Example sentences of "people [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | People aroused by the possibilities of social power will seek it more consistently than those who are not aroused by power . |
| 2 | For as long as ordinary people remain on the Island , this pub will not change . |
| 3 | Opus declined to say how many people remain with the company or how many boxes it actually put in the field . |
| 4 | When they reach retirement age , most people qualify for the basic pension , which is normally uprated once a year to keep in line with price rises . |
| 5 | Some people change for the better . |
| 6 | This suggests that you should sit at arms length from your monitor and should n't site desks so that people sit near the back of monitors . |
| 7 | Against this background of craters and devastated buildings people sit in the sun at cafes open again for a town which has nothing else to do but drink coffee and wait for the future . |
| 8 | Why do many people stay on the farms , with the result that this migration has been less than normal for the UK ? |
| 9 | The health authorities declared a fresh state of " red alert " on Dec. 28 when further cases of cholera were discovered in three northern provinces bordering Bolivia and Paraguay , although it was reported that none of the 44 people diagnosed in the space of five days had died [ for outbreak in early 1992 see p. 38761 ] . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Building the steps into the patio create a stairwell , so provision has to be made to prevent people stepping over the side and into the stairwell accidentally . |
| 12 | People singing with the the group . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In this context , it is likely that changes in the nature of marital relations resulting from the increasingly private nature of family life , together with an increasing tendency by working people to plan for the future , were the most important variables explaining the decrease in working class fertility during the inter-war years , at a time when the employed working man enjoyed a more regular and higher real wage than ever before . |
| 15 | BECAUSE VIEW FROM IS A NEW RANGE OF SPORTSWEAR FOR PEOPLE REARED ON THE HEROICS OF LYNN DAVIES , MARY RAND AND DAVID HEMERY . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Most hospitals retain records relevant to deceased people received into the mortuary , together with the numbers of post-mortem examinations , and any infectious conditions found subsequently . |
| 19 | Mortality rates , however , are a very weak proxy of the benefit people received from the use of medical services . |
| 20 | He emphasised that people distinguished between the ex-government and the King . |
| 21 | It is usually a part-time appointment , often held by people distinguished in the world outside university , such as lawyers and business people . |
| 22 | Every inch looks well used , whether by a girl foraging grass for oxen or by people resting at the side of the road . |
| 23 | Prosecuting uneducated deaf people with no speech , and accepting what they said in their defence in those days was however a different matter altogether from allowing the same people to go into the witness box and testify against other people . |
| 24 | Not to talk about their loss but to have people to go to the pub , cinema , even on holiday with . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But it 's always a , a joy for blind people to go to the theatre |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Julia was half convinced that she should tell the young people to go to the cinema and dances again but she consulted Pat . |