Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They eventually lost that game although the 3–1 scoreline does n't tell the full story of bad luck and missed chances . |
| 2 | Under the terms of the Compromise , Member States were supposedly given the right to veto decisions affecting their vital national interests ; under the terms of this Maastricht Declaration they effectively renounce that right , thus giving to foreign policy at the outset the same status as that acquired by other areas of policy where the Compromise has gradually been eroded over many years . |
| 3 | Apart from the fact that I 'd put my make-up on badly in my haste , I looked fairly normal — a bit flushed , maybe , and my eyes seemed unusually bright , but perhaps they only looked that way to me . |
| 4 | ‘ They just smell that way . ’ |
| 5 | It never has moved from there because our two chairs and it 's normally only two of us watching it , cos if we 've got visitors we never have it on , you know , er they just face that way and it 's convenient and that 's where we put it . |
| 6 | In every practical sense , in Huaiwiri , they already shared that authority — at the least with women , but also on occasion with the law , the army and the health service . |
| 7 | This Order , which is now in force , extends the powers of building societies with commercial assets of at least £100m to make advances on the security of land in any member state of the European Community other than the UK ( where , clearly , they already have that power ) . |
| 8 | And if kids have have n't shut off before then , they always get that prayer if the preacher is being particularly sensitive or insensitive to you know , You talk about a God of nature . |
| 9 | No one would call our battered brown book boxes decorative but when the PLANTS appear as they always do that morning of the year , their beauty and colour irradiate all around them . |
| 10 | Once they ever reach that position |
| 11 | That is , ’ he added morosely , ‘ until the ravens start pecking them , though they usually leave that bit for the last . |
| 12 | Landowners and farmers implicitly recognized this division , but they also realized that life both on the farm and in the village would ultimately run more smoothly if the socially divisive effects of potential class conflict could be dissipated or overcome . |
| 13 | They also calculate that sand grains of 0–5 mm ( 0–02 in ) diameter can be moved at a depth of 150 m ( 500 ft ) by a surface current of about 1 7 km/h ( I mile/h ) . |
| 14 | They also worry that assessment procedures will raise expectations that ca n't be met . |
| 15 | They also said that reform of the security and defence departments , as demanded by Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Andrei Kozyrev , would duplicate the suggestions of US intelligence services . |
| 16 | The new military authorities in Ciskei immediately declared themselves in favour of reintegration into South Africa ; they also announced that trade unions , banned under Sebe , would be allowed to function . |
| 17 | When they also understand that housing costs play a proportionately lower part in pensioners ' expenditure in England than in the rest of Europe , they may be grateful for the way in which we have promoted home ownership . |
| 18 | Taken in conjunction with what follows they show the development of UK practice , although they also illustrate that progress has been slow and uncertain , and that user education is still generally a peripheral service in most libraries . |
| 19 | They also complain that bus services to the closure-threatened terminal have deliberately been diminished . |
| 20 | They also agree that unemployment will not fall this year . |
| 21 | They also agree that unemployment will not fall this year . |
| 22 | They prob'ly saw that Angel One guy as a Chinese takeaway meal … a kinda Karate Chop Suey … hah ! |
| 23 | They probably stayed that night at Watchet , and there , tradition records , the first lines of ‘ The Ancient Mariner ’ were committed to writing at the Bell Inn , within sight of the ships in Watchet 's decaying harbour . |
| 24 | no , so he said erm , when I opened it court order , I said well I do n't know what yours is I said but it 's nothing to do with this , I said this is about that so when I opened the other one I remember then that when they originally built that court order bit he give me one cheque for sixty two quid and one for sixty nine |
| 25 | Other people tempted to rearrange borders for ethnic reasons ( Hungarians looking at western Romania , Greeks eyeing southern Albania , Russians glaring this way and that ) will have to go on making their own calculations about how much they really want that bit of the country next door , how tricky seizing it might be , and so on . |
| 26 | Sit down , she said and the girls sat down thankfully feeling that the only lesson they really enjoy that weather would be swimming lesson . |
| 27 | ‘ But the Northern Regional Health Authority document shows how long patients have to wait before they even reach that list . ’ |
| 28 | Some managers may delegate the task of in-bureau tutor to an experienced advice worker , in which case they partially lose that person 's services as an interviewer . |
| 29 | While they frequently acknowledge that language may be used to perform many communicative functions , they nonetheless make the general assumption that the most important function is the communication of information . |
| 30 | If they freely abdicate that power , what they consent to may have popular support , but it is not democracy . |