Example sentences of "they [vb past] [that] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When questioned on the radio , they admitted that their policy was to talk about the issue . |
| 3 | He then went on to discuss whether an employee could use his recollection of any features of the plaintiff 's plant , machinery or process which they claimed were peculiar to them even though they admitted that their competitors used similar machinery . |
| 4 | The Japanese Foreign Minister Michio Watanabe and his Russian counterpart , Andrei Kozyrev , held cordial discussions in New York City on Sept. 23 in which they agreed that their deputies should resume talks over the disputed territories at the earliest possible opportunity , as a means of paving the way for a rescheduling of the Yeltsin visit . |
| 5 | The members of the household , once they realised that their watches and jewellery were safe , ‘ asked them a thousand questions ’ about America , and , as the children 's governess later wrote ‘ they behaved with great civility ’ . |
| 6 | Gradually they realised that their chances were at par , and dropped off , though wistfully . |
| 7 | They asked that their wrists be untied . |
| 8 | On this occasion , however , they asked that their solicitors should be served additionally . |
| 9 | Because the Iranians represented a theocracy , because they argued that their revolution was ‘ totally depending on God ’ and that the Americans , opposing them , were the Great Satan , the American negotiators did their best to answer them in kind . |
| 10 | Then they found that their skirts were getting wet . |
| 11 | They found that their only means of illumination was the collection of antique paraffin lamps and that there was only one boiler — which worked intermittently . |
| 12 | The nationalised Boards , being larger than their predecessors , could , moreover , now afford to employ more specialist sales staff to cater for these markets ( though they found that their pay scales made it difficult to recruit and keep good industrial salesmen in competition with the electrical manufacturing concerns ) . |
| 13 | Penzias and Wilson were worried when they found that their detector was picking up more noise than it ought to . |
| 14 | They found that their links with environmental groups are not very good , and also that environmental groups are often not very aware of the kinds of services that a council for voluntary service can provide them . |
| 15 | One of the less well-known consequences was that , when the companies who wrote unit-linked business wished to introduce personal pensions , they found that their natural mode of operation led them to return on death the fund which had built up for the policyholder , rather than any specific guaranteed rate of return . |
| 16 | The nuns have acted to prevent the slaughter of the flock because they believed that their eggs have never been associated with an outbreak of food poisoning , she added . |
| 17 | For the most part , parents mistakenly thought their children were not legally entitled to vote , despite having voting cards , or they judged that their children would not understand what it was all about . |
| 18 | When the sweetness was all sucked out they murmured that their legs were tired , and cried until they were picked up and carried home . |
| 19 | They assumed that their arrests had been a political move and began to suspect that their continued detention had equally a political motive . |
| 20 | Both had been at the hospital until after midnight , though they had understood from the moment they arrived that their son was dead . |
| 21 | They stated that their model can be viewed as an amplification of Clark ( 1973 ) . |
| 22 | They observed that their right winger , Franck Corrihons , had never dropped a goal until the 73rd minute of the cliff-hanger against Bayonne when , with Biarritz trailing 15–13 , he landed a monstrous 60-metre drop-goal to steal the game and with it a place in the semi-finals . |
| 23 | Nearly twenty years later Phoebe still found it hard to suppress a little vindictive chuckle at the looks of growing shock on Jim 's face -Jim and Lisa 's Jonathan and Sue 's Alan — when they discovered that their righteousness was not enough . |
| 24 | Immediately after take off they discovered that their undercarriage would not retract , and as this reduced speed and increased fuel consumption — — due to the drag created — they led the flight back to the carrier , signalled their predicament , and again a further Fulmar was launched . |
| 25 | Here they discovered that their last great king had died several years previously , and still lay rotting in his widowed queen 's home . |
| 26 | Once serfs began paying redemption dues they discovered that their new taskmaster , the state , was less efficient and less demanding than the gentry . |
| 27 | Indeed the Americans soon found themselves moving yet closer to Britain , especially once they discovered that their own initiatives ( not least their pressure on Israel ) still left them at loggerheads with Egypt and the Arab radicals . |
| 28 | Professionals for their part were very sceptical as to whether impending community care changes would bring any real benefits , but they anticipated that their role of prioritizing and rationing services would become more explicit . |
| 29 | When they returned , having taken in a fair part of Sutherland , they swore that their feet had never once left Ross-shire soil . |
| 30 | Since they could recognize ‘ intelligence , wit and wisdom ’ in members of the lower strata , they appreciated that their social inferiors were at least their equal in certain respects . |