Example sentences of "[adj] that they [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was probably not long after this that they made their peace with the Yorkists and entered Gloucester 's service . |
| 2 | It was probably not long after this that they made their peace with the Yorkists and entered Gloucester 's service . |
| 3 | And to cap it all , it had to be on a case as weird as this that they sent him a Substitute Prosecutor who watched his performance with amused detachment . |
| 4 | They made it clear that they saw it as the core of a European army . |
| 5 | Essentially , it was a calculative attitude and it was clear that they managed themselves in the sense that they saw work as being a means to their personal ends , which might be owning a boarding house , for example . |
| 6 | But those areas were taken out of the project when it became clear that they merited their own separate treatment . |
| 7 | But in fact they were so ill prepared that they lost their naval base of Minorca and seemed unable to organize any effective counter-measures . |
| 8 | How persuasive the propaganda was is clear from the Latin war poems which even monks were then composing : some of these items were so popular that they found their way into school books for reading and glossing . |
| 9 | It was also possible that they saw his state of mind as a potential liability , particularly if he got desperate and tried to escape again . |
| 10 | ‘ It was so strong that they hit my March 1994 revenue estimate . ’ |
| 11 | it was just after that that they built it . |
| 12 | Equally loyal and effective was the Lady-in-Waiting , the Duchess de Bassano , whose husband was Grand Chamberlain of the Court , and whose devotion to their sovereigns was such that they followed them into exile , remaining faithful unto death . |
| 13 | They further assert that in the course of the pay-off Commissioner Zen 's identity was revealed and that the gang were so incensed that they assaulted him . |
| 14 | Some enjoyed themselves so much that they formed their own team in the league . |
| 15 | They were a decent lot and I was glad that they accepted me despite my anomalous position . |
| 16 | They showed great skill in constructing polygonal block walling and introduced into Europe — though it is questionable that they invented it — vaulting by dressed stones . |
| 17 | These morphological changes may be interpreted functionally in dietary terms as a change to a diet with hard fruit as the main constituent , and this may be related in turn to the drier and more seasonal environments they lived in , but as there was little change in their postcranial skeletons it is likely that they retained their ancestral arboreal locomotor pattern . |
| 18 | Some expressly did not want their money to go for weapons ; others were said to be so thrilled that they wanted their names on the missiles . |
| 19 | And he would make sure that they got it ! |
| 20 | He let five buses go by and the girls kept at him , sure that they knew what he wanted . |
| 21 | Just as a battle begins in a state of equilibrium between tile two sides , which gradually alters one way or the other , until it is clear that the balance has tilted so far that the issue can no longer be in doubt — so this gathering of rabbits in the dark , beginning with hesitant approaches , silences , pauses , movements , crouchings side-by-side and all manner of tentative appraisals , slowly moved , like a hemisphere of the world into summer , to a warmer , brighter region of mutual liking and approval , until all felt sure that they had nothing to fear . |
| 22 | They have high inflation , I might add to you that it had a far far more damaging effect on poor old pensioners , like myself and I 'm a war pensioner as well , poor old pensioners t to be serious , old people and people of limited means who are affected far more by the cure , the other cure that the Labour party tried that that was high inflation , mind you I 'm sure that they tried it , I think it just happened . |
| 23 | He gave way generously to many hon. Members — and I am sure that they appreciated it — but I suspect that we were hearing the Minister 's swan song . |
| 24 | I can not be 100 per cent sure the girls did not manipulate them but you have to be 100 per cent sure that they did it before you can ban a person for four years . |
| 25 | For example , we do n't know whether non-human species get depressed and even if we were sure that they did there would still be a lot of doubt about which behaviours signified depression in an animal . |
| 26 | Yes , could you say that just a little louder , I 'm not sure that they caught it down in the lower basement . |
| 27 | To circumvent an entrenched clergy and arouse the spirituality of those whose livings were so poor that they combined their priesthood with farming , shoemaking or fishing , he brought in ‘ lecturers ’ , unbeneficed clergy who provided a new preaching tradition , and organised sympathetic clergy into ‘ classes , or ‘ prophesyings ’ where the tenets of the new faith were discussed . |
| 28 | For others , however , it will be plain that they made their asylum claim to extend their stay here only when they had failed to prolong it by other means . |
| 29 | When he married my mother , Miss Jane Reed of Gateshead , the Reed family were so angry that they disinherited her . |
| 30 | On this particular the Government have got it right , and I am proud that they got it right . |