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

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1 Respondents understood very clearly the difficult role of the manager , and some workers openly confessed that nothing would induce them to take on the manager 's job !
2 So long as the possibility remained that nothing would happen they felt no compulsion to educate themselves .
3 They tied down the oars , too , so that nothing could move them .
4 She thought of Alexei , his life , its wealth , its comforts , his family , so substantially lodged in him that nothing could remove them .
5 When I consider the striking natural beauties of such a river as that at Matlock , and the effect of the seven-storey buildings that have been raised there , and on other beautiful streams , for cotton manufactories , I am inclined to think that nothing can equal them for the purpose of disbeautifying an enchanting piece of scenery ; and that economy had produced , what the greatest ingenuity , if a prize were given for ugliness , could not surpass .
6 It 's not just that nothing can harm them ( that old suave illusion ) , but that nothing can harm anyone they care about either .
7 And I only hope that in the end our roads will become so clogged with all these fume-belching cars and lorries that everyone will give them up and start going by train again .
8 Moreover , time and again there are ‘ hidden grievers ’ who bear their distress alone , feeling that no-one can help them .
9 All of them would live more happily if they and the world remained in ignorance , and to try to achieve that I would give them the one gift I could .
10 ‘ I am not so complacent that I would say they wo n't become a formidable competitor but for now they are not , ’ Jonathan Martin , head of sport at the BBC , said .
11 But before before I ask North Yorkshire to introduce the matter , can I put H B F on notice that I would like them to follow on from North Yorkshire , when they have made their contribution .
12 I vowed then , as I have vowed many times before and since , that I would never again make myself so vulnerable to the team , that I would get them off my back and out of my life if it was the last thing I did .
13 Just as he did earlier in the chapter , he warns Moses and Aaron to ‘ Get away from the midst of this congregation , that I may consume them in a moment . ’
14 If you have any other items you wish to raise at the meeting , please advise me beforehand so that I may include them on the agenda .
15 ‘ And Ianthe and Mr Stonebird ’ — ‘ Rupert ’ did not quite come out-'live so near that I dare say they can escort each other , ’ said Sophia .
16 They did it very well , that I 'll grant them , but then they 've had plenty of practice .
17 ‘ He thinks I wo n't remember my lines , ’ thought Gabriel , ‘ or that I 'll rush them like I did last time .
18 If you come up with that sort of material , then the American and English newspapers will publish an interview that I 'll give them ’ .
19 It 's more than likely that I 'll ask them to publish that we know there 's a message but that she has n't delivered it and wo n't talk .
20 I keep saying when they get sort of quite long that I 'll have them properly shaped and
21 It may be possible that I shall meet them all again one day .
22 That I will tell them everything I can find out .
23 I have never been confident that I can split them with the naked eye , but 7 × 50 binoculars make it easy enough .
24 I am now trying , in vain , to uuencode the files so that I can send them to anyone who wants them thro' mail .
25 I do n't think for a minute that I can work them out in movies .
26 It remains quite clear across the years , the topography absolutely plain , so precise in details of dress that I can use them to place the dream in historical time .
27 I wish to go back to Uncle George and Gillian , ’ she added , ‘ so that I can guide them back to Threlkeld . ’
28 The hills are mine , and the living streams and the wind that breathes in the valley and the tiny white flowers that only I know because only I lie so close to the earth that I can see them move .
29 well , if you can get on with doing that thing , sit down and look through those magazines with me and I 'll show you the prices that I can get them at retail I mean at trade , all the prices cos I 've got that two and a half thousand gallon job and that is only seventy quid , so I 'm just gon na have one of those , I 'm gon na have that with a U V A filter and eight er eight watt U V A filter which is fifty quid , that then , which is for one of those tanks which is for three hundred and fifty , but that 's not , I 've that 's
30 After their relegation last season , Ballymena will be out to prove a point , and I hope that I can help them achieve that . ’
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