Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [noun pl] that they " in BNC.

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1 The common tendency of all of these people is to be so concerned with manipulating others to meet their needs that they have no time to minister to their partner 's needs .
2 In order to recoup such losses , market makers have to widen their spreads that they charge all other investors , including those wishing to speculate but not privy to inside information .
3 Of all the animals that sham dead it is the snakes that are the star performers , some of them going to amazing lengths to convince their assailants that they are truly deceased .
4 By the time of the abolition measures of 1806 and 1807 abolitionists had failed to convince their opponents that they were not also looking forward to emancipation .
5 The letter had not been answered , and the Laird of Gartmore took offence , declaring ‘ that if he did not get such trifles to oblige his friends that they might depend upon his going against them ’ .
6 It is the refusal to accept an excuse that the recession is biting hard — clients need to buy to comply with the law , and most importantly to show their competitors that they are not just surviving but thriving .
7 In other words many farmers like to show their workers that they care .
8 How easy or difficult it is for girls to tell their parents that they are pregnant also depends on how accustomed they are to confiding in their mothers or fathers about periods , boyfriends , sex and contraception .
9 One of the pieces of advice offered to adoptive parents is to tell their children that they were ‘ chosen ’ .
10 However in all fairness to the Halling unit a number of those older men who fought in the first war wore medals for gallantry , and were to show us youngsters that they had lost none of their skills with a rifle .
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