Example sentences of "[that] they [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who was it who first said that they 'd witnessed something ? |
| 2 | Who was it who first said that they 'd witnessed something ? |
| 3 | And it was n't until I got back that they 'd said he was doing asymptotes . |
| 4 | This was purely business , and for all the jolly camaraderie Kate was aware that most of the men she 'd met this evening had grave reservations about her ability to do her job well now that they 'd seen her . |
| 5 | If a cat stuck its leg in the air , they all raced off , screaming that they 'd seen something move . |
| 6 | If a cat struck its leg in the air , they all raced off , screaming that they 'd seen something move . |
| 7 | I 'd told them I had immigration problems and that they 'd stopped my benefit . |
| 8 | Damn him if she would explain that the young man to whom he 'd referred had merely been a fellow Briton attending a conference on international computing , that they 'd exchanged nothing more than a few polite comments natural to fellow compatriots abroad , and that his arm had been lying across the back of the bench seats and not round her shoulders . |
| 9 | Or that they 'd sacked him . |
| 10 | Ted 's initial fear was that they 'd done something stupid and run away together , but then after a while he 'd begun to hope for this and nothing worse . |
| 11 | They wanted to ensure that people sufficient skill and training to run their own business and that they 'd done their homework . |
| 12 | At first he thought he 'd been burgled , but he was astonished to find when he called the police that they 'd done it . |
| 13 | If I gave them an order to couple up a full line of maybe ten coaches , I would n't take it for granted that they 'd done it , I 'd walk up the coach , one walk up one side , down the other side and I would n't If there were a heating valve not open , if they forgot that you see , I would n't do it for them , I would go back and I 'd say , that S K third from the back end , the heating valve is not pulled down , you 've missed it , you 'd better When you 're up that way , just pull it down you see . |
| 14 | He 'd picked up some cream that they 'd given me for a skin rash , stuck it under my blindfold and said , in a curious high-pitched waver , ‘ Champignons ? ’ |
| 15 | Gossip in Mother Russell 's had it that they 'd made their fortune by some prize , for there were one or two men in Harry Pascoe 's crew who thought they had seen strange goings on close inshore under the Gribbin the previous October ; but these would not be drawn further , and although it was never put into so many words , people came to accept that the source of Harry Pascoe 's wealth was not a safe subject for public discussion . |
| 16 | The ponies , who always had an uncanny knowledge that they 'd reached their destination , were stamping and scraping the floor in the back . |
| 17 | If there had been only two men holding Alison in the room , this meant that they 'd left her unguarded and she 'd be able to slip away . |
| 18 | Waking the next morning , she was outraged that they 'd left her to sleep . |
| 19 | Younis told me that they 'd taken my picture because I 'd hidden it . |
| 20 | The village youths had taken to roaring round and round of an evening on highly powered Japanese motorcycles from which the silencers had been removed ; those distressed by this were invoking the law , the youths laughed , their friends and relations pointed out that they 'd paid their road-tax , had n't they , like anyone else ? |
| 21 | Talk about giving the game away ! if these people did n't make it so obvious that they 'd pissed their lives away with drink and were n't prepared to do anything about it they 'd get a bit more sympathy . |
| 22 | Talk about giving the game away ! if these people did n't make it so obvious that they 'd pissed their lives away with drink and were n't prepared to do anything about it they 'd get a bit more sympathy . |
| 23 | ‘ But you would n't want to pay one gang and then find that they 'd sold your father to another , would you ? ’ |
| 24 | If they 'd spent time doing that , once against the backs would have stood idly around until the forwards reckoned that they 'd got their act nicely in order . |
| 25 | Even when the dissatisfied chants of fans were clearly audible from this potato 's couch , Watt insisted that they 'd got their money 's worth from Eubank 's great display . |
| 26 | A few people sat on the floor ( no chairs in the drama studio ) and jumped straight to their feet again as an outbreak of jeering laughter told them that they 'd got it wrong . |
| 27 | The second half was n't that much better , the opposition apparently decided that they 'd had their cup final however , so they meekly attempted to defend their 1–1 scoreline and this was their undoing . |
| 28 | It is , rather , that the errors that they make permeate their philosophy of mathematics , their account of its foundations , of what their subject is about , and in what direction it should develop . |
| 29 | We do not remember them for all the facts which they rammed into our heads , nor for praise or punishment , but for the way that they seemed to recognize our inner selves , and spoke to our essence . |
| 30 | Paul Ingouf then said that they wished to take us to the spot where the aircraft had crashed . |