Example sentences of "[vb infin] that they [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did you know that they exiled me — me ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Do you think that they move it around ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As long as you can show that they owed you a legal duty to be careful and have been negligent , damages could come your way . |
| 6 | Not only do they hold good against the trustee himself , and against his creditors during his life-time and his representatives after his death , but also against all to whom he may have transferred the property , and who can not show that they acquired it for value and without notice of the trust . |
| 7 | It does n't show that they wanted it . |
| 8 | The money should be transferred to the N U M and if it is not longer needed by those families , we would suggest that they give it back to help the formation of the independent labour movement in Russia . |
| 9 | The money should be transferred to the N U M , and if it is not longer needed by those families , we would suggest that they give it back to help the formation of the independent labour movement in Russia . |
| 10 | The Olympic athletes , the cricketers and the tennis seeds are just playing games , although one can hope that they do it in a sporting fashion . |
| 11 | The avowed purpose of the public schools was to produce leaders , and if we are to understand by leaders rulers capable of extracting the voluntary compliance of the ruled , we must concede that they produced them . |
| 12 | Now , however , the French , no matter what they might have thought of American rhetoric , could at least pretend that they took it seriously and that their actions were being taken in defence of ‘ the free world ’ . |
| 13 | If I came out of the changing-room with a bin-liner round my waist and a lampshade on my head he 'd say that they suited me . |