Example sentences of "that they [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The night that they brought him up here . |
| 2 | B. Hunslett claims the Service Crew were the first élitist group to travel the country with the casual look , and that they brought it to the attention of the general public . |
| 3 | And to cap it all , it had to be on a case as weird as this that they sent him a Substitute Prosecutor who watched his performance with amused detachment . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | No this is the o yeah , this is the one that they sent you see ? |
| 7 | cos she , she kept saying that they owed her |
| 8 | And receiver 's and that wa , when they sold off all the business , cos they , they then pay out the money that they owed her back . |
| 9 | Yet the logic of the definition suggested that it would benefit especially kings , whose competence to declare war could not be impugned : thus Thibaud of Blois failed to persuade the monks of Marmoutier that they owed him service when he fought against Louis VI ; they claimed discretion in the matter ; and in 1184 , the mighty Philip of Alsace hesitated to commit to battle the army he had summoned against Philip Augustus , through fear that its ranks might melt away . |
| 10 | As long as you can show that they owed you a legal duty to be careful and have been negligent , damages could come your way . |
| 11 | ‘ Charles was told that they owed it to their hosts to give of their professional best , ’ a royal aide said yesterday . |
| 12 | In those early years the horrors of travel merely reminded him what a long , long way Anna was from her own country , and he used to say that they owed it to her to make up for it . |
| 13 | When he married my mother , Miss Jane Reed of Gateshead , the Reed family were so angry that they disinherited her . |
| 14 | The avowed purpose of the public schools was to produce leaders , and if we are to understand by leaders rulers capable of extracting the voluntary compliance of the ruled , we must concede that they produced them . |
| 15 | Victoria and Kay were so impressed with her rapport with the children that they asked her to work in the morning as well . |
| 16 | erm and it was so successful that they asked us again to do one from the United States |
| 17 | If I came out of the changing-room with a bin-liner round my waist and a lampshade on my head he 'd say that they suited me . |
| 18 | and th they , it was an old Indian treatment , they found it quite , sheer force of circumstances , er , that they discovered it was better sometimes to bind a wound up and leave it alone . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Not only do they hold good against the trustee himself , and against his creditors during his life-time and his representatives after his death , but also against all to whom he may have transferred the property , and who can not show that they acquired it for value and without notice of the trust . |
| 21 | They showed great skill in constructing polygonal block walling and introduced into Europe — though it is questionable that they invented it — vaulting by dressed stones . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I gathered , however , that they expected it to continue to get worse and that there was nothing they could do except give me vitamins . |
| 24 | But if a pay rise of 20 per cent was announced for town policeman tomorrow he would say only that they deserved it . |
| 25 | My guess is that , with a few exceptions , it wo n't but that in four years we 'll have another Mogg-Davidson book claiming that they got it right all along . |
| 26 | And he would make sure that they got it ! |
| 27 | One or two Conservative Members have admitted today that they now recognise that they got it wrong in 1987-88 . |
| 28 | On this particular the Government have got it right , and I am proud that they got it right . |
| 29 | Not quite enough perhaps but still enough to be an admission that they got it seriously wrong in the year before . |
| 30 | Many women I spoke to hardly bothered with a Dupatta indoors while others told me in whispers that they wore it only because their mothers-in-law insisted . |