Example sentences of "that they [verb] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had stuck to his story , that they 'd quarrelled at the dance and he had left early . |
| 2 | He was telling me that they 'd died of the frost or something . |
| 3 | At dawn they ate the potatoes that they 'd laid around the fire to cook . |
| 4 | For a while they just stood there , staring down at the boar , satisfying their curiosity after the brief and distant glimpses that they 'd had on the hunt . |
| 5 | The form that they take depends upon the species of waterlily from which the variety has been derived . |
| 6 | Meeting in Budapest on March 6 the defence ministers of Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland sought to co-ordinate policy towards NATO 's North Atlantic Co-operation Council ; they committed themselves to an " open barracks " policy along similar lines to the existing " open skies " policy but stressed that they wished to act in the spirit of dialogue and consultation rather than to set up a closed grouping . |
| 7 | But I am determined to fight back , and where I think that they 've gone over the top , I 'll take them to court . |
| 8 | It shows that they 've applied for the job . |
| 9 | Anyway , that 's the letter that I have to show people that they 've recorded on the tape . |
| 10 | I 'd also like to add a great thanks to the retiring executive committee for all the hard work that they 've done during the past year . |
| 11 | British industrialists are getting agitated about an £8bn interest-free loan that they 've made to the Government . |
| 12 | where you , you get a scale response to them and we can do stats on but equally , if you get people to describe their most recent dream or describe their most erm , you know , compelling dream or , you know , a good one that they 've had in the last year or something like that , you may want to try and get that on tape or something like that erm if possible , yeah . |
| 13 | You can have it , they 're talking about the farm that they 've got at the School |
| 14 | and you mean to tell me with all that equipment the machine that they 've got at the college , you could n't get it done there ? |
| 15 | So , anybody entering the exhibition is encouraged to stand on a spot at the bottom of the stairs , and they place in the token that they 've bought at the box office , as they do so , they get flooded in light , and the special computer voice made by the university takes you through into the exhibition . |
| 16 | It 's a domestic policy , hands off right and this was one of the arguments one of those potent arguments that they 've used in the last forty years right but it 's incredibly naive because any domestic policy will have an international dimension I remember the about European Community right but it was n't for the operation of the common agricultural policy countries in the European Community would be net importers of agricultural goods as we were ten years ago bec because er of protectionism we 've now increased our self sufficiency to the point where were a net exporter of agricultural goods what implications has th does that have for international trade ? |
| 17 | He says that they try to deal with the complaints as they come in , but getting enough evidence for an arrest takes time . |
| 18 | One of the biggest attractions for fans is that they like to identify with the group ; they want to be part of The Club . |
| 19 | These so-called ‘ Less Stress Workshops ’ are designed to allow students who choose to do so to explore the coping strategies that they use to deal with the emotional issues that arise in school . |
| 20 | The women who spoke to Margaret Irwin were themselves inclined to adopt the same low value of their work that they heard expressed by the men . |
| 21 | Crucially , Realism provided a justification for the kind of foreign policy which the leaders of the USA felt that they had to undertake in the period immediately after the Second World War . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm told the front rows in the Moore tragedy were so close that they had to bend at the waist to get in ’ , said Akpata . |
| 23 | ‘ Ven ! ’ she whispered , and was barely aware that they had moved to the darkened area of her bedroom . |
| 24 | In Brightside the Unionist candidate had been specially demobilised for the election ; the Central Office agent for Yorkshire persuaded him to stand down , but it took a visit to Central Office before his supporters could be persuaded to support a Coalition Liberal that they had opposed at the last three elections . |
| 25 | They had claimed containers of worms found in their car had been dug in an unprotected area elsewhere and that they had stopped at the bay to gather mussels . |
| 26 | He denied that they had fired on the demonstrators and also claimed to have acted as an intermediary in organizing the meeting between the government and opposition on May 10-11 . |
| 27 | During the study days , the patients were fully ambulatory and could follow their preferred daily routine except that they had to return to the laboratory for their meals . |
| 28 | An essential part of all eel tanks is sliding glass covers , so these were duly closed and the eels left to themselves for the night while I hoped that they were strong enough to survive the constant stress that they had endured over the past thirty-six hours . |
| 29 | The pressure of population caused much less concern in the Welsh Border counties where there was still sufficient land available to allow poor immigrants to erect cottages on the wastes and to claim common rights to go with the few acres that they had cleared from the woods or the moors . |
| 30 | But her natural good manners got the better of her and she found herself saying ‘ good evening ’ and reminding Penelope that they had met at the vicarage . |