Example sentences of "they that [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Aye , a heavy blow , or a deep blow — but a long knife can make them that little heavier , or deeper , and never be noticed .
2 All morning the world 's top cyclists will have been reconnoitring the course , selecting their gear ratios and the most suitable of their many bikes , looking at the route for the best way through corners , testing the strength and direction of the wind — looking for anything that will give them that little extra in this first trial of strength , which will be clocked in tenths and hundredths of a second .
3 Er and at the end of the quarter I could n't pay that , then obviously you got no dividend on it because you still owed them that hundred pounds , but they would take the book away so you could n't get any more .
4 They 've told them that fourteen hundred jobs could go under plans for privatisation .
5 He told them that many children learned more slowly .
6 When the mother is lying with her kittens , reassuring them that all is well .
7 The two young men , Guglielmo and Ferrando , are teased by Don Alfonso , who tells them that all women are the same — fundamentally faithless by nature .
8 Unfortunately for Carrick he was quickly reduced to the rank of a ‘ common gauger ’ when an anonymous letter was received by the Board of Commissioners advising them that all of the excise supervisors in Scotland systematically maintained false diaries allegedly recording their activities .
9 The misery of these people was indescribable when it seemed to them that all their efforts would be cancelled by war between their country and Germany .
10 And thus it was agreed between them that all this compilation should stand as it had done .
11 ‘ Her courageous vigil reminds them that one day the atrocities of the State Law and Order Restoration Council ( the junta ) will be only a gruesome memory . ’
12 So we did n't tell them that that was what they were doing , I 'm sorry !
13 They decided between them that that would make the apparent spontaneity of their performances artificial .
14 name name dropping the supporters I mean for to those Tories telling them that the that the association for county councils for example is a backer probably counts more than telling them that that is a backer .
15 like you sell , you sell that back to them that that pays the man 's wages that is doing it !
16 So you go in a tell them that six windows are gon na cost them four and a half thousand and they go
17 When he did appear through the darkness , he was in a foul mood , and told them that several bombs had failed to explode .
18 I have a scanned image of the team with the new east stand behind them that i launch as my backdrop to windows .
19 The director-general , Michael Checkland , once publicly reprimanded The Late Show 's producers , reminding them that most licence-fee payers had never heard of — let alone visited — the Groucho Club .
20 Nevertheless , despite the necessity to protect children from being misled by the stories of ‘ heaven ’ and miracles , it should be made quite clear to them that most of the stories of good works attributed to the people involved are most likely to be true , and as these people are believed to have done much more good than most , they have been given a place in the windows of the churches and in paintings and elsewhere .
21 You tell them that this is the card that they have freely chosen .
22 The ICS , as a body , had never been much taken with political reform , sensing correctly that it set in motion a process whereby they could expect only to be replaced , and both reason and sentiment told them that this would never do .
23 Hamer USA told me when I spoke to them that this is a custom option and not featured on the standard Sunburst models .
24 John then continued , ‘ If any of the police again approach you or any of your colleagues-in-crime just tell them that this thing is bigger than any of you . ’
25 He reminded them that this was the 500th anniversary of the New World by Christopher Columbus , an important discovery as was St Paul 's discovery of the new world of Incarnation , for mankind .
26 The Oral Replacement Workers had not explained to them that this would be the case , ie. that the lobon-gur solution only treats the dehydration and malnutrition resulting from diarrhoea rather than the purging itself .
27 ‘ Our sales staff have been extremely busy contacting people to tell them that this definitely is the best time to buy a car . ’
28 Community nurses need to feel they can trust Council to act for them and their patients in directing the development of the profession , but unfortunately , his episode will do little to persuade them that this is the case .
29 Dr Frank Graham , the American chairman , persuaded the Indonesians to accept these humiliating terms by telling them that this would internationalise the dispute : diplomasi again .
30 they desperately want a child between them and to them a child that is born by the mother but is from a different origin than than the partner is is the next best thing an , and most of the couples , and we do n't advise them that this should all be kept secret , we leave that decision to be something that they will erm , come to later on when the child is older , and many of these couples will decide that this child will be brought as their own biological child , and I do n't really see that as being any different than many relationships where children are conceived out of wedlock , or out , with the relationship and people make a a a decision to keep this erm to themselves .
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