Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] that [vb past] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he turned to look at her with some compassion , she walked the few steps that kept them apart and , staring at him with desperate eyes , insisted , ‘ That woman in the docks … it was her , was n't it ? |
| 2 | Kypov shouted at him across the few metres that separated them , and the breath spouted white from the Major 's mouth . |
| 3 | It was one of the magnetic forces that drew them overseas , and led them to disappointment quite as often as to wealth . |
| 4 | Moreover , users had access to files or documents held by social services that concerned them as individuals . |
| 5 | Eagleton 's Althusserian phase of the mid-1970s was strongly attacked by a Marxist academic , Kiernan Ryan , who has since taken issue with another Marxist , Alan Sinfield , on the extent to which the great literary works of the past can transcend the reactionary ideologies that produced them . |
| 6 | Alongside the development of poor law hospitals many voluntary hospitals , assisted by charitable funds that enabled them to provide cheap or free services to the poor , were founded or grew in strength from their earlier origins . |
| 7 | Yet once children were taken into care , and especially if this was by a compulsory route , parents frequently felt ignored and excluded , and there was evidence that they were often left to cope alone with the practical and psychological barriers that divided them from their children . |
| 8 | But it was the latter who paved the way for the evolution of vestigial limbs that enabled them to crawl onto the land . |
| 9 | A profound historical amnesia has come to settle around the Teds whereby rock-and-roll outrages of the past , together with the magnified excitements that accompanied them , have been smuggled out of sight . |
| 10 | Nowadays , of course , we understand that it was this way of talking about ethical abstractions that made them seem so mysterious . |
| 11 | He knows them for folly , and has no patience with the little , grudging , timorous minds that made them . ’ |
| 12 | The high proportion of royalists looks embarrassing not only for Merton 's thesis but for variants of it which have claimed that it was the political radicalism ( not the puritanism ) of the parliamentary radicals that made them receptive to revolutionary science . |
| 13 | They were impressed by her intelligent appreciation of political matters and took to consulting her on political problems that confronted them at work . |
| 14 | In an upstairs bedroom — the kidnappers tended to avoid the downstairs rooms during daylight hours , despite the thick net curtains that screened them — the South African was seated at a table brought up there for the purpose . |
| 15 | In the Janacek second string quartet Intimate Letters that followed they really cracked the idiom , playing with a perceptive feel for the uniquely arhythmic phrasing that echoes that of the Czech language . |
| 16 | Striding as quickly as he could whilst avoiding drawing attention to himself , Sergeant Bird covered the hundred and fifty yards that separated them , and stood close behind a sharp-featured elderly lady who had just placed her shopping bag on the pavement next to the telephone box in a proprietary way . |
| 17 | Each of these master gangs had ‘ satellites ’ , smaller groups that supported them at need and stayed in the general area . |
| 18 | Then in one easy movement his hand slid a little higher , his fingers deftly slipping the bra straps from her shoulders , then freeing her eager breasts from the lacy cups that imprisoned them . |
| 19 | ‘ I think people get even angrier if they think about this precise thing that was done in their so-called formative years that made them the way they are . |
| 20 | There was no one in the office , the entire sales team having discovered important appointments that gave them excuses to sneak off home and start the weekend early . |
| 21 | He took immense trouble in preparing his lectures and the experimental demonstrations that accompanied them . |
| 22 | My soldiers were guarding the master copies of the very instructions that made them do the guarding . |
| 23 | What left his stamp on the stewardship of our movement was that he held to these passions so tenaciously and yet drew on inner reserves that illumined them with an unshakeable commitment to excellence and that rarest of all qualities personal integrity . |
| 24 | Despite the problems in local government , the municipal elections and the general elections that preceded them have provided legitimate government both locally and nationally . |
| 25 | But what are the organisational and personal defensive routines that prevented them from talking to customers in the first place ? |
| 26 | It is not surprising that the nobles ' traditional attitude of hostility to foreign war gave way to growing enthusiasm for continental campaigns that brought them both riches and renown . |
| 27 | The only faces that greeted them belonged to sundry dead abbots glaring down from dusky oil paintings . |
| 28 | If no settlement is reached the shipowners will be faced with the same difficulties that confronted them in 1911 " . |
| 29 | She ignored the amazed looks that followed them up the long hill out of town , glad to reach home long before the other two . |
| 30 | The study of portraits on coins is therefore as much about the political factors that influenced them as about their intrinsic or moral interest . |