Example sentences of "[verb] that they [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , we do n't know that they gave the police the same alibi , do we ? ’ |
| 2 | The Staufer maintained that they accepted the magisterial primacy of the Roman Church — the pope 's power to approve and anoint the emperor — but they challenged the jurisdictional primacy , namely the pope 's claim to appoint the emperor . |
| 3 | He was interested to find that they shared the same distrust , perhaps the same revulsion . |
| 4 | Studies on savants who can tell you the day of the week on which you were born found that they followed the rules of a calendar to work out the dates . |
| 5 | A review of American schemes carried out in 1990 by the General Accounting Office found that they reduced the total amount of litter by 10–20% by weight and 40–60% by volume . |
| 6 | When R. Hoy put these hybrid females on a Y-maze he found that they preferred the songs of hybrid males to those of either parental species . |
| 7 | Of particular interest in the light of Professor Shorter 's remarks , is the finding that many women in the survey who were not raped did not consider that they had the right to refuse sex with their husbands . |
| 8 | So why did they think that they had the er means to do it in nineteen forty seven ? |
| 9 | Oh it is true , but it did , it did do it , but that was the other day and I did n't think that they had the same effect , no , well perhaps so , mind you I mean we have done a lot of walking , have n't we ? |
| 10 | Despite the length of one or two of the contributions of Labour Members , I do not think that they matched the significance of other speeches . |
| 11 | One , to protect the members ' you know , interests in each department to see that they got the , a , a time limit you know , to go onto the scheme , that the consultation took place . |
| 12 | It will now be more difficult for anyone to claim that they misunderstood the law , as the Management Regulations — in giving more detail — make much clearer what is required . |
| 13 | All HLA-B35 individuals were typed by the previously described PCR method to confirm that they had the B3501 rather than the B3502 or B3503 subtypes : these latter subtypes are not amplified by the primers used . |
| 14 | In a communiqué broadcast on Jan. 17 the leaders of the Medellín and Cali drug cartels , under their assumed name of the " Extraditables " , announced that they accepted the " victory " of the government of President Barco in the five month " war " waged between them [ see p. 36844 ; 36889-90 ; 37119 ] and would end their hostilities , release their hostages , cease drug shipments and surrender weapons and explosives , in return for constitutional and legal guarantees which would respect their rights and allow them to return to their families and communities . |
| 15 | You 'll have heard that they lifted the army off the beaches at Dunkirk . |
| 16 | Tom Mann believed that they made the best pickets of all . |
| 17 | " In my Opinion there can be no doubt that the chief underlying cause of the serious and widespread unrest lies in the fact that the strikers believed that they had the sympathy of the government " . |
| 18 | The jury believed that they used the tools necessary to keep him under control . |
| 19 | Some of them added that they thought the TBC paid too little attention to the speeches of politicians : this was to be a frequent complaint . |
| 20 | Bob Shepton says that they sailed the atlantic and have been up to greenland so this was what was left to do … |
| 21 | He says that they considered the proposals contained too many uncertanties . |
| 22 | Ohio-valley dwellers of this time were farmers , and pollen tests show that they grew the crop . |
| 23 | Maria was forced to begin believing that they represented the truth on the Thursday when , having first steeled herself to sound casual , she mentioned to Giles Estwick that Luke did n't seem to be around any longer . |
| 24 | Intense negotiations continued , with the generators believing that they had the upper hand because of the Government 's tight timetable and their insistence that they should not have to sign contracts before seeing the white paper . |
| 25 | It was felt that they enjoyed the support of both Israel and Jordan , neither of which welcomed a growth in the economic power of an increasingly politicized peasantry . |
| 26 | The roars of laughter told that they knew the sergeant was right to suspect moonlighting ; something which is quite common to the lower ranks of the RUC because many have a background as skilled tradespeople . |
| 27 | In the following year a Sussex doctor Gideon Mantell ( 1790–1852 ) found some large fossilized teeth in a pile of rocks intended for road-mending and noted that they resembled the teeth of the modern iguana . |
| 28 | Welcoming Bush 's proposals on Sept. 28 as " a decision of historic dimensions " , the German Chancellor Helmut Kohl noted that they implied the removal of all short-range missiles from Germany . |
| 29 | When the first parental rumblings voicing criticism of a hitherto unknown junior school in Islington , North London , became public , few watchers of the educational scene imagined that they marked the beginning of a long-running drama which would fill many column inches in the daily press as well as provide material for a TV documentary . |
| 30 | But looked at a er at any ordinance survey map , they 'd have seen that they got the track plan wrong . |