Example sentences of "that they [verb] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And to cap it all , it had to be on a case as weird as this that they sent him a Substitute Prosecutor who watched his performance with amused detachment . |
| 2 | There is a story that they bet him a substantial sum that he could not read a certain number of books of the Bible without talking . |
| 3 | As long as you can show that they owed you a legal duty to be careful and have been negligent , damages could come your way . |
| 4 | My mum and dad deny that they make them a brew , but when I get home there 's usually 20 dirty cups outside the door . ’ |
| 5 | That was hot , yes and th in between there used to be that 's where your furnace used to go in and come back and up out the chimney and that they put them the in there to heat the water quick you see and yet they ought to be , they had to be sliced out with a what they call a slice , cos they used to get furred up and we used to give them nineteen and sixpence for that to fill the boiler up again , we had t used to have take Pinmill and they used to have to come up to get fresh water into the anchor boat and we used to pump it up by hand , into the boiler . |
| 6 | ‘ If we comb through our stories and one encounters with wild whales and dolphins , we find that they seem to hang together along a shining thread — that whales and dolphins know what they are doing , that their actions are purposeful , and stunningly specific to the occasion , that they intend us no harm , that they are aware . |
| 7 | Adam took his GCSEs four years early and staff at St Hugh 's College Oxford were so impressed by his brilliance that they offered him a place . |
| 8 | While with Hofmann he had so successfully completed an investigation for Allsopps & Sons of Burton-on-Trent that they offered him an appointment as chemist at the brewery . |
| 9 | Yes Chairman , of the hundred and sixty thousand plus cost , erm , part of the contribution by the major servicing committee , and I understand that they advised me the balance has been made from local contributions , and charitable sources . |
| 10 | He astounded his American masters by demanding that they give him a more worthwhile job or he would be on his way home . |
| 11 | But while the large number of coins means that they give us a large quantity of information , their small size and the consequent brevity of their inscriptions greatly restricts the level of interpretation we can make from them compared with , say , a lengthy edict of a Roman emperor fully inscribed on stone . |
| 12 | But you can see that er for someone who has no , a wife who has no income and her husband 's paying twenty five percent or forty percent then by moving a , say er twenty thousand at erm well er whatever percentage to fill up these allowances er if you 're getting ten thousand or twenty thousand put , put it into the wife 's name that they give us the interest is then hers , if she has no other income it neatly can be swallowed up by the allowance . |
| 13 | Safety validation of contractors was another item th that they give you a briefing of the meeting |
| 14 | If so , the arbitrator may make a separate recommendation to The Post Office that they give you an ‘ ex gratia ’ payment . |
| 15 | But one thing about our Asian men is that they think it a matter of pride that their women must not go out to work . |
| 16 | Is he aware that they posed me the question , ’ Is anybody in the Government prepared to stand up and fight to defend the coal industry ? ’ |
| 17 | The fact that they reserved me a front row seat in the Big Top of their felicity did assist in throttling back the glooms . |
| 18 | I do n't know how they can make mistakes like that they send you a letter one minute and then on your rent book 's different . |
| 19 | EPC 's expertise brings significant benefits to its members in the water and process industries , and the club 's continuing expansion indicates that they find it a cost-effective extension of in-house resources , as well as a focal point for keeping abreast of developments in the field of effluent treatment . |
| 20 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 21 | I think that day that they gave me a lift home . |
| 22 | She says that they gave them every assistance possible . |
| 23 | But anyway we , they must have been so impressed by the , the order that they got , that they gave us the agency for Galashiels and Selkirk for the Austin . |