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

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1 It is likely that the Romans followed Alexandrian fashion in this respect , but surviving portraits of later date suggest that they retained their own conventions of representing character in facial features .
2 She took the opportunity despite the fact that many of her colleagues let her know that they judged her disloyal .
3 Did you know that they exiled me — me !
4 Anyone viewing all this nonsense from another planet — as most men do — can be forgiven for assuming that women are a bunch of mixed up crazies who do n't know what they want , but do know that they want it all , both ways and with jam on the top , too .
5 He clearly demonstrated that they formed their spores in sac-like structures known as asci , typical of the Ascomycetes .
6 The councillors all agree that your floral displays and hanging baskets are magnificent and want you to know that they appreciate your efforts .
7 It was claimed that they poured their drinks over the counter and then smashed their beer glasses .
8 It is customary for artists to feel antagonism towards critics , and though Sylvester was welcomed at the Royal College 's Senior Common Room , the painters sometimes joked that they found their ideas a week later in the pages of The Listener translated into the very different language of the critic : Minton , accordingly , coined the term ‘ pre-Sylvestration ’ to refer to this process .
9 A fourth man , said to have provided the bomb , has added that they had nothing to do with it .
10 It had n't taken her long to discover that they had nothing whatsoever in common .
11 If managers say that they gain their vision and their pragmatic skill informally and from diverse sources , if they see their own development as something which took many years and came from a wide range of contexts , it is unlikely that a short-term substitute can be found which will fit into either the narrow limits of brief in-service training courses , year-long secondments or part-time study in higher education .
12 One , what were the differences when you say that they chose them , so even though the basic shape was the same there were obviously some , there were some variations ?
13 Workers at Dowty aerospace can at least take comfort in one thing — the firms management say that they hope their streamlining programme is now at an end and that no further major redundancies will be announced .
14 It is n't a good system , and we have now heard both Jimmy Airlie and John Edmunds say that they hope it will be the last time it is used .
15 Depth of sleep Many parents say that they think their child wets the bed because of being in such deep sleep .
16 And they say that they think she 's hiding it but there 's no where to be hiding it .
17 The C E C when they 're talking about motions sometimes say that they accept them with the qualification and I 'd like to say to Congress this morning will you accept a qualification from the branch moving this to say that we are talking about groups of members and their needs not individuals ?
18 Now I M P A C say that they believe there should be a dedicated pensions act to replace trust law and the National Federation Post Office and B T pensioners say trust law should continue to be the basis of pension funds .
19 they always seemed backward , they found that they took them to different specialist and the truth is , they 've both left school now and got jobs , but they were er , dyslexia
20 And how come the reader of Animal Farm accepts that they accept it ?
21 We ordinarily say of causal circumstances and causes that they make their effects happen , but we do not say , and will deny , that effects make either of the two causal items happen .
22 We also say of causal circumstances and causes that they explain their effects , in a sense in which effects do not explain the causal items .
23 In the past they had a degree of self-doubt because many realized that they owed their position to factors other than merit .
24 because they realized that they needed it to invent something to fall in to what they 've already got .
25 When people came in to choose a light fitting , how often do you think that they considered what they wanted the light for , or whether they liked , or whether they choose it because they liked the style of the design of the light fitting ?
26 Do you think that they move it around ?
27 Often they will comment that they did it deliberately , for some poor reason or other , or say that they could , of course , have touched down earlier if they had really tried .
28 Once again the movies were proving that they had their own version of what was real .
29 Surely you 're not suggesting that they had anything to do with his death ? ’
30 While staying at The Vyne in Hampshire at the end of the last century , Lord Charles Beresford made a spectacular conquest which led to the object of his desire suggesting that they furthered their acquaintance in her room after the rest of the party had retired .
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