Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun] that their " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that at times the child seems well able to respond to them reinforces their view that their child is being naughty . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Both sexes like the idea that women pretend , men because it confirms their suspicion that their partners are basically frigid and devious manipulators , women because it gives them a delicious sense of power to think that the delirium which men fondly ascribe to their virile prowess is no more than a hollow civility , like laughing at Grandpa 's jokes . |
| 4 | The Post Office says an independent survey backs their claim that their queues are less than those in banks , building societies or supermarkets . |
| 5 | Very often in therapeutic groups they do claim not to , but in fact er the leader does play a very dominant role er and even when the attention shifts to members of course , the fact that all the other members are watching them means that their reactions and what they say and think and do in a group would have been very much constrained by their actions and expectations o of the other members . |
| 6 | If she had had any sense she would still be in London , planning her next social function with her friends , instead of slinking off to the south of France because she had felt claustrophobic , because she needed to formulate a way of telling her fiancé that their engagement was off . |
| 7 | The parents argued that their action was not racially motivated , but rather reflected their concern that their children should be educated in a school with a prevailing Christian ethos , which they claimed would not be the case at the school designated by the LEA . |
| 8 | Margaret Stanhope saw by the watch that never left his wrist that their unromantic interlude would soon be drawing to a close . |
| 9 | And because all this money was not needed for war , it was available , and extensively used , to show its subjects that their monarchy lived in style and elegance . |