Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] them [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got your first letter to Nanking on Saturday , and had plenty of letters at Sian — I 'm not sure that I got them all , in particular I got a letter from Tom sent on March 23 , but I 'm not sure whether that 's the one you referred to , anyway I 'm grateful to you all for keeping me in touch . |
| 2 | It was precisely because the measures in the social chapter would have damaged first employment prospects and secondly our competitiveness against Japan and the United States that I found them unacceptable . |
| 3 | Well let's see that you got them right shall we ? |
| 4 | I am glad that you found them useful . |
| 5 | Prior to his arrival Sotheby 's ( still specialising heavily in books at this date ) had an unwritten agreement with Christie 's that they sent them any pictures brought to their offices and in return Christie 's sent them any books they received for sale . |
| 6 | But tutors were so impressed with the two girls ' work in textiles that they made them unconditional offers . |
| 7 | When I first acquired a cube , Conway and Roger Penrose , from Oxford University , had already solved theirs and remarked that it took them some time to realise the power of conjugation . |
| 8 | Opposition Sajudis members objected , without effect , to the timing of the election on the grounds that it gave them inadequate time for preparation . |
| 9 | Not that it did them any good . |
| 10 | When he introduced the report in the house , my right honourable friend , the member for Kingston upon Thames made is clear that he accepted them all and that the government was committed to carrying them out . |
| 11 | Libion , the kindly café proprietor , was so exasperated that he had them all thrown out . |
| 12 | Hatton was so impressed by his bad boys that he gave them colourful 1930s ‘ punk rock ’ pseudonyms — Alf Artful , Billy Dustup and Reggie Smashem — which are no more suggestive of obedience and docility than other pre-war descriptions of brawls , affrays , legless drunks , or street robbers armed with sand-bags and cut-throat razors . |
| 13 | Not that he found them conflicting , still less was he offering a comparative mythology . |
| 14 | Now , having met Madeleine again , he knew that he loved them both ! |