Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] that they [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , the recommendation to those committees was that they should treat the paper as a basis for consultation , it was on that basis that they approved it , it was my impression that they support it in general terms . |
| 2 | The staff talked only banalities at her , until she could have screamed with irritation , and try as she might to ignore it , there was no doubt in her mind that they disliked her , these crisp women in their crisp uniforms . |
| 3 | Ruth did not have to finish what she had begun to say ; she saw from the look in their eyes that they understood her . |
| 4 | Perhaps some hon. Members will be quite content to say to their constituents that they understand their problems and sympathise , but that there is nothing that they can do about them as the matter is out of their hands . |
| 5 | Afterwards she felt that Sarah had deliberately steered the conversation away from Terry , and recalling her remark that they knew him better than she did , Anne felt uneasy without quite knowing why . |
| 6 | ‘ Peter Brooke should also , ’ he writes , ‘ persuade the Chairman and Chief Executive ( of Channel 4 ) that , even though it may cause them some embarrassment , it is in their interests that they commit themselves fully to telling the public the truth and to assisting the police and the Director of Public Prosecutions . ’ |
| 7 | I had few friends , just one or two left over from school , but on the infrequent occasions when we met I could see from their faces that they pitied me , finding me foolish and Syl a bore . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And his tzedaka — the performance of charitable deeds enjoined on him by his religion — won him the gratitude and loyalty of many of the young men and their dependants , for it was as his travellers that they made their weekly Monday-morning trek to the country , secure in the knowledge that , no matter how erratic the week 's takings might be , their basic wage was guaranteed by Max Klein . |
| 10 | It was his idea that they should-read his books together and then discuss van der Post 's mystical ideas at mealtimes . |
| 11 | We believe that it can only be in our interests that they get it right . |