Example sentences of "that they [verb] [indef pn] " in BNC.

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1 Since they 're not , it 's a fair bet that they show something she does n't want you to know .
2 Looking at the poor , we can see that they eat plenty of roughage , but their diet lacks essential vitamins and protein .
3 She has had hundreds of letters from adults sexually abused as children saying ‘ keep going , that they wished someone had diagnosed it in their childhood and describing the trauma they still suffer as adults even though to the outside world they are perfectly normal , respectable people .
4 Only four authorities stated categorically that they spent nothing on training , although some very low sums per annum — £25 , £50 — were mentioned .
5 Not that they expected anything other than a hard time when they visited Barnsley .
6 For all the strength of its grip on American affections , the industry has not yet done a Hollywood : sporting stars , unlike some film stars , do not pretend that they know everything there is to know about matters from a nuclear winter to farm policies and demand to be listened to on them all .
7 All of Gabriel 's people think that they know everything .
8 an awful lot from teachers , you know , we 're just expecting that they know everything about sex education .
9 Once you have chosen your bureau make sure that they know everything about your system and the way that documents will be presented .
10 or they 're so serious about it that they 'll probably be watching everything , you know , just to sort of make sure that they know everything about
11 People write me letters saying that although they only know me from my photos , they feel that they know something about my personality .
12 If anyone feels they 've missed out on the award and that they know someone they fell ought to have been nominated , then they should do so next year .
13 that they hold one every Sunday in the football
14 We play to lots of kids who like The Jam and I think that they hear something like ‘ English Rose ’ and I believe that they go in and look for something deeper .
15 He thought , when this Lieutenant Colonel came back to him and said , oh my God the police budget 's in problems , we 've got em here , that they put something onto the council agenda .
16 For everything that is dropped into the tin cup , people have to feel that they get something back .
17 I 'm not saying it 's one that the tribunal should have accepted , but , but , but what I 'm saying is th there is an element of psychological truth in that , because if Freud 's theories if er bond Freud theory group behaviour is correct , then that does seem to happen some extent that the leader as it were takes and presumably this is why some people erm presumably er feel better in groups , perhaps that they get something out of a group that their own ego can not provide , but other people are uncomfortable in groups because they feel that their ego is being alienated and they 're losing some of their some of their power .
18 I hope that they got something out of it .
19 ‘ He said that Arabs were savages and that they ate nothing but camel dung . ’
20 The areas of learning and experience are those identified earlier , except that they added one more : technological .
21 She says that they took everything , £200 plus all her jewellery .
22 On the perfectly flat sandy beach little green , red , blue boats , so pretty in shape and colour that they made one think of flowers …
23 The proposals were rejected , however , by the rebel groups currently controlling substantial areas of the country [ see pp. 37239-40 for military setbacks for Mengistu 's forces in February ] , on the grounds that they contained nothing designed to promote a peace settlement , but rather sought to bolster the regime 's capacity to fight the war .
24 Dean 's parents spoke out angrily in the Mirror yesterday , after we had revealed the existence of the bug that they knew nothing about .
25 All this was done by the morning of the I twelfth day ; and all that day the people of the Cid were busied in making ready their arms , and in loading beasts with all that they had , so that they left nothing of any price in the whole city of Valencia , save only the empty houses .
26 A fourth man , said to have provided the bomb , has added that they had nothing to do with it .
27 It had n't taken her long to discover that they had nothing whatsoever in common .
28 Nonetheless , the absence of labourers is more apparent than real : the local practice of not assessing goods of less value than £2 did not mean that any personal property owned by people of the labouring sort was generally ignored , for a good many men later taxed on wages owned goods worth anything up to £10 in 1522 , which ( unless perhaps having disposed of , say , a beast or two ) they managed to conceal from the taxman and convince him that they had nothing but the minimum in wages .
29 Hazel , sensing at once that they had nothing in common with himself and his companions , started and sat up tensely .
30 Just as a battle begins in a state of equilibrium between tile two sides , which gradually alters one way or the other , until it is clear that the balance has tilted so far that the issue can no longer be in doubt — so this gathering of rabbits in the dark , beginning with hesitant approaches , silences , pauses , movements , crouchings side-by-side and all manner of tentative appraisals , slowly moved , like a hemisphere of the world into summer , to a warmer , brighter region of mutual liking and approval , until all felt sure that they had nothing to fear .
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