Example sentences of "[vb pp] [that] they [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The crews have reported that they actually prefer the air system because it gives them more control over the trains as they come down the hill . ’ |
| 2 | Might I just add to that that er I have heard that they also want to take over the Pembroke Hall . |
| 3 | ANYONE who has watched birds sleeping will have noticed that they frequently open their eyes for a moment , or ‘ peek ’ . |
| 4 | Rather , it is conceded that they doubtless act out of a well-meaning desire to treat . |
| 5 | Before the worst was over and the pound began to depreciate again , some twenty per cent of them had gone for ever , and a further ten per cent were so weakened that they too shut down in the next two years . |
| 6 | This eye contact unnerved the girl and sent the mother near hysterical , but having decided that they either meant no harm or , alternatively , that they were no good for eating , the orca lost interest and left . |
| 7 | Merseyside police have revealed that they probably killed James a few hours after they took him from the Strand shopping centre in Bootle . |
| 8 | Classical composers at this point often took repetition so much for granted that they merely indicated an exact repetition with repeat marks ( as in the Mozart above ) . |
| 9 | ‘ The Hindus venerate oxen , ’ he wrote , ‘ and it is said that they actually drink the oxen 's urine when they fall sick . ’ |
| 10 | It has to be said that they usually look fairly cheerful on their way in . |
| 11 | Several of them have said that they now understand how children feel when adults do not want , or choose not to , believe them . |
| 12 | It can be argued that they also produce an increase in civil service patronage in that senior civil servants generally advise ministers about the appointments , and quite often important chairmanships are awarded to recently retired civil servants . |
| 13 | As described earlier , Brown and his colleagues ( 1986a ) have argued that they now have good evidence that the prior existence of a close supportive relationship is protective against depression if that person provides the support expected of them at the time of a crisis . |
| 14 | Was it because the Holy Ones feared that the key to this inner knowledge and the inner voice would be misused that they never revealed their knowledge ? |
| 15 | Dieters were told that they only had to ration carbohydrates and then they could eat as much as they liked of other foods . |
| 16 | There was uproar when the Navy discovered the mines and Stirling had to own up , only to be told that they often dropped small depth charges at random into the harbour and if they saw anything suspicious sprayed the area with machine guns . |
| 17 | This was at Bangor and then I got another number and then I got told that they now have the direct organisation |
| 18 | Clare and Dawn , and former receptionist Angela Pelling ( who now works in the Transport Department with Hazel Thorpe ) were all previously hairdressers , but are agreed that they much prefer their work at Rentokil . |
| 19 | It was alleged that they unlawfully arrested Llewellyn Lovelace in Milton Keynes six years ago , and then altered his statement to make it look as if he had come forward voluntarily . |
| 20 | The SFO had alleged that they secretly arranged for their own companies to buy shares , thereby raising the take-up level announced to other investors . |
| 21 | On the one hand , it may well be felt that an old person 's wish to stay with a carer should be respected unless their mental state is so gravely impaired that they literally do not know what they are doing . |
| 22 | This was a time of panic , in which one farmer alleged that a thousand of his sheep had been killed by these parrots ; but it is now known that they rarely kill sheep . |
| 23 | At the same time the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Left Front parties , all of which supported the National Front coalition from the " outside " , made it known that they strongly disapproved of Chauthala 's reappointment . |
| 24 | It is well known that they always develop their more satisfying choreographic ideas when working with a group of dancers whose abilities they know . |
| 25 | That was discovered especially during the South African war , when a number of university graduates were commissioned and sent out to South Africa , and it was found that they singularly lacked an ability to act in an officer capacity . |
| 26 | To their surprise , the Spanish have found that they now get back from Brussels scarcely more than they put in . |
| 27 | Whatever their ‘ disciplinary ’ background , they have found that they often have more in common with each other than with their respective academic counterparts who continue to work in pre-feminist or anti-feminist ways . |
| 28 | How much of a threat this posed to those drapers who themselves furnished funerals is not recorded , but as none appear to have taken legal action , it can only be assumed that they too had dealings with these manufacturers whilst continuing to offer a funeral service to the general public . |
| 29 | It welcomed " the fact that the three republics [ Byelarus , Ukraine and Russia which had decided on Dec. 8 to form a commonwealth of independent states ] engaged in this comprehensive process of change have declared that they mutually recognize and respect each other 's territorial integrity and the inviolability of the borders existing in the context of their Commonwealth " . |
| 30 | On the one hand , there will be those whose belief in the concept is so definite and so fixed that they almost allow it to rule their lives . |