Example sentences of "them that they [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But while we were there they had several meetings because of course we were going to be demobbed anyway , and the Colonel er of the regiment he had us together and so did the officers , and warned us that when we got back to civilian life we must er beware of these agitators who tried to er create suspicion amongst the troops who were coming back , and telling them that they ought to join er these revolutionary parties . |
| 2 | Conservatives taunted them that they might find themselves , fugitives in Africa , ‘ drawing from under their arm a very fine plan of a constitution while they had not a foot of land to stand upon ’ , after having opened the doors to ‘ the revolutionary spirit which had destroyed France ’ . |
| 3 | fact it might be apposite this year to suggest to them that they might like to introduce one or other of the things that we were looking at in there . |
| 4 | How cast his shadow over the imaginations of their daughters before their squires beget upon them that they might breed a race less ignoble than their own ? |
| 5 | We read that the apostles in Jerusalem sent Peter and John down to them and ‘ when they arrived , they prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit , because the Holy Spirit had not yet come upon any of them ; they had simply been baptised into the name of the Lord Jesus . |
| 6 | When the apostles came down , they felt there was ‘ something more ’ for them and proceeded to lay hands on them that they might receive it . |
| 7 | The plaintiff will be the tenant and the landlord the defendant , but if head lessors or mortgagees are likely to be affected they should be added as defendants and served by the lessee , or else notice should be given to them that they may apply to be joined if desired . |
| 8 | Er mainly because in the past they did n't have the proper equipment to do the work that they were engaged on anyway , and although their own minds would clearly tell them that they would identify the work with certain equipment you know , that was up to date and you know , would make life easier for them and be able to produce more , I think some of them er er their minds were overshadowed by the fact that er there was a degree of mistrust between them and the management , that they would ever get the proper equipment to do the job . |
| 9 | One of the TUC 's two great general secretaries , George Woodcock — the other was Walter Citrine — warned them that they would lose influence if they did not reform themselves . |
| 10 | The men went in and stated their case to the man in charge , but he merely informed them that they would get nothing immediately and that they were to come back when their money had gone . |
| 11 | We parted at Paddington , and assured them that they would have to change trains at Oxford . |
| 12 | He told them that they would have three options . |
| 13 | Women who tried to get into the car park without a pass this morning were allowed through the barrier , but council officials warned them that they could face disciplinary proceedings if they try again tomorrow . |
| 14 | This is closely linked to their passivity : it does not occur to them that they could make changes in their world . |
| 15 | But provoking discussion among the trainees of some straightforward opening questions may reassure them that they could cope themselves , at least initially , with Sheila . |
| 16 | A consultant had advised them that they could earn £10.5m more from their current activities , and that there was a potential additional revenue of £25m to be made from the campus by expanding into calendars , hot dogs and more . |
| 17 | It may not have occurred to them that they could do the same when viewing video by themselves . |
| 18 | ‘ Kenneth was always the one who reminded them that they could have been very well off had they accepted the offer , which they rejected . |
| 19 | It 's when you 've been flying them for a few days consecutively that it ( pardon the pun ) dawns on them that they could escape and find out what 's over the next hill . |
| 20 | Practical work showed them that they could put six canfuls into the bottle . |
| 21 | In 864 a royal assembly at Pîtres near Rouen dealt with the problem ( without indicating how widespread it was ) of migrant wage-workers in vineyards : clearly some landlords were short of labour at least at harvest-time , and to persuade such migrants to return to their original farms were willing to reassure them that they could keep their earnings . |
| 22 | Not only did Brown Owl go on living at Longreen and being their Brown Owl ; the Pack won an unexpected new friend in Sir George Phillips , who , when he heard how they had saved the plane 's pilot from disaster in the bog , suddenly turned out to be not ‘ crabby ’ at all , as Mr. Gordon had always made him out to be , but told them that they could use the Longreen Park meadow for just as long as they liked as a reward for their bravery . |
| 23 | I would tell them that they should study something in depth and really understand it . |
| 24 | He then generally obliged the heirs and entrusted to them that they should give and make over to each person whatever he had left them . |
| 25 | Leaving aside any suspicion that people might tend to agree with any suggestion put to them that they should have more information , how helpful can this information be in practice ? |
| 26 | Television advertising tells them that they must have designer trainers , designer clothes and good stereos . |
| 27 | Recognition has to be made of that , erm , of course , that involves costs , and it in involves inconvenience to receivers and , and maybe other creditors but it is essential that er , whoever organizes the receivers , and I 'm not sure who it is , whoever guides them in the way they work , takes account of this , and indicates to them that they must consider the welfare of residents . |
| 28 | Companies bidding for franchises must satisfy them that they will broadcast a sufficient proportion of ‘ quality ’ programming , a fair enough requirement perhaps , given the limitless temptations to pander to the lowest common denominator . |
| 29 | ( Matthew says of them that they will sit on the twelve thrones of Israel , judging the twelve tribes . ) |
| 30 | I can assure them that they will have no progress until they renounce violence and terrorism . |