Example sentences of "that they [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to PW , the jury were so confused by the end of the 11-month trial that they awarded the damages to United , rather than to SC . |
| 2 | For one thing it overlooks God 's clear part in the extraordinary events that they witnessed the previous day . |
| 3 | Bob Shepton says that they sailed the atlantic and have been up to greenland so this was what was left to do … |
| 4 | It is while at an Instructor training course at the scouts ' Longbridge centre that they met the infamous Saun Baker and started to paddle with an informal group of Thames weir bashers . |
| 5 | His lips were so thick that they met the end of his nose and so wide that they became lost in his side-whiskers . |
| 6 | One of the big troubles was the way that they obstructed the pavements as most of their drinking would be done in the street , sat with backs against the pub wall . |
| 7 | The thickness of the walls should imply that they carried the cella in the form of a tower . |
| 8 | Yeah that that used to be I 've seen on film I 've seen that you know like in Stornoway and places like that they carried the coffins |
| 9 | They were so impressed that they asked the owner whether he had any other works by Modigliani . |
| 10 | It was only when doing a post-mortem that they discovered the two small puncture marks side by side on her left buttock . |
| 11 | No civilisation under Imperial influence would have developed in such a direction ; it must be concluded therefore that they discovered the technology for themselves . ’ |
| 12 | More recently Charles Dillingham and George White had visited the Palace Theatre , London and were so impressed that they booked the Girls to appear in Good Morning Dearie , George White 's Scandals of 1923 , the Nifties of 1923 as well as all the Fred Stone promotions . |
| 13 | When the company indicated that it considered it was the fairest situation that could be achieved in the circumstances , the union representatives said that they noted the company 's position . |
| 14 | Additionally , they could be mixed with their neighbouring emotions so that they formed the secondary emotions of : submission , awe , disappointment , remorse , contempt , aggression , optimism , and love . |
| 15 | The improved neutron detector was finally ready ‘ later in the year ’ and ‘ within a few weeks ’ the results were positive enough that they formed the basis of the paper that was sent for publication on 23 March 1989 , the paper that should have been sibling to that of Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 16 | Two other daughters of the King , Princess Helen and Princess Sophie , whose arrival in Romania with relief convoys from the United Kingdom and Switzerland on April 10 had attracted widespread publicity , stated that they regretted the government 's decision . |
| 17 | The huge drops were so close together that they reflected the light , and the rain billowed and rippled like a silver-white curtain . |
| 18 | In divertissements , although it is possible that they reflected the spectacle in some way when dances were characterized , large-scale key-changes seem to have been brought in mainly for the sake of musical variety . |
| 19 | Of course it is not true for anyone that they lived the past 40 years in vain . |
| 20 | But now the ring leader Smyth Harper , 16 , has owned up that they invented the story for a laugh . |
| 21 | The most interesting aspect of the affair , however , is the very swift growth of the cult of St Edward , something which his assassins may have foreseen , if Archbishop Wulfstan is correct in saying that they burnt the corpse , presumably in an attempt to destroy remains which might become relics . |
| 22 | I enquired where they cam from and was told they were imported from Holland , only in the one size , 6–7″ ( for economic reasons ) and that they cleaned the bottom of the pond . |
| 23 | In the following year a Sussex doctor Gideon Mantell ( 1790–1852 ) found some large fossilized teeth in a pile of rocks intended for road-mending and noted that they resembled the teeth of the modern iguana . |
| 24 | Bush said , however , that he would use his executive discretion to modify or suspend US sanctions when two more of the five conditions were met ; administration officials said that they expected the freeing of political prisoners and the lifting of the state of emergency in Natal to be regarded as adequate moves . |
| 25 | ‘ It was then that they released the Wheel and it came bowling down the hill not more than ten yards from where I was standing . |
| 26 | Sometimes they were so hot that they burned the soles of our shoes . |
| 27 | So where , as in Morgan , defendants claim that they believed the woman was consenting , because her husband ( who was present ) had told them that she enjoyed a struggle , their case is simply that they lacked the fault element required for the crime . |
| 28 | One reason why some of the most energetic of antislavery activists in the 1830s resorted to the mass public meeting , the public lecture , the organisation of vast petitions and the delegate convention was that they lacked the easy personal access to ministers and administrators which an earlier generation of antislavery leaders possessed . |
| 29 | The EP was ‘ brought in ’ in response to the teachers ' perception that they lacked the skills to manage George 's behaviour . |
| 30 | Yet business lobbyists told Mr Chiles that they distrusted the state 's ability to carry out the plan . |