Example sentences of "[that] they [verb] [verb] [art] " 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 | But then why would Mao in nineteen forty five say that how that they 'd made a major concession to land to the tiller but that this is a correct one and they 're going to , that land reform has to be taken in stages and they 're going to first of all reduce rent and , I mean er |
| 7 | forgetting that they 'd left the heating off . |
| 8 | Wonder wh well what 's that , you know , be a bang so close well it was n't till , till some time after we found out that they 'd stationed a naval gun somewhere Newtown way and they 'd f fired this gun to , as a practice . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | then it says to the , the apostles that they 'd approached a Mount Zion and a city of a living God , heavenly |
| 11 | Erm , also inclination of head towards the listener and erm erm , how did they feel that they 'd finished the erm , speaker 's intonation and a drop in volume of voice towards the end , and erm , also you 've got quite a full tags . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And er er sort of phone call one afternoon at half past four from the deputy , oh by the way , in fact if we had n't been talking to any Brummies on a we would 've been interviewing people and telling them that they 'd got a three year and these are all points that are gon na be brought up next week , but I do n't see there is any possibility of them doing an about turn because they 've gone public on it . |
| 14 | Erm which is points up a weakness there on the public relations side there I mean going back to their post share repurchase they said that they 'd got no new products in the pipeline , no research and development really sort of throwing anything up in the near future . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But I thought erm , I did n't realise that they 'd got the |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | and after just that they kept sending the wrong pieces , I mean , like they , they sent another piece to replace it , and it was it was just as bad , |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Fortunately the Diocesan Advisory Committee decided that Pennant Melangell Church was of such importance that they wished to promote a full scheme of repair and reordering . |
| 23 | It appeared that they wished to have the system completed and in operation before paying further . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Byelarus and Ukraine had stated at the Dec. 21 meeting that they wished to sign the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty . |
| 26 | On April 13 the main religious parties rejected the proposed Islamic Law bills , saying that they sought to perpetuate an interest-based economy . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Officials at the bank now admit that they failed to consider the affected population , and that more pressure could have been put on the Indian government to produce environmental plans . |
| 29 | The action was brought against the police on the grounds that they failed to inform the prison authorities of the deceased 's suicidal tendencies . |
| 30 | 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 . |