Example sentences of "that they [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Critics of the Ellis-Beto era contend that they traded off abuse by staff for abuse by inmates , in order to achieve a controlled and disciplined prison environment . |
| 2 | Dot did n't want to hurt its face so she placed her knees carefully to one side of the lamb so that they pressed into the sewn field of flowers on the edge . |
| 3 | There is a theory that they brought with them the ancestors of the naturally polled northern breeds such as the Angus and Galloway , but in fact there had been polled cattle in Britain since the Iron Age and they were not necessarily imported — not even from Scandinavia , where many cattle are polled . |
| 4 | The message that they brought to each doorstep , however , required revision several times during the programme . |
| 5 | And she gave the school , no she gave them did that much , that they brought for here school books , and she finished her education in . |
| 6 | Empowering local communities , that 's what really frightens the Tories , because what it means is they 'll never be able to come back with those repressive and regressive policies that they brought in two years ago . |
| 7 | They were busy packing a basket with the things that Sigarup would need , talking quietly , moving back and forth between the two rooms : collecting blankets , cooking pots , a bag of wheat flour , salt and chilli , the cotton tarpaulin that they stretched across upright sticks to make a tent . |
| 8 | We hope to juxtapose paintings that they painted at the same site at the same time ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ I take it , from the fact that they remarked on it , that they 're not Copt themselves ? ’ |
| 10 | Initially , they simply put together a series of guidelines , concerned with scale , height and the street network between the buildings , which amounted to two sheets of paper that they sent to the developer . |
| 11 | In the event the justices had not completed their task by 12 noon and it was at 12.45 p.m. that they returned to court to state their reasons . |
| 12 | All 27,000 dismissed and striking workers would be permitted to return to employment in the same job and at the same grade and wage as at the beginning of the strike , provided that they returned to work in the period from Jan. 31 to Feb. 6 . |
| 13 | Flexing his fingers so that they popped with the cold , he looked around tensely . |
| 14 | These trends were supposed to be so powerful that many groups were driven to extinction as once-useful organs became overdeveloped to the extent that they interfered with the animals ' ability to cope with the environment . |
| 15 | Many of these Whig Jacobite tracts can be said to reflect commonwealth principles , in the sense that they argued for a monarchy which would be severely limited . |
| 16 | The peasants ' " redemption dues " were calculated not on the basis of the land which came into their possession but on the basis of the rents and services that they owed under serfdom . |
| 17 | He saw that they kept in their lines , with their helms and weapons in reach , and went back to the awning his servants had raised with a bench under it , and some saddles . |
| 18 | It is known that the Lombard King Alboin brought his army and then his people on to the plain in 568 , and that they met with little resistance as the Goths had almost vacated the area by that time . |
| 19 | But but prior to doing that they met with the branch that had put the resolution in . |
| 20 | And he took two boards and fitted them to the body , one to the breast and the other to the shoulders ; these were so hollowed out and fitted that they met at the sides and under the arms , and the hind one came up to the pole , and the other up to the beard ; and these boards were fastened into the saddle , so that the body could not move . |
| 21 | But does n't every band from that area maintain that they met in the Hacienda ? |
| 22 | Some still retained private property as is evidenced by the fact that they met in private houses and that they would sell their assets if people were seen to be in need . |
| 23 | Gilfoyle 's friend , Sandra Davies , had earlier told the jury that they met in May , 1991 , at the Murrayfield Hospital in Thingwall where they both worked . |
| 24 | They fly home today without any punishment over our exposure of Aqib 's ball doctoring or Lamb 's revelation that they cheated during last weekend 's one-day international . |
| 25 | There had been stone dragons , and jade dragons so delicate that they disintegrated at a puff of breath . |
| 26 | Erm , was , or so his critics said , that er his theory just would not work and the kind of argument that they produced against him , and poor old Darwin really did n't have an answer to this , and i it seemed a very very severe problem at the time was look , supposing that er I 'm a mutant you might think . |
| 27 | It was a genuine privilege to work with them because you could be the richest person in the world and then some , and still not be able to buy the experience that they carried within them . |
| 28 | Sir Ranulph 's wife , Lady Virginia Fiennes , speaking from her remote Exmoor farm , said : ‘ All I know is that they asked to be picked up and the pick-up has come in and got them . |
| 29 | I know that today 's announcement will be a disappointment for them , and that those on the Tyne recognise that the response to all that they asked for previously was fair play . |
| 30 | Can I just say , Chairman , that the problem was that they asked for , the region asked for equal representation with the County Council , now if all the districts did that then there 'd be , then the Grants Panel would have about twenty one people to I mean , for the operation to go ahead . |