Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] that [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew that telling them would be hard but nothing prepared me for their anger and grief during our final month together . |
| 2 | It 's just I do n't feel the need to have them round me any more , and I think that suits them and it 's silly to make them pretend the contrary . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Did n't I say that letting them learn to read was a bad idea ? |
| 4 | As the days slid by , the Cruithin became a little less elusive , and Grainne waited , because she knew that to befriend them , to lead them back into Ireland , would be the greatest service she could render her people . |
| 5 | At the bar stood several men , well-dressed , hair slicked back , sharing the knowing sympathy of lions waiting until something passed that struck them as worth killing . |
| 6 | We realise that chucking them in at the deep end is not satisfactory . |
| 7 | By that they mean that multiplying them together in either order would have to give the same result . |
| 8 | It is easy to escape this issue by saying that the discourses of the two groups have little in common ; but discourse analysis should teach us that it is as likely to be our attitude to what they say that categorizes them . |
| 9 | Governors admit they knew of an association between the 2 men , but they say that gave them no cause for concern . |
| 10 | Now it seems that makes them sympathetic to those who — quite literally — get away with murder . |