Example sentences of "[adv] they [vb past] [that] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps they hoped that it would be able to hide in the fog . |
| 2 | Perhaps they felt that it had been a dream all along , always doomed , this fantastical idea that their young brother would go on and get himself a serious education , even go to college . |
| 3 | If only they realized that she was under strain . |
| 4 | Already they knew that they were nearing the trees , for the burning Tower was low and far off . |
| 5 | And the more they talked about it the more they decided that it was . |
| 6 | It is in any case debatable whether the College could have survived in the face of such rapid growth in the private sector ; their lawsuits against usurping trade diminished once they realized that they had priced themselves out of the market and had little extra to offer than the trade apart from kudos and tradition . |
| 7 | Formally but icily they replied that they " do not desire to interfere with any views which he may have towards improving his position in life , but they expect that he will give them six months ' notice of his intention to resign the mastership of the School " . |
| 8 | By now they knew that we were slightly mad and waved us through . |
| 9 | Now they saw that he was not merely nice : he was sincere . |
| 10 | He asked if he could stay with them , and eventually they agreed that he could , but only if he worked . |
| 11 | Well they said that it is going to cost about seventy five to get the kitchen done . |
| 12 | Well they knew that I was a graduate in erm , they had two , they had a , a lab manager and an assistant , and they both went sick at the same time , and er , they asked me if I 'd do it . |
| 13 | The only experience of collectivization there 'd been was the Soviet one and they seemed to have known at least something about the Soviet , they knew it involved a lot of force they knew that if you were going to collect you were going to collectivize you needed the mechaniz well they thought that you needed the mechanization first and they knew that they d A they did n't have the capacity for that mechanization they did n't want to use force I mean i it would , i it would have been very dangerous , would n't it , to go back to the countryside collectivization . |
| 14 | Surely they realised that it had all been a mistake once you explained ? ’ |
| 15 | Sometimes they felt that they had no worth or purpose . |
| 16 | You know he was that tramp must have been an honest man because father said there was quite a little of sovereigns in that , and so I suppose it had been given to the parish and had seen that the man was properly buried , and then they discovered that he was an Aberdonian . |
| 17 | Because then they knew that we a couple of the kids were really terrified of him and if they 'd only have to hear his his footsteps walking up the street and they 'd start to shake . |
| 18 | When they looked closer they saw that he was whipping , not a fallen beast , but a spindly-legged Annamese ; both carts , they could see , contained refuse and had shafts front and back that terminated in cane , big wooden halters that were locked around the necks of four sweating Annamese . |
| 19 | Well we were disappointed in the Good Report because er they did say it was one of the major issues , and yet they said that they did n't think any sweep in changes are needed which rather erm contradicted the earlier part of our report , we would have thought there were erm changes needed . |