Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [that] they " in BNC.

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1 Yet they had this sort of erm this sort of feeling about them that they created themselves , that they were sort of cock of the rock , within a shipyard .
2 ‘ They 'll be terrified of hearing you say something about them that they ca n't bear . ’
3 They all speak excellent English and going on last year , are so pleased to be in Britain and so appreciative of everything arranged for them that they make an easy and rewarding group to entertain .
4 We read that the apostles in Jerusalem sent Peter and John down to them and ‘ when they arrived , they prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit , because the Holy Spirit had not yet come upon any of them ; they had simply been baptised into the name of the Lord Jesus .
5 If you embark on using someone as your detective who is immensely superior to yourself either intellectually or in the social scale ( and by that I do not mean any conventional listing of dukes , earls , barons and honourables ) you will be heading for trouble when you try to have the sort of insights for them that they would naturally have .
6 He 's he 's out yes and there are two or three in which have erm you know they 're sorry that they 've gone back and er we feel sorry sort of for them that they 've dropped into and a lot of our young lads have got mortgages and all that but there are some gone back er they need not people erm they 'd finished rearing their families and everything .
7 Who said of whom that they had ‘ stolen the sky and put up a sham sun ’ ?
8 As she said goodnight to them in turn she managed by some technique of charm or pure personality to convey to each of them that they were important to her in their own light .
9 Realizing the extent of the betrayal , it was clear to both of them that they could not hang around so close to the target area hoping for survivors .
10 ( Matthew says of them that they will sit on the twelve thrones of Israel , judging the twelve tribes . )
11 those who have accepted the teachers ' view of them that they are thick and who see no point in pursuing any further academic work because of their acknowledged inability , and
12 It has become so much a part of them that they are often unaware of its existence .
13 Every one of them that they were gon na do next year .
14 It was terrifying to think that someone could feel such hatred towards you that they could do something like this .
15 For this reason , archaeologists bear a heavy responsibility to make comprehensive records of everything that they find and observe , because no one else will ever have another chance to do so .
16 Many people are so frightened of him that they are afraid to say his name . ’
17 Its classical central waiting-room had a touch of the first Euston about it , eighty years removed , and South Australian railways were so proud of it that they promptly published a booklet providing statistics of its dimensions , quantities of building materials used , and so on .
18 Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it .
19 I would like certainly to see schemes starting where people can be put into worthwhile jobs , where people can start jobs knowing at the end of it that they are not going to be thrown onto the dole queue again .
20 I have on occasion told students that they 're doing an arts subject , and tried to encourage them to think in those terms , because if they 're constantly thinking of the job at the end of it , then I do n't think they 're getting the most out of it that they can do … .
21 It would be interesting to hear just how much of the programme that I have outlined the Government support , those aspects of it that they do not , and why .
22 They do a different kind of work , they 've traditionally done considerably responsible work within Oxford City 's Environmental Health Department , so there is n't a suggestion on the part of any of us that they are somehow lesser beings , because that is not the case at all .
23 Most people , if they can play something that sounds like something that they 've heard on a record , are in danger of falling into the trap of saying , ‘ A-ha !
24 ‘ This is like something that they 've never seen .
25 That sounds like something that they might have at the end of term or something done by an adult working in a steelworks .
26 Locals call it ‘ The Wall ’ because so many people like it that they never venture outside it till it 's time to go home .
27 However even these workers opt for something that they call ‘ interactionism ’ , in which there is a clearly modular , autonomous element which can be studied in isolation from the knowledge systems .
28 A religious war is often said to be very bitter because the two sides are fighting for something that they both feel is very important .
29 First the drummers come on — I may say that no women are allowed to take part in this ritual and the ladies here will perhaps agree with me that they are fortunate in that omission .
30 I would never punish any child who did n't agree with me that they had done something …
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