Example sentences of "that they [vb past] [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst it is no doubt true that the heaviness of early Soviet ICBMs and the ‘ dirtiness ’ of their warheads stemmed from crude propulsion and guidance systems , all that matters is that they accomplished what they were designed to . |
| 2 | Ale ale was one of the things that they ate they they drank they put ale on their porridge . |
| 3 | The great Labour party — which brought together militants , because it thought that they knew what they could do for the working people of this country — is scornfully setting democracy aside . |
| 4 | He let five buses go by and the girls kept at him , sure that they knew what he wanted . |
| 5 | With grave face and totally businesslike voice he began to talk about the beginnings of this place , of the way he had planned and discussed the enterprise , and how he had enabled the local people to be involved all the way through , so that they knew what he was planning , and they did n't feel threatened by him , but collaborated with him , knowing that it meant jobs , roads and plumbing and a higher standard of living for them all . |
| 6 | Although the Bible 's claim for itself is that God did directly speak through men , and that he so controlled them that they said what he wanted them to say , it is clear also that the men concerned used their own minds in the process . |
| 7 | ‘ Hope is all any of us has now , ’ said Julia carefully choosing her words to make certain that they meant what she wanted them to mean . |
| 8 | In 1895 , the Royal Free appointed an official ‘ almoner ’ to ensure that patients were genuinely poor and that they contributed what they could afford to their treatment . |
| 9 | Many severely handicapped children do die at an early age through natural causes , but at least the parents can feel that they did everything they could for the child when it was alive . |
| 10 | No doubt the now dispossessed Kurds and the Shiites have been surprised to learn that they did something they should not have done in the interests of geopolitical reality . |
| 11 | In other words , rats with hippocampal lesions have difficulty in refraining from punished responses because they can not remember what happened to them the last time that they did whatever it was that led to the punishment . |
| 12 | When people came in to choose a light fitting , how often do you think that they considered what they wanted the light for , or whether they liked , or whether they choose it because they liked the style of the design of the light fitting ? |