Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] that their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She learned with sadness in her heart that their recent one night of love had been after he had met a young Vietnamese man . |
| 2 | They get it into their heads that their fund-raising dinner for Hypothermic Pensioners In High Rise Blocks In Portsmouth will fall apart at the seams if Dillie Keane is n't there . |
| 3 | Against that background , does the Prime Minister still dare to say to those people and their families that their prolonged misery is a price well worth paying ? |
| 4 | If they should have been given even more ‘ porridge ’ , then their belief that their own status made them beyond the rule of law was insufficiently punished . |
| 5 | — their trust that their little boy will recover from the quartan fever . |
| 6 | During the terrible retreat from Mons in late August , certain officers wrote home of their impression that their foot-sore infantry had been accompanied one night by a mysterious force of cavalry , of which no trace could be found next day . |
| 7 | ‘ At that point Prince Philip told his wife that their eldest son was unsuitable to become monarch in the foreseeable future — if ever , ’ says a senior royal insider . ’ |
| 8 | Lehmann 's interest in the neo-romantic painters rested on his belief that their lyrical and imaginative spirit counteracted the materialism and pseudo-sciences of the day . |
| 9 | Her father had complained to the Water Board every year for the last fifteen of his life that their damned backwashing was washing away his river bank . |
| 10 | Margaret Stanhope saw by the watch that never left his wrist that their unromantic interlude would soon be drawing to a close . |
| 11 | That is probably the worst one day figure which happened , as I say , combination of war and the snow , when the shops were pretty well closed off , and yes we certainly saw figures that , on a day for day basis to last year , they were seventy five per cent down , but cumulative I mean the position 's much better than that erm nowhere near that sort of figure , and erm we are very confident that the summer market for overseas holidays will recover steadily and we 'd be very surprised if , by the end of September , we 're more than five or six per cent down on summer holiday bookings compared to last year , and we 're confident enough to have brought back our campaigns and our advertising starts this week , and we 've even been confident enough to announce to our staff that their annual salary review will take place on the first of April as scheduled . |