Example sentences of "that they [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had made for a lively few hours but now that they 'd gone the place seemed oddly , unnaturally quiet again . |
| 2 | We ran this kind of course by asking the teachers at the beginning of the course to select some device they 'd like to make , that they 'd seen the circuit of in a in a school magazine school science review magazine , and then build that . |
| 3 | Perhaps they meant it , but he died of a fever his first winter here and it must have seemed to him that they 'd broken a promise . |
| 4 | This er , your comment that you had a good look at the figures , severely confused the merchant bankers who are advising the Mirror group as they , they did n't feel that they 'd finalized the figures themselves . |
| 5 | I think it 's very instructive that er H B F did n't deny that they 'd made a mistake on this number and just talking about old people , er the fact is that eighty five percent of deaths in the county occur to people aged over sixty five . |
| 6 | forgetting that they 'd left the heating off . |
| 7 | Not all the transactions were strictly honest , though , and sometimes customers got home to discover that they 'd bought a cat or a puppy , thus that expression and an expression bonus : ‘ letting the cat out of the bag ’ . |
| 8 | then it says to the , the apostles that they 'd approached a Mount Zion and a city of a living God , heavenly |
| 9 | We , we had a letter from the International Secretarium in August or September I think saying that they 'd changed the law and all prisoners of a certain category should have been released and our prisoners were amongst , our prisoner was amongst that list , but erm , they did n't say that they have n't got any definite news whether he had been or not , about the release . |
| 10 | We arrived at their home in Bruton , Somerset , only to find that they 'd got the date wrong and were n't prepared for us . |
| 11 | Brand told me that they 'd been friendly from way back and when I leaned on him a bit he admitted that they 'd had a thing going but it had been broken off two or three years ago . ’ |
| 12 | The problem , however , was that they kept blaming the tenants ' ’ lifestyle ’ for the dampness , refused to accept responsibility and spent unknown amounts of money treating the symptoms by using chemical washes to try and kill the fungus . |
| 13 | The willingness of the commons to grant the maltote in these years should dispose of the argument that they wished to see the tax abolished . |
| 14 | By and large , planners were associated with incomers in that they wished to control the way things were done , viz to impose rules where there were none before and to replace the old social norms by fiat instead of the usual agreement between households . |
| 15 | It appeared that they wished to have the system completed and in operation before paying further . |
| 16 | The Russians stuck firmly to the Moscow terminology of December 1945 , including the reference to trusteeship , the reason being that they wished to prevent the Americans from going back on their past support for trusteeship . |
| 17 | This criticism was in part a reflection of the call made by the Report of the Committee on Physical Deterioration for greater physical and mental education for adolescents , but it also pointed to the three main criticisms of clubs which were reiterated years later by Freeman : that they could only really provide amusement ; that their positive educational value was small ; and that they failed to reach the mass of boys . |
| 18 | The action was brought against the police on the grounds that they failed to inform the prison authorities of the deceased 's suicidal tendencies . |
| 19 | The use or significance of ‘ stills ’ and long shots in this context is that they tend to lessen the impact of the coverage , making it less attractive and exciting , thus diminishing , so the argument goes , the likelihood of imitation . |
| 20 | One disadvantage of general library skills workbooks is that they tend to teach the use of the library and its resources in isolation from other studies . |
| 21 | So relaxed in Italy , according to one anonymous wag , that they tend to build the house first and apply for planning permission later . |
| 22 | After a three-month stoppage , engineers said last week that they expected to have the plant running again in a fortnight . |
| 23 | Has it been said that they hope to repeat the experience or ? |
| 24 | Nobody else will get any unless they , they 've demonstrated that they 've met the partnership criteria . |
| 25 | They 're keeping quiet at the moment saying simply that they 've invested a lot in new technology and models , and their cars are doing well against others in the country . |
| 26 | ‘ That they 've lost a feeder . |
| 27 | And er , they were so pleased with your efforts , that they 've sent the Town Clerk some more tapes , and they 'd like a few more . |
| 28 | Or is it , is it that they 've become a sort of exclusive club , arising al almost always through the ranks of the of the law , and gradually , gradually got withdrawn from the way that ordinary people think and feel . |
| 29 | A lot of them want to just talk , to feel secure that they 've seen a policeman . |
| 30 | In Wallingford , many of the companies still in business are concerned enough about their survival , that they 've formed a business group who 's aim is to increase co-operation in the town and provide some mutual support . |