Example sentences of "[vb past] that they [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Mrs Orton proposed that they listen to the Queen 's Speech on the radio , Bill 's only protest was to produce a bottle of brandy from his case , open one of his gift books , roll himself a cigarette with gift tobacco , lean back and stare covertly at his son . |
| 2 | On March 7 , 1990 , Cetin Emec , a leading journalist on the daily Hürriyet was killed in his car in Istanbul by gunmen who claimed that they belonged to the Turkish Islamic Commandos . |
| 3 | He claimed that they contributed to the ‘ degeneration of a once prestigious avenue ’ . |
| 4 | I guessed that they came from the execution during the second war . |
| 5 | I divined that they spoke of the woman who was on trial for her life in Geneva on the morrow . |
| 6 | FROM the birth of radio astronomy in 1932 , when Jansky discovered cosmic radio waves and established that they come from the Galactic Centre , it has been clear that something very remarkable is taking place at the core of the Milky Way . |
| 7 | Mosasaurs , when not head-butting each other , were deep-diving sea hunters , and evidence of avascular necrosis in their bone structure hinted that they suffered in the same way as did human divers — they had frequent spells of the ‘ bends ’ . |
| 8 | And these were n't any old typefaces , they were Linotype 's which meant that they conformed to the highest typographic standards the industry was likely to require . |
| 9 | He would n't let me pay that for it , he said that they had at the shop . |
| 10 | ‘ Well over one third of those questioned in our survey said that they waited for the sales to make major purchases . |
| 11 | He said that they changed between the moor gate and the end of the Alley . |
| 12 | When I asked him what those eminent shrinks did with themselves in the evenings he explained that they gathered in the hotel bar . |
| 13 | Walking back across the fields , he suggested that they stop by the lake on the way . |