Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb past] [that] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was rather boring , and one of the gang got a can of anti-perspirant and suggested that they each have a sniff to get high and have ‘ dreams ’ . |
| 2 | Julian had a humbler conception of her task than the other prophetic reformers I have mentioned , who all experienced God as an absolute imperative to action and felt that they had a mission to defy the religious and secular establishment of their day . |
| 3 | Dicke and Peebles were preparing to look for this radiation when Penzias and Wilson heard about their work and realized that they had already found it . |
| 4 | New lawyers acting for two the three defendants accused Galligan of racism and incompetence and suggested that they would appeal against the sentences . |
| 5 | Some of the power workers refused to act as a militant vanguard and said that they would only come out when it was clear that the majority of people supported the stoppage . |
| 6 | During it , the workers had seen the managers run the station without their help and knew that they could again run it . |
| 7 | It was well beyond the range of the ‘ oboe ’ radar equipment and meant that they were wide open to fighter attacks as they approached the city . |
| 8 | The man talked a lot about karma and said that they had obviously been together in a previous incarnation , but now their birthdates were not synchronized . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Both companies expressed disappointment at Cheney 's decision and said that they would contest the cancellation . |
| 11 | Numerous opposition legislators denounced the decision and stated that they would appeal against it . |
| 12 | There was a time in the history of the Liberal party when it trusted people with their own money and believed that they could make their own decisions . |
| 13 | Those not giving evidence that I spoke to found watching the trials a useful experience and felt that they had either learned something from the process or at least , if they were already experienced in giving evidence , received helpful confirmation on points of technique . |
| 14 | The compounds remained on the research laboratory shelves until T&L main board director Saxon Tate visited Vlitos one day and suggested that they be screened ( Tate and fellow board director Colin Lyle were charged with overseeing research . ) |
| 15 | Ozawa and his supporters — estimated to constitute a majority within the faction 's 67 members in the lower chamber of the Diet , and to include almost all of the faction 's younger members — contested the procedural validity of Obuchi 's selection and indicated that they were prepared to establish a breakaway faction rather than accept his leadership . |
| 16 | He could hear people shouting in the distance and knew that they had gone chasing off in the opposite direction . |
| 17 | In 1989 their parents asked for the twins ' photograph to be published in a Sunday newspaper and vowed that they would never be locked away in an institution . |
| 18 | They were so dependent on Britain for their trade and knew that they were accepted into the EC only because we had become a member that it was not a subject that exercised them overmuch . |
| 19 | Donna consulted the directions on the sheet of paper and realized that they must be pretty close to their destination . |
| 20 | After the Fleischmann and Pons press conference in 1989 Jones recalled this early achievement of ‘ breakeven ’ in muon catalysed fusion and joked that they had wondered whether to call a press conference in 1982 and announce that energy output from fusion had been accomplished . |
| 21 | Ethel Elderton found that in Chorlton working class wives talked freely about birth control and said that they ‘ made their husbands take precautions ’ . |
| 22 | The bombers must have seen the persons in the well-lighted room through the open door and realised that they were almost certain to die in the explosion . |
| 23 | Whereas John 's will had been full of retribution , Jennie in one sentence thanked the thirteen people she considered important in her life and asked that they should simply ‘ share and share alike ’ . |
| 24 | An army spokesman pointed out to journalists that the men were being held under anti-terrorist legislation and added that they had already been interrogated and had been ‘ singing like birds ’ , a phrase from the criminal underworld implying that they had confessed to crimes . |
| 25 | They have given each guest a limited-edition Disney sweatshirt and insisted that they wear it to gain entry to the gala performance . |
| 26 | And so th union er er issued er er a a leaflet affair and said that they 'd be pleased to receive loans from any of the members . |
| 27 | In the middle of 1989 they sold their holding on Adobe and announced that they would be seeking to develop their own version of PostScript and their own font technology . |
| 28 | Board members talked about their growing awareness of the complexity of problems associated with their school and emphasised that they found stimulation in the challenge to their accepted values , through exploration of issues . |
| 29 | In another village in the hills where there was a Christian community the village pastor came to find the chaplain and explained that they were about to hold a service of thanksgiving for their liberation and would like some of the troops to attend . |
| 30 | CIA Marketing Director Bryan Squibb said : ‘ More than half the companies surveyed have left themselves unprotected against bad debt and reported that they were merely making bad debt provisions , taking legal action , vetting customers or using debt collection agencies . |