Example sentences of "it [vb past] [that] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | It asked that they turn in their " heavy and medium-calibre weapons and ammunition " no later than April 30 . |
| 2 | Once more , Huy had no opportunity to see out , but guessed from the number of twists and turns it made that they were taking a deliberately tortuous route . |
| 3 | It helped that they believed in his faked war record and legends such as that the religious leader Gregorio Aglipay inserted a slither of wood into Marcos 's back before the Bataan campaign in 1942 , allegedly giving him magic powers . |
| 4 | The FMLN on Jan. 21 admitted that investigations had shown that its soldiers had shot the two men and it proposed that they should be tried by an FMLN tribunal with independent participants . |
| 5 | Indeed , it proposed that they be retained and further , than in addition to this unpopular tax there should be a new unpopular tax local income tax — a prospect of little attraction to most politicians . |
| 6 | I no longer saw them , indeed , as legless beings on self moving pedestals as I had done at Salisbury but from being so constantly restricted in movement it seemed that they must be incapable of movement . |
| 7 | Before the last Test at the Oval , Gower exhorted his troops to ‘ one last , big effort ’ to avoid completely ignominy , and for a while it seemed that they might . |
| 8 | It seemed that they should stop and follow the sight of the two young boys , but it was too late they had been and they had gone and now only a disturbance was left behind . |
| 9 | Just as it seemed that they may be some sort of communication , the wind grew stronger and all went awry , the sky momentarily clearing , the celestial blue briefly highlighting the monochrome grey . |
| 10 | It seemed that they were determined to carry these solutions through . |
| 11 | To the administrators concerned with the welfare of the Masai , however , it seemed that they had a very good case for keeping the enormous area which had been assigned to them . |
| 12 | For a heady moment it seemed that they would not be disappointed . |
| 13 | It seemed that they had exceeded his instructions . |
| 14 | It seemed that they were currently engaged on a Pharaoh picture with a modest budget . |
| 15 | From the example of the cows before me it seemed that they were designed only and eternally to eat grass and , left to themselves , would never do anything else . |
| 16 | The kids had been sent to her mother 's house , and now it seemed that they had a new surrogate father . |
| 17 | Nonetheless , it seemed that they could do perfectly well without the aid of colour , providing they could see the general shape of the person . |
| 18 | It seemed that they were probably right . |
| 19 | Instead she almost dreamily let her fingers trail over Julius 's smooth and supple skin , she felt the hard heat of him against her palms , and it was astonishing how right it seemed that they should be together like this . |
| 20 | To her it seemed that they were closing in on her , and she looked ahead nervously , seeing that Lucenzo 's rapid stride had taken him out of sight . |
| 21 | It seemed that they were slightly worried as well . |
| 22 | It seemed that they saw straight into her soul . |
| 23 | All they ever saw of their guide was a faint distant tail-light , and then only rarely , at irregular moments after long periods of doubt when it seemed that they had lost the scent , made the wrong decision at some unmarked junction up in the stormy darkness . |
| 24 | It seemed that they were either capitalist or social democrats which I mean a social democrat by any other na a Tory by any other name 's just the same . |
| 25 | Mind you it seemed that they had a test at school last week and he was n't terribly happy with it , he said he could n't understand it , he tried to explain to me what it was , but erm , it 's not , not easy , but Ga Gavin said erm , he said they 'd had a test and he said it took him time to get into it but once he got into it , you know , he did alright in it , I think he said how many he got , he did n't seem to do too badly , but he said Alex did n't really do anything and what he did do he thought was wrong so he did n't hand it in , he said and in actual fact what he had done was right , so I do n't know , I told , I told Alex to go and see , you know , and ask about it and sort of erm , apparently he did do that so at least he 'll know , but erm , it 's strange really because normally Alex |
| 26 | The girls that were using it reckoned that they were contacting ‘ the spirit world ’ but I reckoned it was all a big con trick . |
| 27 | It showed that they were ill-fitted to become the leaders of a mass movement , but no more than that . |
| 28 | It showed that they had an intrinsic musical knowledge . |
| 29 | It showed that they were not anxious , that they knew they had a treasure . |
| 30 | It alleged that they were planning acts of sabotage to destabilize Egypt , and that the prime purpose of killing Mahgoub had been to undermine Egypt 's internal stability and its role in the current Gulf crisis . |