Example sentences of "most people [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Now in Britain most people travel many kilometres between their homes and their work , often from one town to another . |
| 32 | Not only do most people find this tricky but you run the risk of forgetting how far down the list you have travelled . |
| 33 | They 're very central , no more than a five minute walk from the beach , although most people spend most of the day around the large pool , surrounded by a sun terrace which looks onto the pretty gardens . |
| 34 | Most people find such diagrams much easier to understand than paragraphs of explanatory prose but the flexibility itself can lead to the difficulties illustrated in Fig. 1.22 . |
| 35 | Most people run this stretch but we maintain our position by paddling . |
| 36 | Existing policies keep most people occupied most of the time . |
| 37 | I have heard many other definitions ( not all of them polite ) , but most people agree that advancement of some sort features in their long-term plans for the future . |
| 38 | ‘ The programme concentrates mainly on Hollywood movies , because they 're the ones most people see most of the time , ’ Wood says . |
| 39 | Freud was a Hobbesian thinker , erm , in the sense that the id , certainly was egoistic , anti-social and everything that Thomas Hobbes said about human nature , er , could apply to the id , that 's perfectly true , and most people see this , and it 's er it , it 's a commonplace , particularly in the social science writing on Freud . |
| 40 | Most most people play this er with a fairly conventional croquet stroke because the black ball 's the blue ball 's gon na go twice the distance of the red . |
| 41 | And yet most people give little thought to their use of the spoken word . |
| 42 | Most people want many sons because they carry on the family line and that means our clan can claim more land . |
| 43 | And most people think that 's what a contract is . |
| 44 | If you do n't tell anybody nobody 's going to react to that until it starts to annoy them , because most people think that everybody else is going to do something about it . |