Example sentences of "them [that] they [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He taught them that they were serving God , not a Roman Catholic King , and practice of religion by his men was of the utmost importance . |
| 2 | It took only one or two flights in the Canberra to convince them that they were getting was a bomber with a fighter performance ! |
| 3 | When it was put to them that they were taking jobs away from men , many working-class women were prepared to agree that this was " not fair " . |
| 4 | Yep , well each station in those days had one of the war-time sirens on , on , situated right on the top of the tower of these fire stations , enormous great sirens with a very piercing , loud sound , erm so that was the audible warning , to tell them that they were wanted in the fire station . |
| 5 | ‘ I told them that they were barred from the club from now on . |
| 6 | I told them that they were mistaken . ’ |
| 7 | McLeish thanked him , scrambled up the embankment , drawing in deep breaths , and walked carefully down the side of the track in the sizeable footsteps of his squad , explaining to them that they were looking for a sharp-edged weapon . |
| 8 | In fact , we can turn the apparent paradox on its head : what would happen if the people of the future decided not to communicate with the past , despite the fact that their histories told them that they were going to ? |
| 9 | There remained one other tactic in these years , which had an earlier antislavery history too , designed to provide a role for individual abolitionists in England and convince them that they were contributing to advancing freedom internationally ; it was the tactic of economic boycott of slave-grown raw materials or goods produced from them . |
| 10 | Every one of them that they were gon na do next year . |
| 11 | He he said get that , he said and go with him onto the train and see him safely in the compartment , ascertain the time of arrival in Ipswich , and go and telephone Ipswich police telling them that they were to meet this on arrival at Ipswich , and I thought that our Chief Constable really |