Example sentences of "they [vb past] that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 All of them agreed that Mrs Shaw who was ‘ one of the best ’ , helped Mr Shaw tremendously with his plays .
2 Five of the twenty-seven staff who made written responses gave the book two stars for pupil popularity , i.e. ‘ very popular ’ ; two of them reported that girls had complained about ‘ having to read about male heroes ’ and that The Machine Gunners , which ‘ girls see as a boy 's book ’ , had frequently been the impetus for such comments .
3 of them believed that recession would get worse under a Labour Government , and not one of them believed that it would get better .
4 All the fathers of the early church saw the Devil as holding rights over this world , but some of them believed that God had to pay him his dues in order to win back the world .
5 Many of them believed that Eldorado 's launch in July was six months too early .
6 Neither of them believed that mankind was equal , or could ever be so , or would ever seriously wish to be so .
7 Some of them believed that NASA had arranged it all for precisely that reason .
8 It was strange to think that none of them knew that Arabella was dead ; her absence made no difference to their lives .
9 More of them thought that changes had occurred in administration , with more paperwork and more meetings being the most frequently mentioned aspects .
10 " Now then … in 1959 your husband came to the conclusion , and I am given to understand that you fully agreed , that it would be a sensible step for him to take employment for 15 months with a construction firm in Central America , in order to save the larger part of his salary Nenna protested that she had never exactly thought it sensible , it was the parting of lovers , which must always be senseless , but they 'd both of them thought that David , Panama , would be a wretched place to take small children to .
11 When they announced that Hodge was playing , this Leeds ‘ fan ’ behind me groaned and said that he hoped he 'd have his leg broken !
12 When the responses to almost 20,000 questions had been put through VGA 's computer , they revealed that men and women executives have more talents in common than most people imagine — and some considerable managerial differences too .
13 The moment they realized that Dad was in , they let me go .
14 After dinner they agreed that Rodney should not wash up .
15 They agreed that countries with fiscal and current-account deficits should reduce budget deficits and increase private savings .
16 But male compositors made it easier for them to do this , and justified the division of labour , when they agreed that women could not attain all the skills of the trade .
17 They agreed that John should let Margaret know that any intervention by her in the debate on immigration would be considered ‘ unhelpful ’ , and should extend an invitation for her to sit on the platform on the Friday afternoon for the Leader 's speech , sitting as far away from Ted Heath as it was humanly possible .
18 When they were in their room together they agreed that Sister Dew was ‘ a bit of a trial ’ and that seemed to draw them together .
19 Then they agreed that Mr Stewart should have the use of the church from twelve to two pm and the United Free Church service to begin at two o'clock .
20 Greece was obliged this spring to accept the new country 's admission to the United Nations with ‘ Macedonia ’ in its name , and the New Democracy rebels swallowed their fury when they realised that voting against the government would cause an election their party would probably lose .
21 They realised that people were sneering at them .
22 John and Joan Waters had hoped that , once they realised that Derek had the support of other members of his family , they would leave him alone .
23 They presumed that Jaq was honing his soul serenely in expectation of sacrifice .
24 Indeed they argued that girls developed sub-cultures which were more passive and marginal than those of boys and involved doing things such as sitting around in their bedrooms worshipping pop stars .
25 These " Whiggish Jacobites " , as they referred to themselves , produced a number of pamphlets in which they argued that William , through various acts of despotism , had broken the contract he had made with the nation in 1689 , and thus forfeited his right to obedience .
26 They argued that decentralization could not be divorced from the increasing pressures which industry was facing , nor indeed from deindustrialization itself : that while location factors might indicate why movement took place from area A to area B rather than from area Y to area Z ( though the technical arguments above disputed even that ) , they gave no help in explaining why there was movement in the first place .
27 Later , in their survey of new teachers in school , they argued that teachers who were insecure in their subject material adopted
28 They argued that development would eventually take the Third World through its own demographic transition to low rates of death and birth .
29 They argued that sinners were quite unable to attain salvation through their own merits or through the long process of confession , repentance , and partial purification , and that justification or redemption was obtainable only at a stroke through the gift of faith from God made possible by Christ 's sacrifice .
30 They argued that categories such as crime and mental illness ( and they could have added child abuse ) do not occur naturally , but are products of social definition .
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