Example sentences of "people [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the one hand , the local situation and knowledge about it encouraged some people to retire at the same time as they were made redundant . |
| 2 | Every inch looks well used , whether by a girl foraging grass for oxen or by people resting at the side of the road . |
| 3 | There are people to see at the Embassy , a number of them friends of mine . |
| 4 | In the middle of the crowd — people arriving , people leaving , lost children , tannoy announcements , people queueing at the cashiers ' grilles , checking the airport shops , lugging their cases into the restaurants … in the middle of all that , Culley looked for someone special . |
| 5 | The first is , at best , a ‘ trade union consciousness ’ or a ‘ subordinate value system ’ , in which people placed at the bottom of the social system recognize they are exploited but seek only to improve their position within it . |
| 6 | Security forces surrounded the area and ordered the 3,000 people gathered at the church to leave . |
| 7 | First official event took place during the early afternoon of April 25 , when a large number of people gathered at the memorial site dedicated to the RAF and Allied aircrew . |
| 8 | They visited all the factories and shops they could squeeze into their brief , allotted time and the highlight of their visit was a Silver Anniversary Ball when 700 people gathered at the leisure centre near Deeside , Queensferry . |
| 9 | ‘ On what list ? ’ blurted Karen , but Jessica pulled her roughly by the arm , towards the knot of people gathered at the square steel entrance to the boat . |
| 10 | There were disturbances in Drury Lane on 10 June 1695 , when a number of people gathered at the Dog Tavern to celebrate the birthday of the Prince of Wales . |
| 11 | This time around , most of the crowd stayed for the full set yet the number of people gathered at The Arena told its own story of one band 's fall from grace . |
| 12 | Another intriguing question is whether people congregated at the Cocks because it was a crossroads or because a public house there provided warmth . |
| 13 | Many medieval farms in Wales consisted of only one main building , the so called ‘ longhouse ’ : farm animals were kept at one end of the house and the people lived at the other . |
| 14 | The the the the so called better off people lived at the top half , and the the the poorer type of people or the poorer class of property was on the bottom half , oddly enough and er |
| 15 | Croatian President Franjo Tudjman made his name in the 1960s as a maverick historian who charged that only 30,000 people perished at the hands of the Ustashe fascists . |
| 16 | Well , I 'm not sure that 's correct , but anyway Mill thinks that these ideas local participation of jury service are ways of getting people involved at the highest practical level of participation . |
| 17 | At the door of the Registrar 's office was a long line of people ending at the desk where the Officer 's clerk sat drinking tea and lording it over the supplicants . |
| 18 | I do n't think it should become too academic , it should be whatever people want at the grassroots level , we have a couple of thousand years of patriarchy behind us and we 're not going to change things overnight . |
| 19 | People knocking at the door was a very unusual event in this household . |
| 20 | Neglect of the educational needs of people starts at the very beginning . |
| 21 | By Oct. 17 rioting had broken out as people protested at the authorities ' slow response . |
| 22 | But Earls Court only holds 20,000 and Maine Road football stadium had a capacity of 50,000 , so people looking at the crowds at Manchester always saw one empty or thinly populated stand . |
| 23 | The coat felt insufferably hot , she thought she had seen people looking at the coat with amusement , but there was nothing she could do . |
| 24 | Er we have looked to supplement national e information by our local knowledge specifically I might instance one er where we have made a survey of the institutions which is one source of er possible difference between er people looking at the situation locally and those from further afield . |
| 25 | I do n't normally sort of insist on people looking at the , the biographical background for the , but it 's crucial with Donne for you to pick up on a lot of the |
| 26 | On July 19 , a total of 19 people sheltering at the Czechoslovak embassy surrendered to the authorities . |
| 27 | At her parents home in Parkgate , The Grange , she said : ‘ I do n't intend to start smoking and I do n't like being in the company of people who smoke , especially when we are on holiday abroad and people smoke at the table . ’ |
| 28 | When the alternative seemed to be squabbles and point-scoring , many of these people decided at the last minute to give John Major the benefit of the doubt . |
| 29 | mass forms of musical practice which are based on the musical activity of many people interacting at the same time and in the same way — forms which structure bodily movements and processes , and which enable bodily experience to become an aesthetically mediated pleasure ( ibid : 228 ) . |
| 30 | Italy 's air force was told yesterday that unless it bombed fast moving lava flows pouring from Mount Etna to divert their course , the 6,500 people living at the foot of Europe 's highest volcano could face destruction . |