Example sentences of "people [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | EVERYWHERE YOU GO , PEOPLE JUDGE YOU BY THE WAY YOU LOOK |
2 | it was the cream of the milk , well you used to like it , well sort of , some people make it with water , that 's why I made it all milk , are you going to try it again with water ? and just a drop of milk on top |
3 | Will you restrict what 's , how , how are you collecting , people bring it to you , or will you actually |
4 | Many people borrow it for a day from a sympathetic relative . |
5 | I think the mother and child love is n't always pleasant and I think that 's quite worrying to some mother 's if they ca n't love their child in the way that people expect them to . |
6 | ‘ Everywhere I go people expect me to be the happy person they see on TV . |
7 | Yes you think it 's people expect it to be quick do n't they ? |
8 | Did people expect it to be liquified and work on it until it happened , or was it just an accidental discovery ? |
9 | It 's nice that people say it to you unprompted . |
10 | Gary said : ‘ It 's obvious that people want him in the England team . ’ |
11 | People want me to be funny all the time . |
12 | Well actually most people have most people want them for souvenirs . |
13 | If you ever get to be a concert violinist , which I personally doubt , you 'll always wonder if people want you on the platform because of your looks or because you 're any good . ’ |
14 | ‘ You 'll never know if people want you for your looks or for yourself . |
15 | So we get involved quite a lot in looking at teaching in various parts of the university where people want us to , very often involving the students as well as the other teachers in looking at a particular course and seeing if there are ways in which perhaps it might be taught differently or in a way that worked better . |
16 | So if people want it to be there it should be there , no question . |
17 | Lots of people want it to , er suggest that it ought to be holiday but |
18 | On the one hand there are those who argue , in a fairly simplistic way , that if military expenditure is high , it must be because the people want it to be so . |
19 | The whole process is inescapable precisely because more and more people want it to be so . |
20 | I mean , some people want it for income , so if they want that sort of fifteen hundred pounds coming in , and they both want access to it , I 'm quite happy to pay it into a joint account , providing it does n't actually give them a tax problem , in |
21 | You know , particularly , you know the female may have only a state pension you know the part state pension nothing else coming in , and a lot of these accounts are still net , not gross , so the revenue have got money to give away , and they 're quite happy to do that providi providing that people tap them on the shoulder . |
22 | These so-called ‘ comfort foods ’ may relieve stress because people associate them with pleasant feelings they had when fed these foods as a child . |
23 | People associate them with community spirit and sunshine , the days when " we had nothing , but were happy " . |
24 | If people associate you with the ‘ Carry On ’ films , they do n't think of you as anything else . |
25 | So many people ply me with drinks in the D and F these days that I tend to remember them as I saw them , in a blur . |
26 | I realized why people confuse them with hearses . |
27 | And the electricity people charge you for kilowatt hours . |
28 | People stop me in the street , badger me |
29 | I put it on , I 've suggested people put it on the Christmas list , I think it would be a good Christmas present |
30 | I never used it in the like people put it in the till . |