Example sentences of "people [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professional designers will come out with all sorts of advice but as this is intended for normal people I 'll suggest that you just go with what looks right to you . |
| 2 | If we get first division people I 'll do it a different way to him if I had to end up with second division people and the responsibilities they take on board will very much reflect that and the same surely should happen to the field sales force erm their abilities are reflected in in what sort of activities we give them and by looking at the people we have we then put together a team to most accurately attack whatever we want to do . |
| 3 | I have grown from the people , I have remained in the people , and to the people I shall return . |
| 4 | Yep , yep erm these officers are all trained in , in fire prevention work erm at the Fire Service 's technical college at Morton Marsh , and er they practise those skills they learn there over many years erm I 'm looking back , I mean the time that I spent in training schools and er and in , in the job er I suppose when you total it all up it must be two or three years away from home really , er in courses you know , in my day we went away on fire prevention training classes six months , six months ' course was the , so you went away to the Fire Service college which in those days was at Dorking , a lovely place in Dorking , and you did six months there solid , and then nowadays about thirteen weeks , the courses run about thirteen weeks , and you are constantly fire , fire officers from the ranks of erm probably a Sub Officer , leading fireman in some places , but Sub Officer onwards and particularly Station Officer up to the more senior ranks are away on courses regularly for , it 's really updating people erm new legislation coming in , new techniques coming in , erm which have to be these people have to be updated so they are very well trained , erm more so than most local authority people I would think , fire , fire officers are , erm purely because the job is such a wide range of , of things to deal with . |
| 5 | Although I was sad to say goodbye to Bessie , I was both excited and nervous about the new places I would see , and the new people I would meet . |
| 6 | A few months ago , I was invited to collaborate in a New Age book project , with several people I would have loved to work with . |
| 7 | In fact , there are very few people I would listen to simply because anything technical about the golf swing baffles me . |
| 8 | No , but there 's plenty of things I would like to do , people I 'd like to see , yes , yes . |
| 9 | The , erm , we 've had erm covered an enormous amount of ground erm so erm and the other people I 'd like to thank cos I think we have established an extremely good relationship with the Hertfordshire er and everybody comments throughout the country that what a good relationship Hertfordshire has . |
| 10 | three hundred people I 'd say ! |
| 11 | I mean they 'll do nothing about sex , they 'll just do all about morals , wo n't they , and decent , respectable people I 'd say and biology 's just cold and clinical . |
| 12 | I sat for a while thinking of what I 'd said and of what he 'd told me , and I still could n't believe that any of the people I 'd come to know so well was really a murderer . |
| 13 | I could not accept this terrible punishment , and wrote to all the important people I could think of , asking for mercy for Magwitch . |
| 14 | I go to Chapel every Sunday and I say my prayers , but I 'm not superstitious like some people I could mention — and I do n't believe in dreams ! ’ |
| 15 | It really took the late-Eighties and Nineties before I had people I could relate to ’ |
| 16 | It really took the late Eighties and Nineties before I had people I could relate to . |
| 17 | I bet there are loads of people I could get on with . |
| 18 | ‘ I would like to think my record will suggest to people I could play a bit , ’ said Carrick . |
| 19 | Past all those people I could see the unmistakable giraffe-like back of Vern . |
| 20 | The people I could have done things for … . |
| 21 | And because he was slightly dim , or at least vulnerable and kind and easily led , being one of the few people I could mock and dominate with impunity , we became mates . |
| 22 | I think of people I could introduce him to . |
| 23 | People I should like traced . |
| 24 | ‘ For the first time I began to wonder about the camp and the people I should find inside it . |
| 25 | Even at the cost of revealing the whereabouts of the cave to one of the People I must take this specimen there — I must , so great was my urge , thundering in me like the breakers of an ocean . |
| 26 | will and that did n't please some people I can assure you . |
| 27 | environment with other Scottish people I can do it |
| 28 | Mark : I ca n't say that to the same extent , but where I live at the moment I know a lot of people within five minutes ' walk and there are ten or fifteen gay people I know who live locally ; there are people I can visit without any great effort whatsoever , whom I 'm likely to meet in the shops . |
| 29 | I 'm sure it 's difficult for you to imagine what my life is like out here but one thing is certain and that is that there are very few people I can talk to . |
| 30 | Like most people I can talk about the state of the world , sex and football in one conversation in the pub . |