Example sentences of "people who [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Court archives included much material of interest , but the people who consulted them were almost exclusively clerks who needed to establish points for cases : they were not used for history-making . |
2 | Maybe not , but he puts words in the mouths of people who wish they were . |
3 | I think a lot of people are getting too excited about a technology which is which has been dreamed up by people who wish it would happen rather than prove it can happen . |
4 | And the reason why the made marriages were happy ones is because the people who arranged them were mature level-headed people . ’ |
5 | AN election candidate was last night accused of abusing democracy after some of the people who signed his nomination papers said they were not told he was standing for the far-Right British National Party . |
6 | People who bore it came to her in her rare sleeping periods , and she learned from them . |
7 | He , one of these people who allies their own opinions and feelings with the higher authority that they erm |
8 | This was a small group of people who appointed their own chairman and secretary , and whose task was to see that the signs LADIES and GENTLEMEN were posted at all the appropriate places in the many buildings used by the conference . |
9 | Courses vary a great deal in both their length and the number of people who attend them , and it would clearly be unjustified to assume that a single course on one topic was outweighed by , say , five courses on another if the single course involved fifty teachers in a full day 's attendance each week for a term , while each of the five other courses lasted only a couple of hours and catered for half a dozen teachers . |
10 | I object er er yes I would like to , I would like to er second the resolutions , this , there is er , there is er a certainly a great deal of concern within the community both those er who live within reach of , of , of , of car boot sale erm er sites in particular the ones that are regular and also the people who attend them and get ripped off , that we need to do something about er bringing er the er , er at to add , add to law into range of , of the people who of , of people who er er of of people who er sell er of people who sell those goods at these at these functions . |
11 | Secondly , controversially , most of the people who attend our centres receive attendance allowances . |
12 | The Oxenhope Straw Race has a long way to go before it reaches its centenary , but the aims of the people who organise it and take part are the same as those who in the nineteenth century began the hospital sings at Holmfirth and Mapplewell . |
13 | One of the people who advised him to remain in Morocco was the legendary Ardeshir Zahedi , son of the Shah 's prime minister in 1953 , and till recently the Iranian ambassador in Washington . |
14 | A couple of years ago this kind of scenario seemed plausible to thousands of people who committed themselves to self-build co-operatives . |
15 | He was pleasant enough in general , though most people who met him formed the vaguest of ideas that he might be dangerous in some unspecified way . |
16 | People who show their dogs expose them to many new forms of stimuli . |
17 | Besides , living as she now was in a small house on top of two other people , and Dr Neil 's surgery boy , and seeing at close hand the wretched people who frequented his surgery , was giving her insights into the motivations and behaviour of the people around her because she had to consider them , whereas always before , in the past , other people had been compelled to consider her . |
18 | They listened to people who knew nothing about the game , to people who exploited them , people who taught them the wrong things . |
19 | ‘ And they are all about the same age and they are all boys who have never been in trouble with the police , but the people who taught them and their family were not exactly surprised at what happened . ’ |
20 | ‘ I got 500 get well cards and I 'm really grateful to the people who sent them . |
21 | This prescriptive approach has been repeated as recently as October 1988 , when the director of the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools in Northern Ireland said that people who sent their children to integrated schools rather than catholic ones were breaking the law of the church . |
22 | The heroes come across as people who lived their lives to the full and knew how to love and laugh as well as how to fight . |
23 | The people who lived there had to rely on rainwater , which in the summer was often inadequate . |
24 | So there are a lot of people who change their mind . |
25 | whether that means anything to people who live in Bishop 's Stortford but I 've always lived in Chelmsford and people who wore their hat sort of at a flaunty angle on the back of their heads were always seem to wearing their hats in the Hollywood fashion . |
26 | And the self same people who shake their heads and utter these remarks are the ones who will be heading off to the Med or Florida on their holidays next year , doubtless piloted there by someone up front who began his or her career on a little grass strip flying those little aeroplanes that look so flimsy . |
27 | For a later game , give cards out and the children have to find the people who had their number . |
28 | ‘ People who had their money in high-interest accounts are looking for something else to do with it . |
29 | Were they er were they Would they be treated in any d different was say er er people who had their own farms would they |
30 | The people who were devoting their lives to transforming society into an egalitarian paradise could not be expected to live like other people who had nothing better on their minds than scratching a living . |