Example sentences of "that they [vb past] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Now , the Yale and Union locks they 'd got a certain type of locks that they produced and it was all done with a system , you know what I mean and more or less come to assembly and er they did that .
2 Jesus said simply that they failed because they had little faith .
3 told an NOP survey that they thought that their take-home pay would be hit .
4 So whether the fact that they thought that she was a witch was maybe kind of half an excuse just for getting her out of the house I do n't know .
5 There was a lot of support from your colleagues if you were in trouble for the very reason that they knew if they gave you help , you 'd automatically give it them .
6 Pupils reached the point where they could say that they realized that someone — namely their teachers and their tutors — knew them very well .
7 though he did not want Lindy to know that they listened until they heard a noise again Then Bill laughed .
8 That he could do this without awakening the slightest resentment ill the boys was a sign that they recognised that it was their work that mattered to Basil , and in no way his self-importance , which , to a quite remarkable degree he did not have .
9 What pleased me very much was that someone said of my first photographs taken abroad that they looked like they had been taken anywhere .
10 But er , Danny says that they said that they were
11 told a Gallup poll that they believed that they would pay more tax under a Labour Government and 59 per cent .
12 It is , however , beyond doubt that the overwhelming majority of Cabinet ministers interviewed declared unequivocally that they believed that she could not win .
13 It is very important that such people are helped to get back in touch with the loss that they experienced when they were young .
14 Several subjects reported that they felt that they would be able to give far more information if they were permitted to recall the junctions in the order in which they had been driven .
15 So it will not do to say that the reason why the Government found it necessary to curtail debate on the Bill was that they felt that there would be massive opposition to it .
16 The bedchamber was hung with silks which were so fine that they bruised if something brushed against them .
17 There they spend the summer in a state of suspended animation , sustained by the fat reserves that they accumulated when they were caterpillars .
18 I am not sure who is more demoralised by that — the local people , who frequently complain that they do not get a quick response when they need help , or the local police , who attend the crime in an attempt to do the good job that they intended when they entered the police force , knowing that they are likely to be pulled in all directions to answer calls on a blue line that has been pulled far too thin by the Government 's demands .
19 In a recent survey one in five incontinent women were afraid that they smelt and one in nine believed that sexual activity was compromised .
20 Did they di do you think they I was going to say enjoy there but I do I do n't think that 'd be the right word , but d did they like or did they prefer to work piece work or was it something that they loathed or I mean there was more money to be made at it was n't there ?
21 Once the excavation is over , the vast majority of sites revert to the anonymity that they possessed before it started .
22 Maybe their system 's organized differently , but fundamentally the problems are the same and that 's given our people the confidence that they needed because they 've been able to see that people everywhere , it 's not just them isolated in , in , you know , Tory Britain , who are facing these particular difficulties , but issues of privatization for example as the same in France and actually about to get much worse , er but , and , and I think that helped erm our colleagues from France who 've also got a perspective on their struggles and their battles we 've been able to support one another with information about companies working , multi-national companies working on both sides of the Channel .
23 They did not , of course , mention that they fled because they knew the alternative would have been even less attractive , since at that time Philby was still in the West , having been publicly exonerated by Harold Macmillan .
24 Spittals made great play of tapping the microphones and checking that they worked before he introduced the superintendent .
25 The persons solicited in this way reacted with annoyance , perhaps indicating that they supposed that they were being solicited for the purposes of prostitution ( the magistrates having found as a fact that ‘ it would be impossible for anyone so touted or solicited without enquiry to appreciate the purpose of the solicitation , and that a solicitation for this purpose in the circumstances of time and place was such an affront that it might provoke a breach of the peace . ’ )
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