Example sentences of "that they [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , not precisely I , I was a bit too young then , I , I remember all the songs about her Amy wonderful Amy and all those and oh and when she married Jim I was very much in but I could n't actually say I remembered her crashing at Walsall The erm you could , yeah , when I came home from work one Monday afternoon my nan said this eighty eight had gone over very low , and we , we heard that they 'd dropped this landmine this same aircraft had dropped this landmine that had gone under the gas holder at the gas works , in Road and the , they had some rescue workers from the A R P to get it out they never even bothered calling for the Royal Engineers , but the situation was that landmines used to come down on parachutes , and they used to slide into places which were inaccessible but anyway , they relied on the local Walsall A R P to get them out . |
| 2 | But it was very premature , and I 'm very I was very sorry that they 'd taken this step , but very , very pleased when I saw the result coming out , and I 'm do congratulate them on their common sense there that they were prepared to put the opting out aside and were looking seriously and sensibly into the tertiary college consultations . |
| 3 | She was bright and she was presentable , which meant that she already scored on two counts over the help that they 'd hired last year . |
| 4 | Not that they 'd had many takers , no more than fifty , mostly scum from prison camps attracted by the offer of good food , women and money . |
| 5 | She said that they seemed to regard Asian women as ignorant and stupid people who neglected their children . |
| 6 | The taxpayers indicated that they wished to present further argument on these points . |
| 7 | The court judged that their principles , objectives and methods conformed with the sharia ( Islamic law ) and was satisfied that they sought to preserve national unity , social peace , the socialist democratic system and socialist gains in keeping with the principles of the July 1952 and May 1971 revolutions . |
| 8 | Campaigners launched a direct offensive against contemporary medical theories which talked of the inevitability of the male sexual urge , arguing that they failed to take proper account of Darwinist insights . |
| 9 | Although built on customs and habits , institutions were nevertheless the repositories of ideas of the common good ; the challenge was to avoid institutional sclerosis by ensuring that they continued to meet contemporary needs . |
| 10 | We found evidence that the electors exercised a coherent choice amongst the media sources on offer ; and that they enjoyed exercising that choice . |
| 11 | Turkish officials admitted openly that they hoped to deflect Iranian influence in the region by using television as a propaganda tool for Turkey . |
| 12 | Ted explained that they had uncovered more bones including the animal . |
| 13 | They won it for the outstanding service that they had given two clients , Comfort Cooling and PSA . |
| 14 | A Foreign Ministry official admitted that a number of small bombs had exploded on Jan. 6 , but denied that they had caused any injury or damage . |
| 15 | Although they had only had a few hours , he was happy with what the squad had uncovered from newspaper cuttings and phone-calls — not that they had detected any connection with Nicola Sharpe . |
| 16 | They surrendered at Rome airport on Aug. 30 after receiving assurances they would not be deported to Ethiopia , where they claimed that they had suffered political persecution . |
| 17 | Belfast Crown Court heard that the couple 's six-year relationship had been stormy and that they had hit each other on numerous occasions . |
| 18 | In mid-October a breakthrough seemed imminent after senior trade officials from Canada , the EC , Japan and the USA , meeting in Ontario on Oct. 17-18 , claimed that they had made substantial progress in resolving the deadlock ( responsible for the suspension of an earlier round of talks between US and EC officials in Brussels on Oct. 11-12 ) . |
| 19 | It was less than a year ago , though it seemed far longer , that they had kept each other company at Ockham House during the long bleak hours it had taken Mary Ladram to die . |
| 20 | Winston phoned me back within an hour to say that he had spoken to Harriman , that Harriman had spoken to the State Department , that they had dispatched two telegrams — one to Pretoria and one to Cape Town , the places between which the governmental functions are divided — and that in addition he himself had sent a telegram to the Prime Minister of South Africa , signed by the not unimpressive name of Winston Churchill . |
| 21 | Controversy over the recent securities scandal [ see pp. 38913 ; 38967 ; 39008 ; 39053 ; 39099 ] intensified after three foreign banks implicated in the affair admitted , in evidence before a joint parliamentary committee investigating the scandal [ see p. 39053 ] , that they had contravened Indian banking regulations . |
| 22 | Tonight , police emphatically denied that they had ignored any warnings.Chris Moore reports . |
| 23 | Pascoe did n't ask about the people , but he guessed that they had grown angry waiting for the debt to be paid . |
| 24 | But the advisers subsequently admitted that they had based this estimate solely on figures supplied by British Telecom . |
| 25 | Other UN inspectors in Baghdad have extended their stay beyond the planned departure yesterday , after saying that they had gathered fresh information on Iraq 's ballistic missile programme . |
| 26 | Consequently many students , by the final year in particular , felt that they had lost all hope of making sense of the subject or getting to grips with the work . |
| 27 | Sjahrir complained to President Truman that they had reimposed Dutch rule . |
| 28 | All three have now given 50 pints of blood each and all three were surprised that they had reached this figure at almost the same time . |
| 29 | At breakfast together Fisher exploded and attacked the Church Union and all that it stood for and said that they had done great harm and ought to apologize . |
| 30 | At the time , some people believed that the drug had changed their lives immeasurably , that they had gained profound insights into the human condition , but , by and large , the major impact of LSD was cultural . |