Example sentences of "[noun] that they [vb past] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turning now to those carers who said in their first interview that they wanted their relative to remain at home , one would expect that those in the action sample would be more likely to have retained that preference than those in the control sample ( assuming that the project has provided extra home care when needed and therefore indirectly or directly assisted or relieved the principal carers ) . |
| 2 | Insecurity , hunger , constant vilification and injustice were their lot , and it was as exhausted escapees that they made their way from Europe via Liverpool to Halifax ( then the most important port on the Atlantic coast ) , before finally settling in Montreal . |
| 3 | On their way to a match against Great Lever , it was said that four members of the Accrington team became so ‘ liquored up ’ when they stopped to take refreshment at Blackburn that they missed their train . |
| 4 | Dinner was an unvarying weekly round in which boiled beef and mutton figured largely , and it was little compensation to several hundred hungry schoolboys that they took their meals in the school 's magnificent hall , overlooked by the demure and decorative paintings of Antonio Verrio . |
| 5 | It was some fifty years after the short-lived high point in Owen 's career that they started their work , when in the 1880s and 1890s much of the constitutional reform sought by Owenism 's eldest child , Chartism , had already been secured . |
| 6 | Why should Paul 's preaching have so provoked the Nazarean hierarchy that they sent their own emissaries in his wake to discredit him ? |
| 7 | A number of tradesmen in the timber , textile and tin-plate industries looked upon coffin-making and funeral furnishing as something by which they could profit , and it was not unknown for some to meet with such success that they abandoned their established trade to go into undertaking full time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The King 's Fund found that good projects involved families in the planning of services and built them in to the system in such a way that they felt their important role was appreciated . |
| 10 | It was in construction that they performed their real service . |
| 11 | James had won the first round , though , suffering agonies of seasickness , he was in no mood to celebrate , while Admiral de Forbin , in an excess of caution , stood so far out to sea that they overshot their intended destination , Leith in the Firth of Forth , and instead made their landfall 60 miles [ 96 km ] north of Aberdeen and 150 [ 240 km ] from the real objective . |
| 12 | But the British professional classes had been examined by the academic team of Lewis and Maude in 1952 , who found cause for concern that taxation had reduced the differentials between the professions to such an extent that they feared their quality might not be maintained . |
| 13 | I have already referred to the findings and the reasons given by the justices at the time that they announced their decision on 28 January 1992 . |
| 14 | He re-directed it to the sales department and made a mental note to have a word with the post room ; it was about time that they got their act together . |
| 15 | It 's a little like listening to those debates in parliament where parliament vote themselves extra salaries and I feel very uncomfortable in this process , I thought I might be coming here this morning to disagree with my own group , or those members of them that do n't agree with me , perhaps joined with the conservatives in opposing this motion , but I find in fact that everybody is saying oh let's put up the er , the heading , I feel very uncomfortable with this having spent six months in the budget review , criticising officers up hill and down dale every time that they exceeded their budget , having told them that either they balance their budget or that they came in next year with a budget with no more than a one and a half percent increase , or their successors would be doing it for us . |
| 16 | Now , getting back to the comment the woman made earlier about men being misogynist within their own world I 'm quite convinced that a good deal of those men would go home to their wives and family and be very loving to their , to their wives and family , be respectful of their neighbours but as soon as they got in the all male environment , and this woman was there to be used , she was their property for the time that they paid their money to get through the door , they could be as misogynist , offensive and horrid as they wanted to be ! |
| 17 | The Croats point to the fact that they retained their own chief executive — the ban ; their own assembly , the Sabor ; and their own judicial system . |