Example sentences of "they [vb past] that [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They stated that none of the background reports or assessments had been carried out , and stressed that these are fundamentally necessary in order to determine what is in the children 's best interests . |
| 2 | His brothers seemed rather unimaginative and narrow-minded , although they were both well educated : they felt that anybody outside the Church or university could not be respected . |
| 3 | The judges who decided McLoughlin worried about the most accurate description of the principles underlying the precedent cases cited to them , although they knew that nothing in the explicit extension of any convention settled what these principles were or what weight they should be given . |
| 4 | From their boat , they saw that everything on the island was entirely covered with fine white dust , like snow , and that the trees on the northern part of Krakatoa and Verlaten Island had been stripped of their leaves and branches by the rain of falling pumice , while those growing on Lang Island and Polish Hat seemed to have got away without much damage . |
| 5 | It seemed to [ Judith ] that the emperor 's good physical condition might not last much longer , and his death would threaten danger to herself and to Charles unless they could win over one of Charles 's elder brothers to work with them , and they calculated that none of the emperor 's sons would fit this role so well as Lothar . |