Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] that they had [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would never punish any child who did n't agree with me that they had done something … |
| 2 | Onlookers admitted to me that they had come simply to see the tragic spectacle of the naked bodies — some of which were badly burned . |
| 3 | It was clear to me that they had spared him in order to groom him for their own uses . |
| 4 | He caught a glimpse of the mast , a cable or two downwind , and it began to dawn on him that they had lost sight of him . |
| 5 | In the manner which had stunned Cecil Roberts and the audience at the Park Lane Hotel , he denounced his opponents , shouting at them that they had turned the election into a thoroughly dirty fight . |
| 6 | David Poole , who came into ballet in Cape Town a few months before John Cranko in 1944 , described his beginnings : how he saw his first ballet performance on a Saturday night at City Hall , spoke to friends there of his desire to dance , and on the Sunday was told by them that they had arranged with Dulcie Howes for him to attend classes at the University Ballet School . |