Example sentences of "i that they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two Officers shook hands , then they both went into the caravan after informing me that they would be attending a meeting for the next two hours . |
| 2 | Women from orthodox families told me that they were not allowed to wear them . |
| 3 | It 's about the third or fourth ti me that they have seen it — the same is probably true for most of the videos on the camp . |
| 4 | I took each upon my knee and told them that Mamma is gone to Heaven to God Almighty , and asked them both to promise me that they would try to be good children and follow their mother to that happy place … ‘ |
| 5 | Although the ministers were too polite to commit themselves , even when I pressed them on this point , it was clear to me that they felt they , and their church , had been used . |
| 6 | When I looked more closely , the ropes , winches and heaps of nylon netting showed me that they were superior fishing vessels . |
| 7 | I did not run into a lot of people who told me that they had been unexpectedly impressed by Mr Kinnock or unimpressed by Mr Major . |
| 8 | Do not tell me that they are old ideas . |
| 9 | Martin Martin notes that on a small rocky island to the south of Skye there is ‘ a great quantity of scurvey-grass , of an extraordinary size , and very thick ; the natives eat it frequently , as well boiled as raw : two of them told me that they happened to be confined there for the space of thirty hours , by a contrary wind ; and being without victuals , fell to eating this scurvey-grass , and finding it of a sweet taste , far different from the land scurvey-grass , they ate a large basketful of it , which did abundantly satisfy their appetites until their return home ’ . |
| 10 | One of their men boasted to me that they intend killing the ministers . |
| 11 | At first , it became obvious to me that they were not interested in seeing someone else 's approach . |
| 12 | The extreme condition of this is for someone to tell me that they loved me — few ever did — or to thank me . |
| 13 | But managers told me that they had learned from the experience . |
| 14 | There were seven of them , and it was a source of perpetual wonder to me that they 'd ever learned to speak their own languages , never mind anyone else 's . |
| 15 | It seems to me that they are describing at first hand a world made up of physical materials similar to those which we can see and touch , with an invisible ( to most of us ) non-material life force much like the ether superimposed on it and within it . |
| 16 | It seems to me that they now resent the presence of the other fish . |
| 17 | That was about 2 months ago and I have received only one reply , to tell me that they could n't help me . |
| 18 | ‘ Somebody told me that they saw the Bad Seeds recently and the show was being recorded , and that Blixa had had his volume knob turned down the whole time ! |
| 19 | Recently I was in Glasgow playing a show and someone remarked to me that they would like to see something written in my column about sevenths . |
| 20 | ‘ Clients tell me that they are not worried about their property as long as their pets are all right , ’ says William Lewis , managing director of Home & Pet Care . |
| 21 | But although the schizoid suicide and the anorexic both deny the reality of death , it seems to me that they do so for different reasons and in different ways . |
| 22 | ‘ They will have a point to prove to me that they should have been on the tour . |
| 23 | Many students told me that they only joined the League because it was the correct thing to do at middle school and at university they maintained their membership for the social functions the League organised , such as outings and dances . |
| 24 | One student told me that they were watching and waiting . |
| 25 | ‘ Someone will say : ‘ Oh , someone told me that they take drugs at that party . ’ |
| 26 | Onlookers admitted to me that they had come simply to see the tragic spectacle of the naked bodies — some of which were badly burned . |
| 27 | To a young doctor like myself , these were my ‘ valuables ’ — the Zeiss Ikon microscope in the scuffed leather case , its precious lenses protected from dust by silk covers ; the glass-lidded box of stainless-steel instruments — retractors , forceps , hooks , scissors and needles ; my much-thumbed copy of that heavy-going but essential tome , Gray 's Anatomy ; manuals of pharmacology and pharmacy ; Belding 's Textbook of Clinical Parasitology and Strong 's Prevention and Treatment of Tropical Diseases , both of which I 'd bought at the last minute in the hope that the young man in John Bell & Croyden in Wigmore Street was right when he assured me that they provided ‘ the answers to all tropical problems ’ ; and some bound volumes of the British Medical Journal which I had picked up cheap in Charing Cross Road . |
| 28 | And it surprises me that they took him into the Force , 'cos he 's made no secret of it an' you know yourself how they 're thought about . ’ |
| 29 | When the greetings and exclamations were over , they told me that they had been staying on Mull for a few days , and had just arrived on Moila , and were putting up at the post office with Mrs McDougall . |
| 30 | In 1959 I started to take an interest in flight data recorders and it appeared to me that they ought to be fitted to large public transport aircraft as a legal requirement . |