Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [pers pn] [vb past] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of my reasons for becoming involved in Westland was that I felt in some respects that I owed them something . |
| 2 | They complained so much that not enough time had been allowed them for their discussions that we had them back a second week . |
| 3 | ‘ We wanted to make the Cabaret Voltaire a focal point of the ‘ newest art ’ , although we did not neglect , from time to time , to tell the fat and utterly uncomprehending Zurich philistines that we regarded them as pigs and the German Kaiser as the initiator of the war … |
| 4 | The scale of the triumph of 1918 no doubt owed something to Lloyd George , but the fact of Unionist victory did not , for without the pact the party would certainly have won some of the Coalition Liberal seats that it prevented them from attacking . |
| 5 | But tutors were so impressed with the two girls ' work in textiles that they made them unconditional offers . |
| 6 | Ale ale was one of the things that they ate they they drank they put ale on their porridge . |
| 7 | By his statement of claim , the plaintiff alleged that on July 6 , 1932 , the defendants by their solicitor , a Mr. Kennard , verbally agreed with him that , if he would on July 7 , 1932 , pay the £208 in cash into a bank at Eastbourne for the credit of the solicitor 's firm at the Law Courts branch of the Bank of England , that payment would satisfy all sums that he owed them and a bankruptcy notice which they had issued in respect of part of the debt would not be served on him . |
| 8 | Since the literary works to which Ken devoted himself in the long years which followed his brief episcopate were largely unremarkable and unread , the waste of his inspired and inspiring vocation as a bishop has appeared both to contemporary and subsequent critics exasperating ; for his scruples about swearing the oath of allegiance to William and Mary were so nearly overcome by his friends that he asked them not to continue their arguments lest he succumb . |
| 9 | They played I mean all sorts of games that we played they do n't play today . |
| 10 | Hatton was so impressed by his bad boys that he gave them colourful 1930s ‘ punk rock ’ pseudonyms — Alf Artful , Billy Dustup and Reggie Smashem — which are no more suggestive of obedience and docility than other pre-war descriptions of brawls , affrays , legless drunks , or street robbers armed with sand-bags and cut-throat razors . |
| 11 | They got you know quite a bit of stick for not being able to produce drawings that they said they had . |
| 12 | Put against the letters that I wrote they 've all been sent out . |
| 13 | On the other hand , T. Rex might have looked really good but everything else about them was so naïve and teenybopperish that you could n't really admit to your mates that you liked them . |
| 14 | He probably told all women that he wanted them . |
| 15 | Opposition Sajudis members objected , without effect , to the timing of the election on the grounds that it gave them inadequate time for preparation . |
| 16 | One essential was that the head had to make it clear to his colleagues that he trusted them . |
| 17 | After all , if those two boys had died , it would have been on our consciences that we saw them get into difficulty and did nothing . |