Example sentences of "[that] they [verb] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then why would Mao in nineteen forty five say that how that they 'd made a major concession to land to the tiller but that this is a correct one and they 're going to , that land reform has to be taken in stages and they 're going to first of all reduce rent and , I mean er |
| 2 | Wonder wh well what 's that , you know , be a bang so close well it was n't till , till some time after we found out that they 'd stationed a naval gun somewhere Newtown way and they 'd f fired this gun to , as a practice . |
| 3 | And er er sort of phone call one afternoon at half past four from the deputy , oh by the way , in fact if we had n't been talking to any Brummies on a we would 've been interviewing people and telling them that they 'd got a three year and these are all points that are gon na be brought up next week , but I do n't see there is any possibility of them doing an about turn because they 've gone public on it . |
| 4 | Fortunately the Diocesan Advisory Committee decided that Pennant Melangell Church was of such importance that they wished to promote a full scheme of repair and reordering . |
| 5 | Most people are aware , for instance , that a major link between those who suffer heart attacks is that they tend to have a high level of cholesterol in the blood . |
| 6 | The Tory led authority says they 've been so successful in collecting the tax , that they 've earmarked a hundred and seventy thousand pounds to help cut future bills . |
| 7 | He says that they 've had a three man gang picking up peoples rubbish for the last seven years . |
| 8 | I just cos when I see children like that and you know there 's nothing you can really do for them , you ca n't make up for the fact that they 've got a rotten home life and that 's top and bottom line that 's what it is ! |
| 9 | Yes , I 've just heard Alan say that they 've got a young side , and we 're similar over here , we 're playing in a good standard of football . |
| 10 | Well , the trouble is that they 've got a closed |
| 11 | I suggested to RCA in America that instead of going the normal route that they try makin' a classy but inexpensive TV ad and get it on during shows like The David Letterman Show . |
| 12 | It is strange , therefore , that in this Queen 's Speech the Government say that they intend to introduce a new Local Government Finance Bill to abolish what they did in 1987-88 . |
| 13 | Many women find , over a period of time , that they like to take a regular supplement of evening primrose oil . |
| 14 | On Jan. 17 the police also reported that they had uncovered a neo-Nazi organization , three of whose members were arrested and another six questioned on suspicion of plotting the overthrow of the government . |
| 15 | Members of the Ovens Action Group ( OAG ) claimed that they had followed a dumping truck from the Raybestos factory to the city dump , where the company had permission to dump non-toxic waste . |
| 16 | To keep the training crew occupied I sent them away to this vessel for a day 's rummage and to my pleasant surprise it was not long before they returned with the news that they had unearthed a vast cache of spirits and cigarettes in the ship 's hospital . |
| 17 | Matthew Clarke , QC , for TV Licensing , part of the Post Office , maintained that two officers who had called at Mr Guest 's house had genuinely believed that they had seen a flickering light . |
| 18 | ‘ We recognized that they were a new club , that they had obtained a good holding in a Rugby area and that the club had bright prospects , but our case was clear — Leeds were defiant , and could be defiant through one cause — fear of the papers giving away certain secrets . ’ |
| 19 | Coun leader Arthur Taylor told the full council yesterday that they had made a sensible deal with the bus companies which could save the free pass scheme . |
| 20 | Evidence that they had made a sound choice came with the £36 bill for the 6,000 mile service . |
| 21 | People from other lineages might not know of these particular marriages , but they had similar marriages of their own , similar reminders in their own genealogies that they had made a special and enduring peace with other lineages . |
| 22 | Dominic Mngomezulu and Ray Russon were released after the court found that there was no evidence to support charges that they had attended a public political meeting contrary to the state of emergency . |
| 23 | The ministers responsible for foreign economic co-operation of Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland ( known as the Visegrad Three ) , meeting in Budapest on April 17 , announced that they had formed a Central European Co-operation Committee . |
| 24 | Clients who needed money would become upset at what they considered inappropriate questioning , but this would suggest to the workers that they had touched a sensitive point , confirming some personal theory that it was not really money that the clients required . |
| 25 | It was upstairs again , and now twenty-past eight , and she was informed by her apparent new friend that they had to join a small team to clean the toilets , which meant bringing the buckets down stairs , emptying them in the larger buckets arrayed along the wall by a side door ; then wash out each utensil under a pump and return it to its particular cubicle . |
| 26 | Then she saw how the Oxo boy on the advertisement hoarding smiled and she realized that they had come a different way by a different route and that she was nearly at Mrs Parvis 's boarding house . |
| 27 | In effect , the message being sent to John and the other hostages was that they had to keep a stiff upper lip and hope that , one day , the kidnappers might let them go . |
| 28 | A Texan jury on December 20th convicted Don ‘ Big Daddy ’ Dixon for using his bank as a personal piggy-bank ; the next day prosecutors announced that they had squeezed a guilty plea from Edwin ‘ Fast Eddie ’ McBirney , who admitted to artful manipulation of deposits at Sunbelt Savings Association , the largest S&L ever to fail in Texas . |
| 29 | In January 1981 , Emsley and others reported in the Journal of the American Chemical at Society ( vol 103 , p 24 ) that they had found a new strong hydrogen bond which formed between fluoride and amides — organic salts of ammonia . |
| 30 | This means that they had had a heightened awareness of their own mortality more or less throughout the disability career . |