Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] that they " in BNC.
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| 1 | But because such men were materialists and therefore underestimated the power of spiritual and moral values ( despite the Soviet invention of the doctrine of ‘ dialectical materialism ’ ) , they failed to see that they were only perpetuating the problem of modernity in another form . |
| 2 | We tried to hope that they were going to release Franky and that they simply did n't want the rest of us to get angry and depressed . |
| 3 | When they reached the prison , at Riom , and an official tried to argue that they had no authority to remove the canisters , Jacques Allier took out a pistol and levelled it wordlessly at the bureaucratic face . |
| 4 | He did n't listen to her when she tried to explain that they were going to marry . |
| 5 | None of the pupils seemed to guess that they had heard the same speaker more than once . |
| 6 | She often seemed to worry that they would appear strange to me and out of key with the age . |
| 7 | Strange dreams disturbed his mind : weird animals chased him down long dark valleys , but gradually he came to know that they were only nightmares . |
| 8 | By requiring its practitioners to possess the moral prestige necessary to guide , Indirect Rule seemed to ensure that they also possessed the means whereby , in the absence of any overwhelming display of physical superiority , they could govern . |
| 9 | Members of congress increasingly came to believe that they could insulate themselves against electoral defeat by assiduous attention to constituency casework . |
| 10 | At the end of the 1950s , the Treasury and its ministers came to believe that they were losing too many of the battles . |
| 11 | Soon the balding brown lawns seemed to decide that they had been brave long enough , and every dahlia in the flower-beds needed dead-heading . |
| 12 | Families expressed resentment if they came to think that they were being considered as a ‘ problem ’ family , and were quick to point out that had it not been for the arrival of the new child , they would not have needed the services of the family therapist . |
| 13 | ‘ I was fed up with English filmmakers who seemed to think that they were automatically entitled to have a film industry ’ Michael Powell has remarked of the situation in the late 1930s . |
| 14 | The GIST team seemed to think that they could brush aside any anxieties about the difficulties of being a woman in science by presenting a series of bright , appealing images . |
| 15 | He seemed to think that they required explanation . |
| 16 | The fact that Marc had registered her exact words seemed to say that they meant something — that he had n't simply dismissed what she had yelled out from the shower , but that he had remembered and , as it seemed now , had brooded over them for some time . |
| 17 | By May 1915 Unionist leaders were convinced that they must give up some independence if they were to influence the war ; the liquor issue seemed to show the danger of staying aloof , and the shell scandal seemed to show that they were needed inside . |
| 18 | She looked up , startled to find that they had already arrived at the top floor , and were now walking down the corridor towards her apartment . |
| 19 | But those who claimed to know that they were chosen , Calvin viewed with suspicion . |
| 20 | Aung San and his supporters were demanding full independence , but I happened to know that they would have been content , possibly even pleased , to be granted Dominion status . |
| 21 | You forgot to mention that they are guests of the company , not mine personally . |
| 22 | I did , and they , oh Chris erm happened to notice that they have charged for a new phone that I have n't got . |
| 23 | In the 1830s the farmers of Burwell fen began to realize that they were missing out on the prosperity achieved through drainage by their neighbours at Swaffham . |
| 24 | Gradually as they were arguing they began to realize that they rather liked the American . |
| 25 | But the sailing date kept being put back : first for lack of volunteers , then because of uncertainty about the activities of ubiquitous Francis Drake — who disliked other privateers poaching prizes he regarded as his own — and finally for a wealth of reasons so small that Ann began to suspect that they were nothing more than a smoke screen , to hide her husband 's ever-increasing infatuation with Miss Jennifer Gristy . |
| 26 | Owen began to hope that they viewed the incident as too small to bother about . |
| 27 | In the 1880s more Neanderthal-like remains were found , and many paleoanthropologists began to argue that they comprised a distinct species intermediate between apes and humans . |
| 28 | The vasectomized animals should be test mated to check that they are sterile . |
| 29 | It was presented in a further long meeting , going on well into the early hours of the morning , when George Elvin , having conferred with several of his senior colleagues on my telephone , returned to say that they would accept the proposal . |
| 30 | But as the movement became more fiercely nationalistic , the Futurists began to complain that they in turn were being plagiarized in France . |