Example sentences of "people [prep] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For , she thinks , if privileged spoiled people like her ca n't get off their backsides and put their money where their mouth is … |
| 2 | People like her should live near the shops . ’ |
| 3 | he said impatiently to Burt , describing the impossibility of dealing with such turncoats , ‘ they were determined that people like me should never comc into our own . |
| 4 | Was that meant to be that people like me should be doing spot checks , Richard should tell people like me to do spot checks or Richard was going to do spot checks ? |
| 5 | Home home counties people like me could go anywhere . |
| 6 | In contrast to this condoned and systematic brutality , rugby 's ‘ image problem ’ , in Mr Lieberman 's analysis , stems from its association with ‘ beer parties ’ , which are frowned upon by the editor of Sports Illustrated , who is dismissive of rugby in a way which I find offensive ( I wonder if he 's aware , for instance , that the US Womens ' team recently won a world title ? ) , and attempting to placate people like him would be buying into a value system which is completely alien to the game . |
| 7 | Then I 'm off to see Alexander O'Neal — people like him would never travel to Australia . |
| 8 | ‘ Steve Cram and people like him should be there . |
| 9 | When they were asked about any credit arrangements which they knew people like them could use to buy things , these were the proportions which named each of the following : |
| 10 | D' you think I 'm well off , is that why I live in this flat , on this estate where no one talks to you because they 're afraid and people like you can come bursting in any hour of the day or night because the place is so badly built the locks do n't fit the doors anyway . |
| 11 | ‘ People like you should n't be allowed anywhere near the mountains , and especially not in winter , ’ he said with sudden savagery . |
| 12 | Napier have said that once they get this course up and running there 's absolutely no reason why experienced people like us ca n't dip in and out for a one off |
| 13 | But listening to you make that case it 's very similar to reading the great debate on franchise reform in this House in the last century , when people said we should be included and that people like us should be able to have the vote and put people into Parliament , it 's I mean it was just that you were you were making that plea about pro that the Board should be representative as being like the group who are benefiting . |
| 14 | Nobody knows , precisely enough to be of scientific or medical use , how much radiation was released into the air , how far it spread , and what the original doses received by people underneath it might have been . |
| 15 | The safety of the people in them will thus depend mainly on the forbearance of Serbs . |
| 16 | This document put forward the now stereotypical view that a population with a decreasing number of young people in it would be unprogressive and less vigorous than other nations . |
| 17 | The latter is a recognized field of work in its own right and some people in it might be surprised to find themselves called public relations operators , but the speciality derives from public relations and the counselling , reconciliatory and persuasive nature of the work comfortably fits it within the broader spectrum of public relations practice . |
| 18 | In the past , the Americans opposed the idea of a Palestinian state : there was not enough room , they said ; and , given independence , the people in it might break their promise to be nice to Israel . |
| 19 | It was a cold fossil ; the people in it could have been strangers . |
| 20 | If we work as well together in 1993 as we did in ‘ 92 Pest Control and the people in it will continue to prosper and this coming year will be another success story . |
| 21 | But the erm the other thing about it is if you have a hundred people in it can be so also be a good atmosphere , you know ? |
| 22 | Management in particular is not about the preservation of the status quo , it is about maintaining the highest rate of change that the organization and the people within it can stand . |
| 23 | The patient 's attitude to you and other people around him can change dramatically because of his stroke or head injury . |