Example sentences of "they [vb past] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women who told me that their partners accused them of using tears to manipulate them agreed that there were times when they deliberately wept , but said that it was often the only way they could get their partner 's attention . |
| 2 | Both of them realised that he had abandoned all pretence that Sally-Anne was an ordinary young woman come to work in Vetch Street , but neither of them pursued the matter , Dr Neil from delicacy , and Sally-Anne because she could not tell him the real truth about herself — he would undoubtedly immediately send her back to the embassy , and she did not want that at all — it would be failure . |
| 3 | of them revealed that they had been the victims of marital rape . |
| 4 | When I first met the car manufacturers , they did not appear to be taking the matter very seriously at all , but my last meeting with them revealed that they are now much more prepared to make their cars more secure . |
| 5 | He bought a quantity believing they were Ecstasy , but when he tried them found that they were another drug altogether . |
| 6 | None of them doubted that they would eventually get to Greece . |
| 7 | Some of them added that they thought the TBC paid too little attention to the speeches of politicians : this was to be a frequent complaint . |
| 8 | Many of them believed that they were failing to find jobs because they were too old and a large number of the older respondents had become reconciled to the prospect of never working again . |
| 9 | Some of them believed that it would be brought about by an ideal representative of God , an anointed one , a Messiah ( see chapter 8 ) . |
| 10 | of them believed that recession would get worse under a Labour Government , and not one of them believed that it would get better . |
| 11 | The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower . |
| 12 | ‘ Some of them figured that I played Headless Horseman on bass — y'know … the weirdest concepts ! |
| 13 | A group of Puritans who felt that the Church of England was too close to the Roman Catholic Church had left England and gone to the Netherlands ; they noticed with regret that their children were becoming Dutch in speech and habits , and some of them decided that their best prospect of remaining both godly and English was to get in touch with the Plymouth merchants , obtain from them financial support and the legal right to found a colony , and go somewhere in America where English bishops would not interfere with them . |
| 14 | In fact some of them swore that they saw a phantom train roaring into or out of Box Hill Tunnel ; of course the sceptics laughed their heads off at such a far-fetched tale but the more psychic were inclined to accept the men 's story . |
| 15 | Or it may have been that , looking at that blueprint form , some of them saw that something more could be done with it . |
| 16 | As to coming together for further talks , I think that I speak for all those who were involved in the talks in the summer , which we concluded , when I say that those who took part in them felt that they were valuable and looked forward to the possibility of being able to hold talks again . |
| 17 | Second , other employees who had gone to the canteen on commencing a shift had not been dismissed and none of them knew that they risked that penalty . |
| 18 | I wonder how many of them knew that they would find a barren world , a place of death , of cold … no magic in Lavondyss … and yet the memory is there . |
| 19 | None of them knew that she had been with the FBI for two years , where she had specialized in the use of firearms , before joining UNACO three years ago . |
| 20 | This , at least , is the view of Gair ( 1978 ) , who reports that a Gallup Poll in May 1978 showed that 40 per cent of Americans did not know that the United States imported oil at all , and that hardly any of them knew that it imported about half its crude oil and refined products at that time . |
| 21 | One of them dreamed that he was the mayor of a town in Australia . |
| 22 | Quite a few of them thought that they could . |
| 23 | Those who were familiar with them thought that they were unworkable , given the huge volume of other responsibilities on consultant staff , their lack of training in educational methods , and the absence of support services in most hospitals . |
| 24 | Early this year they announced that they had found the 17 keV neutrino again , with a far greater degree of sensitivity than any previous experiment . |
| 25 | The reason for the move is that Phil took redundancy from BP when they announced that they were closing their Glasgow office and has since found a job with a Swedish oil company in London . |
| 26 | The Minister of State , Scottish Office , shakes his head , but he knows that the Government conceded this point when they announced that they would allow colleges to anticipate up to 10 per cent . |
| 27 | Blaming the low turnout on bad weather and a lack of public awareness of the issues , they announced that they would seek another such vote in October . |
| 28 | But in that horrendous final game with France in Paris they revealed that they could , after all , manage to plumb even greater depths of ineptitude . |
| 29 | In the announcement of their forthcoming System 7 software they revealed that they were moving towards the concept of using outline fonts to generate the screen displays and that they were developing their own proprietary format , then known as Royal but subsequently re-named TrueType . |
| 30 | The this problem with the detector , it 's another level of subcontracting down and er if you you 're buying a piece of equipment of this kind from a a consortium er essentially you ca n't dictate to him precisely who he 's going to use to supply the components for that system and er it is the problem came to the notice of officials when the consortium came forward and and said look , we we 've got these terms in our contract er concerning detection range and so on and er we may not be able to meet those , er so we questioned the reasons and then of course they revealed that they were having problems with the supplier . |