Example sentences of "[that] [conj] they [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They then said to their Dad that although they missed their Mum very much indeed , they were beginning to see that their Dad needed them around to have people to talk to about their Mum , and so now they were asking Jesus to make sure nothing else awful happened . |
| 2 | Even before they closed the mine we knew that once they retired my husband we 'd have to move . |
| 3 | It may be we are afraid that if they understood our needs they might use that information in some way to exploit us . |
| 4 | I have no doubt that if they owned their council house they would now be very busily selling and buying and selling and buying . |
| 5 | He looked at my work and said I had talent , but that I needed " earnest practice in drawing " , to which I wholly agree : He also said he would be glad to take me as his " chela " but that my name and work must go before the council of professors of the Academy , which meets next Thursday , 17th inst. and that if they accepted me I could start work on the following Monday , 21st inst . |
| 6 | This meant that they would n't be back before the pubs closed , but I also knew that if they knew who I was going out with they would have locked me in . |
| 7 | I 'm sure that if they saw you cry , I swear to God if they saw you crying things would be slightly different . |
| 8 | Gotrek claimed that if they wished they could come to Karaz-a-Karak with an army and plead for its return . |
| 9 | One particularly successful firm said that LEDU officials suggested that they relocate in Antrim , and that if they did they would be open to considerably more funding . |
| 10 | I stayed still , hoping desperately that they would not see me , for I knew that if they did they would lose no time in tormenting me and finally killing me . |
| 11 | The questions maybe that if they did what was reasonable , did they carry it out in a reasonable way . |
| 12 | The lawyers commented that the Minister was giving detainees the message that if they wanted their demand for freedom to be taken seriously they had to go on hunger strike and become very ill . |
| 13 | Before they started , he had warned his people on this , pointing out that if they allowed themselves to be delayed , they themselves would be in grave danger of being ridden down by their own fellows on the return charge . |
| 14 | After the case was adjourned , the couple said that if they lost their home , they 'd lose their livelihood too . |
| 15 | Her involvement in many issues prompted Bill Clinton to tell people during the early Democratic primaries that if they elected him , they would get Hillary too . |
| 16 | In despair , Angel had gone to his rich cousins , pleading that unless they helped him out he would be forced to sell the land to an outsider , a property developer who wanted to build houses there . |
| 17 | Joanne was impressed with their ability to formulate the rule for themselves and felt that since they understood what they were doing there was a better chance of retention . |
| 18 | Though the incidence of Becker is only one tenth that of Duchenne muscular dystrophy , the three families who refused a biopsy did so on the grounds that while they accepted their son had a muscular dystrophy they preferred to live in the hope that it might be Becker and so chose not to complete the diagnostic process . |
| 19 | If they 'd have known that when they got they got out , |
| 20 | I thought that when they took my trousers off I would have a zip mark on the old fellow . |
| 21 | and er he said that when they took it up three years ago of course they from the first six months I think it is and we got on to them and they they did agree |
| 22 | King Francis became so rotten that when they took his corpse to St Denis they had to put it in a lead coffin . |
| 23 | He guessed that when they made their report , probably by radio to a close in-surface unit , the MOD would finish the job and order the destruction of the Titron . |
| 24 | When she worried that they might not know when it was lunch time , he explained that when they saw his sister come back from her ride , then they would know . |
| 25 | It is unlikely that when they signed they could ever have had the slightest hope of achieving such a reduction . |
| 26 | Did n't they tell you that when they sent you to collect me ? ’ |
| 27 | The Waste lay on a high part of the forest so that when they reached it the sun , which had already sunk from sight in the valleys , was still poised above the dark low edge of the distant forest . |
| 28 | ‘ Only that the house agents called it that when they advertised it . |