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 . |