the goods ’ — and while there are people knocking on the door , they 've got to open it . |
| 29 | [ He will say later , ‘ If I 'd relaxed the standard there I 'd have had umpteen other people knocking on the door wanting to do precisely the same thing to save on trade effluent charges . ’ ] |
| 30 | No okay because it 's as I was saying usually between sort of round about the middle of the day there 's people knocking on the door all the time so if you can sort of get sort of earlier or later it 's we 're likely to have a y'know half an hour when I can show you to do S P S S on it . |