Example sentences of "people [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In contrast , the nearest most deaf people got to the War was to receive training in rifle practice and to learn how to dig trenches in case the Germans managed to invade . |
| 3 | Now , a lot of people got to the one month happily , the thirty nine , but only fifteen out of these thirty nine made it to six months . |
| 4 | The twelve people got into the little plane , and the plane began to move . |
| 5 | A couple of people got into the lift as he was riding down . |
| 6 | The general concern over the welfare of deaf people led to the formation of more institutes and to centres for the deaf being opened in towns and cities where previously none had existed . |
| 7 | Picture to yourself the furore which they will make in the world when people read on the title-page that they have been composed by a seven-year-old child ; and when the sceptics are challenged to test him , as he already has been , imagine the sensation when he asks someone to write down a minuet or some tune or other and then immediately and without touching the clavier writes in the bass and , if it is wanted , the second violin part … every day God performs fresh miracles through this child . |
| 8 | Only seven people lived through the crash — and all were seriously injured . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | Over 100 people lived on the lot before the fire . |
| 12 | Only five people lived on the island , so I could work alone , and nobody would discover my awful secret . |
| 13 | Only in the late nineteenth century did these contracts generally disappear and instead the land was sold or let and the old people lived off the cash proceeds . |
| 14 | In The last Country Houses , a book which documents the death of the old tradition of hospitality , Clive Aslett records the response of a nouveau riche lady when told that some pleasant people lived near the rural seat her husband had just acquired . |
| 15 | About only 400 people lived within the corporation 's boundaries , and only about 1,500 worked in the area . |
| 16 | Few people lived in the north the whole time and in the south a large proportion of the permanent residents were slaves . |
| 17 | More than 125 people lived in the two blocks of flats , the Press Trust of India reported . |
| 18 | Combining life-histories with the use of personal documents such as letters and diaries can show how ordinary people lived in the past ( Plummer 1982 ) . |
| 19 | Organic remains provide much evidence as to how people lived in the past . |
| 20 | How many people lived in the house ? |
| 21 | Three people lived in the house — a beautiful girl , an old man , and a young man . |
| 22 | Some 500,000,000 people lived in the 42 LDCs ( 110,000,000 of them in Bangladesh ) , where population growth averaged 2.6 per cent . |
| 23 | As in most provincial towns of the time , the wealthiest families lived in the central area and the poorest people lived in the thickly-populated outskirts . |
| 24 | In 1801 a mere twenty-five people lived in the four houses that comprised the settlement of Middlesborough and thirty years later the population stood at only 154 . |
| 25 | By 1841 , when 1,079 people lived in the village , 107 men and boys and just 3 females worked at the trade . |
| 26 | Whatever the position in remoter times , when most people lived in the country , the urbanisation of England in the nineteenth century meant , among other things , that farmland adjacent to what were once small towns became the target of urban development . |
| 27 | On May 10th , 38 people tottered to the top , took a quick look at the view and scrambled down again . |
| 28 | All through the hot week people crept along the streets , hugging the edge of shade that buildings provided , half a foot and one side of an arm at least out of the burning sun , though still sweating . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |