Example sentences of "[that] they [verb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TWO ponies became so amorous in their horse box that they sent it plunging off a road and down a bank near Islip , Oxon , yesterday . |
| 2 | No this is the o yeah , this is the one that they sent you see ? |
| 3 | Victoria and Kay were so impressed with her rapport with the children that they asked her to work in the morning as well . |
| 4 | Some methods avoid native language explanations altogether on the grounds that such explanations can only be abstract and confusing to the learner , and that they make him spend his time not so much in learning the language but rather in learning about the language ( Mackey 1965 p 240 ) . |
| 5 | Ten minutes indoors in the small jug , and they all begin to open , sometimes so fast that they make us laugh . |
| 6 | That they make it sound as natural as breathing is something of an accomplishment . |
| 7 | ‘ and what I particularly like is the way that they make you feel so welcome . |
| 8 | The importance of these is that they make you think and help you recognise what it is that ‘ makes you tick ’ . |
| 9 | These courses , designed to provide this information , were over-subscribed and the feedback from those who attended was that they wished they had been available earlier . |
| 10 | They had declared at his accession , they had repeated often since , that they desired him to reign upon the selfsame terms as his predecessors ; and yet they made him aware , whenever it was needful to ask for a grant of money , that in fact he stood upon ground subtly changed , and must ask as a favour what had been Richard 's unquestioned right . |
| 11 | I gathered , however , that they expected it to continue to get worse and that there was nothing they could do except give me vitamins . |
| 12 | It is the ground for the faith and effective action of all men , in whatever state of life , who desire the spiritual health that they know they lack . |
| 13 | The basic stuff that they know they need , to go to the next stage . |
| 14 | Maybe , now that they know it works and if they are embold-Clare Shearer as Rosina ened , it will grow during the run into the big , bold bellylaugh it ought to be , forgetting operatic pretensions to high art and closer to situation comedy . |
| 15 | The danger is that they stop you looking . |
| 16 | Harry knew he should have felt indignation at this crude evidence of Charlie and Roy Mallender pulling strings , not to mention a certain satisfaction that they thought they needed to pull them , but all he could detect within himself was a sickening clutch of fear . |
| 17 | It had arrived quite quickly , and they had said that they thought she had a burst ulcer . |
| 18 | The thing that worried Nigel most about his son 's affairs was that they made him feel randy . |
| 19 | Since then Jim who manages the project engineer course , has spoken to Trevor , and also since then we 've had er contact from Regional Railways our major client , who have actually said that they require us to have this expertise . |
| 20 | These passions are disinterested , in the sense that they excite me to help or harm you as in yourself attractive or repulsive to me , irrespective of further advantage to myself ; they treat you not as means but as end , if only as a negative end . |
| 21 | You will see that we intend sending a leaflet to each member with the summer edition of Rural Wales , with the plea that they use it to recruit at least one new member . |
| 22 | He did n't have to scream at people to get his way ; he just told them and he knew that they knew they had better do it that way or there was gon na be trouble ! ’ |
| 23 | It showed that they were not anxious , that they knew they had a treasure . |
| 24 | So high were these prison walls , indeed , that they left you wondering at the build of the common Italian criminal . |
| 25 | ‘ The only problem is that they taught me to swear like a trooper . ’ |
| 26 | It was only after he had gone that they realized they had never asked his name or where he lived . |
| 27 | They missed a few kicks at goal but they nailed Northampton to their line and worked up such a storm that they had them scurrying all ways . |
| 28 | The value of concepts and cognitive structures is that they enable us to classify events and to make judgments and ( unlike repertoires of behaviours and lists of facts ) enable us to solve new problems . |
| 29 | The reason for the excitement in using lasers is that they enable us to study unstable nuclei , which was not previously possible . |
| 30 | The other aspect of theories is that they enable us to make generalizations . |