Example sentences of "that they [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1985 , when Japanese chip makers last started slashing prices , America 's government insisted that they raise them in order to protect the ( virtually non-existent ) American DRAM industry . |
| 2 | ‘ They want to show you that they trust you . ’ |
| 3 | The night that they brought him up here . |
| 4 | B. Hunslett claims the Service Crew were the first élitist group to travel the country with the casual look , and that they brought it to the attention of the general public . |
| 5 | This does not mean that the person needs necessarily to go faster , but that they organize their time more effectively . |
| 6 | there has to be space for these people though somehow I always feel that they cream it all the same . |
| 7 | NIGEL BURKE argues that they subvert our system of justice |
| 8 | Why should Paul 's preaching have so provoked the Nazarean hierarchy that they sent their own emissaries in his wake to discredit him ? |
| 9 | And to cap it all , it had to be on a case as weird as this that they sent him a Substitute Prosecutor who watched his performance with amused detachment . |
| 10 | Prior to his arrival Sotheby 's ( still specialising heavily in books at this date ) had an unwritten agreement with Christie 's that they sent them any pictures brought to their offices and in return Christie 's sent them any books they received for sale . |
| 11 | TWO ponies became so amorous in their horse box that they sent it plunging off a road and down a bank near Islip , Oxon , yesterday . |
| 12 | No this is the o yeah , this is the one that they sent you see ? |
| 13 | Is he aware that they welcome his determination to do all he can to improve their lot , both at home and abroad ? |
| 14 | ( ii ) They should have continuing opportunities to write for formal or public purposes so that they increase their command of the structures of written Standard English . |
| 15 | All these people — ’ he gestured wildly with a carpet roll of arm — ‘ they imagine that they perceive what is really there but they do n't . |
| 16 | But it is a probability that they perceive them , not like a dog sniffing its way along a scent path , but as a motorway , illuminated by very particular lighting signals . |
| 17 | She took the opportunity despite the fact that many of her colleagues let her know that they judged her disloyal . |
| 18 | This makes it especially important that they be carefully selected for the work they do , that their tasks and functions be appropriate and clearly defined , and that they receive whatever training is needed to ensure that they can perform their jobs adequately . |
| 19 | Vice-Admiral Hawkins , together with his two scientist friends , had just come to the bridge in response to Talbot 's invitation that they join him . |
| 20 | On May 22 Gorbachev held a meeting with Gorbunovs and Estonia 's President Arnold Rüütel , later described by Rüütel as " difficult and unpleasant for all sides " , at which Gorbachev repeated the demand that they cancel their independence declarations before any negotiations on the republics ' status could begin . |
| 21 | There is a story that they bet him a substantial sum that he could not read a certain number of books of the Bible without talking . |
| 22 | Yet this is not to say that her contemporaries completely misread her first four novels , nor that they misjudged their merits . |
| 23 | We are led to the conclusion that 11a is grammatically but not semantically deviant by the fact that substitutes for bake which normalise the sentence ( e.g. shake , forsake ) , as a class , have no distinctive semantic attributes ( that is to say , members of the class share no characteristic patterns of co-occurrence with other open set elements that differentiate them from non-members ) ; however , they do share a grammatical peculiarity , which is that they form their past participles with — en . |
| 24 | In the past they had a degree of self-doubt because many realized that they owed their position to factors other than merit . |
| 25 | cos she , she kept saying that they owed her |
| 26 | And receiver 's and that wa , when they sold off all the business , cos they , they then pay out the money that they owed her back . |
| 27 | Yet the logic of the definition suggested that it would benefit especially kings , whose competence to declare war could not be impugned : thus Thibaud of Blois failed to persuade the monks of Marmoutier that they owed him service when he fought against Louis VI ; they claimed discretion in the matter ; and in 1184 , the mighty Philip of Alsace hesitated to commit to battle the army he had summoned against Philip Augustus , through fear that its ranks might melt away . |
| 28 | As long as you can show that they owed you a legal duty to be careful and have been negligent , damages could come your way . |
| 29 | ‘ Charles was told that they owed it to their hosts to give of their professional best , ’ a royal aide said yesterday . |
| 30 | In those early years the horrors of travel merely reminded him what a long , long way Anna was from her own country , and he used to say that they owed it to her to make up for it . |