Example sentences of "[that] they [vb past] [verb] [det] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | This does n't mean that the others had no ‘ powers ’ , that they seemed to do little for me may have been my own lack of receptivity . |
| 5 | And if you cast your minds way back to Tuesday you will remember that what I said was that the Americans were trying to create a system of limited government er and yet one which er protected the liberties of individuals not all individuals , not black individuals especially but of individuals , this was the rhetoric of the time and the main device that they invented to do this was something called the separation of powers and they argued that , where political power is concentrated , the potential for abuse is greater so that where executive and legislative powers are held in the same hands , as they are in our system of government , the , there is more prospect of government encroaching upon the rights of individuals . |
| 6 | We found evidence that the electors exercised a coherent choice amongst the media sources on offer ; and that they enjoyed exercising that choice . |
| 7 | The then Interior Minister , Badr , on Dec. 21 accused religious extremists of having committed over 100 crimes of arson against shops and property , and attacks on mosques and churches , adding that they had turned some 25 mosques " into dens from which to launch their attacks against national security " . |
| 8 | Ted explained that they had uncovered more bones including the animal . |
| 9 | Anyway , he said that they had imposed this , and the Government could n't do anything about it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Belfast Crown Court heard that the couple 's six-year relationship had been stormy and that they had hit each other on numerous occasions . |
| 13 | they did not feel that they had made any substantial contribution to the report ; |
| 14 | The appeal committee refer especially to the personal difficulties urged by Mr. Choudhury and in the last sentence state expressly that they had balanced such personal hardships against the prejudice to efficient education mentioned in section 6(3) ( a ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Tonight , police emphatically denied that they had ignored any warnings.Chris Moore reports . |
| 17 | Other speakers seemed to be relatively exposed to standardizing mainstream influences , in that they had contracted few personal ties which were likely to exert normative pressure on their behaviour ; but in any case the geographical spread of the ties contracted by most Braniel speakers made them difficult to investigate . |
| 18 | But the advisers subsequently admitted that they had based this estimate solely on figures supplied by British Telecom . |
| 19 | It was an American teaching method that , Frank insisted , allowed students to progress through the stages of education confident that they had grasped all the basics of one stage before going on to the next . |
| 20 | It was also indicative of an air of fatalism hanging over Conservative Central Office , a feeling that they had answered all the questions on the examination paper without doing themselves justice and were now awaiting the marks with trepidation . |
| 21 | Their education , he said , was irrelevant to their duties , their poverty such that they had to spend most of their time keeping body and soul together . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | On the balance of last night 's play , Everton were entitled to feel that they had done enough to take Forest back to Goodison Park . |
| 25 | Bicker estimated that they had put some three miles between themselves and the scene of the attack . |
| 26 | ‘ Do you think they will grow here ? ’ he asked , impressed that they had come all the way from London . |
| 27 | But the fact that they had supposed this at all suggests some appreciation of cattle-raiding 's implicit purpose . |
| 28 | Amy popped her head round the door to tell Kathleen that they had found some ID on the track and the police had brought his parents in . |
| 29 | The Lord Chief Justice had said then that it would be wrong for it to appear that the proposals had the backing of the judges or that they had had any hand in their preparation ; and that it was essential that the judges remained at arm 's length . |
| 30 | But after two weeks of going back and fro to the barn they finally decided for some unknown reason that they had had enough . |