Example sentences of "that [adj] [noun] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose that that place they might , there might be a er a parish hall there or something |
| 2 | They have convinced themselves and the public that each year they have suffered draconian cuts . |
| 3 | So there would b take away this anomaly of old people having to use three buses to get from one end of the town to the other , which means , in actual fact , that each bus they went on to , they paid this ten pence , which if there 's three , if they do not turn it twice a week , twice a day , that 's sixty pence . |
| 4 | It had been his first and only history lesson , and throughout their hungry and needy years in Bunarkaig he never lost the sense that they lived under threat , that government was pitiless , and that some day they would have to fight again for the right to live at peace in their own place . |
| 5 | In 1988 , Mr Ken Hutchinson , one of the churchwardens , said that this year they had put forward some of the younger men of the parish in order to keep interest in the tradition alive , though there was no lack of interest at present and the schoolroom was certainly packed full . |
| 6 | ‘ We hope that this year they will once again put the eggs first and bring a smile to the face of a child less fortunate . ’ |
| 7 | Does he realise that mortgage repossessions were 16,000 in 1989 and 44,000 last year , and that this year they are predicted to rise to 120,000 , or 1 per cent . |
| 8 | ‘ They told me that this year they have employed a private contractor who is supposed to cut grass at least twice a month and weed once a month but its not happening , ’ he added . |
| 9 | IN THESE violent times when all young children are at risk — more so now that the nights are dark when they are coming home from school — the Government promised last year that this year they would leave the clocks alone . |
| 10 | We have heard from our benefactors , the Sports Council , that this year they are granting aid to the Society to the extent of £10 per head per member . |
| 11 | Mm , I said to Tony if we ca n't afford to go I said do n't worry about it , we might just go back down to where we went last year for a week because , it 's like I was saying to Joanne this morning , that this year they wo n't , they 're not gon na worry whether they do n't go on holiday but next year when Charlotte 's at school and got all her school mates saying oh where did you go and |
| 12 | The following evening ( that was three expensive dinners in a row , which made a contrast to Georg 's grudging once a month treat at the cinema ) she had insisted that this time they talk about him . |
| 13 | P.S. Have you heard that god-awful music they play whilst you 're waiting to get through ? |
| 14 | And then it just ended up that all lesson they were passing notes and I was walking past dropping notes in his bag and stuff like that . |
| 15 | They seek a chance to rebuild their lives in safety , hoping that one day they may be able to return home . |
| 16 | If they come from the Berlin orchestra , they need no references , so other orchestras will take them ; though we know that one day they will return to this orchestra . |
| 17 | The other children , my playmates , meant little to me ; so little that one day they all rose from the field and vanished , like angels . |
| 18 | Where we used to see an organ with its automated conductor and maybe a waterfall thrown in for good measure , we now have canned music and disc jockeys aping their favourites from radio or TV and hoping against hope that one day they too may be discovered . |
| 19 | I just feel I have to know certain things and that one day they will be of great use to me in understanding the world . ’ |
| 20 | Let me inscribe these words on this papyrus of a person that I have become and trust , my saviour , that one day they will enlighten me . |
| 21 | The fact that she would return to the same workhouse 10 years later was in itself not untypical ; many genuine helpers in such institutions may have had it in the back of their minds that one day they would become the cared for , rather than the person doing the caring , as old age took its toll . |
| 22 | All the drivers are exciting , and people who are stuck in this pattern of behaviour often have an incentive to stay in it — they feel that one day they will succeed , they will finally be perfect , they will at last please everyone ; they will prove that they can get everything done more quickly than everyone else , and they 'll know that they can undertake anything under the most difficult conditions . |
| 23 | In it , he entrusted his ‘ six sons ’ to the protection of his ‘ most celebrated and very dear friend ’ , adding that they were the products of long and laborious labour , but that he was encouraged by the hope that one day they would prove a source of consolation . |
| 24 | But nobody told the fish over millions of years of evolution that one day they would be prized for their decorative/educational/food value and put in overcrowded conditions ( relatively speaking ) in glass tanks/bowls , or ponds . |
| 25 | ‘ I used to dream that one day they would call out for a 10-year-old from the audience to give them a hand . |
| 26 | Bardul uses this chamber to store an amazing range of things which he has picked up over the years in the hope that one day they might be useful . |
| 27 | In the latter , ‘ in criticism , proposal and debate , the leading members of the opposition are … guided by their own previous experience in the various ministries and their expectation that one day they themselves may have to administer the policies now under debate . ’ |
| 28 | The commitment which the new proprietors are bringing to the enormous task of totally renovating and modernizing Low Birk Hatt is patently obvious For years they have denied themselves many of the luxuries they would otherwise have been easily able to afford because they both knew that one day they would need the capital to spend on the kind of home they both dreamed about . |
| 29 | But their real hope is that one day they 'll be able to take them home . |
| 30 | The Nairacs , now in their eighties , declined to comment , but they 're said to be hopeful that one day they WILL be able to give their son a proper burial . |