Example sentences of "[vb past] them that " in BNC.
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1 | In newspapers I 've been called bland and ‘ smoothy-chops ’ so often that it almost goes over my head now , and people go on about my baggy eyes as if I made them that way myself — which I suppose I did , in a way . |
2 | Well I 've tol I , I sold them that |
3 | It was very , very close , the difference was two or three big points , he just played them that little bit better . ’ |
4 | During the Anglo-French war of 1294–8 , Edward I 's letters to his kinswomen Marie of Brabant , queen-mother of France , Jeanne of Navarre , queen of France , and Margaret of Anjou assured them that , although the kingdoms were in ‘ discord ’ , he had no quarrel whatever with them ( 12 August 1295 ) . |
5 | Then they played cards until stifled yawns and missed tricks told them that tiredness was now king . |
6 | ‘ Well , I told them that , ’ Francis Morgan said irritably and his wife and daughter caught each other 's eye in silent agreement that he had n't told them that Angela was refusing point-black to be married from home and was insisting on the full London set-out , reception at the House of Commons , replying unanswerably when he had objected on grounds of expense that she could well afford to pay for it herself . |
7 | I took each upon my knee and told them that Mamma is gone to Heaven to God Almighty , and asked them both to promise me that they would try to be good children and follow their mother to that happy place … ‘ |
8 | I went to my bosses and told them that , in The Wedding Present , there was another one out of the same rough balloon with the potential to be a long-lasting , album-selling , international act . |
9 | If I told them that , they 'd think I meant daydreaming . |
10 | At the height of the criticism , Law met constituency chairmen and agents at the Queen 's Hall and told them that |
11 | ‘ We also told them that failure to act would help swell the ranks of paramilitary organisations . |
12 | Before sending the jury out yesterday , Mr Justice Turner told them that to convict they must be sure an ordinary person would have regarded the means by which Ward obtained the cash as dishonest . |
13 | because if we told them that |
14 | Oh I two ghosts came in here , we told them that |
15 | He said I told them that . |
16 | I told him about paint work under the bonnet , Mark had they 'd mentioned some paint work had got ta be dealt with and that passenger door with the draught and I told them that . |
17 | A little after 3 o'clock this morning he rapped at several doors in Marlborough Street ( adjoining one of the piers ) and informed them that fire had been set to one of the ships in the harbour [ and ] matches were laid in several others ; the whole world would soon be in a blaze , and the town also destroyed … |
18 | There Terauchi informed them that independence would be proclaimed . |
19 | Northern Ireland 's experience in Spain and Mexico in the last two World Cups taught them that heat can pose more problems than the opposition for British-based players . |
20 | Haldane and Hogben 's Marxism made them critical of pedigree studies because it taught them that biological determinism should be supplemented by economic determinism . |
21 | There were tracks over the snow and we followed them that day . |
22 | In a confident speech , Mr Yeltsin told deputies he would add as many as five ‘ experienced , authoritative industrialists and managers ’ to his team , but warned them that wholesale changes would lead to ‘ major destabilisation in our society ’ . |
23 | ( Kautsky warned them that capitalism now required large international markets with a single language which , in the Habsburg domains , would best be German ; retaining Czech would lead to the economic decline of the Czech people . ) |
24 | Oh they just There would always be somebody would be on the road at any time looking for harvest time and my father would say to someone , tell the McGregors We called them that time , so the McGregors came up went tell told the others . |
25 | Regimental quartermasters , or whatever you think of , whatever , whatever they called in the Signals , in regiments , their regimental called them that . |
26 | Great Britain , for their part , will be looking to recapture the many admirable qualities which brought them that improbable victory after Steve Hampson 's early dismissal reduced them to 12 men . |
27 | He found that Turner by 1833 was painting trees unknown to any botanist ; probably he painted them because he saw them that way ; and indeed with the help of a lens the lecturer could turn a picture of a common tree into a Turner tree for the audience to see for themselves . |
28 | He certainly Dreamed them that way . |
29 | So if you took them that day you 'd be going while you were on duty ? |
30 | Yeah , well I bought , I got the C D cheap enough , you know when I bought them that mini unit , that went just after a year , that bloody thing when it packed up , do you remember it was playing in night , in the middle of the night and my dad got up and said what pratt 's playing music , it 's his own ha |