Example sentences of "people [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.

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1 I think one of the most valuable points that emerged from the Felixstowe experience , as far as I was concerned anyway was the fact that with all those people there when we heard their views , erm , it was quite apparent that it was n't the case of local people opposing what the County Council traffic people propose to do , many there were many different and varying interests there and , and we , we could , we can then basically come to a conclusion which satisfied , satisfied I hope most of them , but , we , we , at that meeting among the local people some supporters with some of our road safety and some were very much against them , others were neutral , but it was n't just a question of erm a , a united opposition of what we proposed to do er , and this was very valuable .
2 In spite of the strangeness of Eliot 's behaviour , however , few people begrudged him the happiness which in personal relations he had never experienced before : " He obviously needed to have a happy marriage , " Valerie Eliot said on a later occasion , " He could n't die until he had had it " .
3 PEOPLE send me the funniest letters .
4 Q. Why do some people do everything the food experts tell them and still have high cholesterol levels ?
5 Summers says so , but he has n't seen the pictures , and there are always problems with stories that emphasise the power of Meyer Lansky ; he became a kind of bogeyman , credited with old crimes to boost a reputation which helped people do what the Mob wanted .
6 They might have fared more comfortably had they sailed a longer journey — from Kingsburgh up to Waternish point , a journey which would then have taken them directly down into Loch Dunvegan — although local people told me the weather here can come up very quickly , and perhaps Allan Macdonald 's boat was not adequately large .
7 ‘ I used to play there as a boy , and people told us the tunnels went all the way to Cuchulain 's castle .
8 Few people give themselves the time to think clearly about their own futures .
9 ‘ It 's always been difficult to let people see what the collective living is about ’ , says one member of the site community .
10 The zebra was released by people calling themselves the Animal Liberation Front
11 People know what the boundaries are ; they know where they should act on their own and where not .
12 That makes it even more important for the trades council rank and file to be represented at the T U C Congress , so people know what the reality is .
13 Police investigating the murder of John Stanley , who was fourteen and from Moss side in Manchester , say that some people know who the killer is , but are too frightened to speak out .
14 That 's why we aim to empower young people to give them the maximum choice to build their own success .
15 When I was put in charge of the start-up at Fawley at the ripe old age of twenty-nine most of my team were people who were twenty years older than I was and being on shift with a lot of operating people taught me the problems and the realisation that I could learn a hell of a lot from them — the realisation that the chap on the shop floor usually knows far more about what 's going on than management does .
16 " A Great Russian " put out a flysheet in St Petersburg in July 1861 which argued that " The educated classes must take the conduct of affairs out of the hands of the incapable government and into their own " ; otherwise , " patriots will be compelled to call upon the people to do what the educated classes refuse to do " .
17 Now that this good party of concerted artistes is safely ensconced in the vessel that is to be its forward conducting medium , let all good-thinking people wish it the Speed of God and safe from the influence of diverse foreign bodies that lurk in animated suspension in this murky putrescence of Thames .
18 People called it the Primavera della patria , the Rebirth of the Country .
19 With the roots came dreams of the creation of liberated zones , embracing the generation briefly flirting with peace , the new libertarian-oriented politicos , and , crucially , people doing what the period was supposed to be about , having a good time .
20 Some people misunderstand what the rationality of faith means .
21 But plenty of people thought it the height of irresponsibility to allocate £11 million to having a fling .
22 Campsfield will house 200 people making it the biggest detention centre for immigrants in the country .
23 Now a lot of people leave them the bonuses in there to accrue for tax or whatever , new car or holidays .
24 I thought , I mean I , the fire people gave it the all clear .
25 Counting numbers those are the numbers you use for counting things with like three or six or most people call them the normal numbers .
26 People call them the Gharrgoyles .
27 Some people call it the ‘ Artisan Mannerism ’ style .
28 Some people call it The Young Americans Tour , others call it the Black Show because it was David as an R&B singer .
29 Some people call it the nook but you just sat on the jam stones .
30 But very often I think tabloid journalism is interesting in terms of language because it 's very punchy it 's succinct because i i in some of our terms you might find people into a three minute reader and a thirty minute reader because in attention span and intellectual capacity are quite different but to actually condense something into meaningful short bursts , even if they are politically biased actually requires a certain amount of skill I would suspect the clarity index which I ca n't find is the process that I mentioned the other night where you take erm some people call it the fog index a correct me if I 'm wrong in my figures , but I think it 's a piece of something like two hundred or three hundred words you count the number of suc erm colons and full stops or is it only full stops ?
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