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Example sentences for "that they"

  • The short man was endeavouring to make off; however, the officer procured assistance, and both were brought to the office, where the account they gave was that they worked on canals.

  • And further to confirm what I alleged before, not only this gamester, but many more have told me that they desired no greater advantage than this bet of 7 to 6.

  • At six o'clock, accounts were so complicated, that they stopped to make up their books.

  • All I know is, that they pay me £800 a year.

  • The children must be got rid of; we'll lead them deeper into the wood this time, so that they won't be able to find their way out again.

  • After he had started nothing else was talked of at Court, and the King felt so sure that the Princess would consent that he set his people to work at pretty dresses and splendid furniture, that they might be ready by the time she came.

  • So they again sent a messenger to the thicket, and begged so prettily for the loan of the gilded porch-door of which the attorney had told them that they got it at once.

  • Therefore they took them and beat them, and besmeared them with dirt, and then put them into the cage, that they might be made a spectacle to all the men of the fair.

  • And with that his wife replied, I fear, said she, that they live in hope that some will come to relieve them, or that they have picklocks about them, by the means of which they hope to escape.

  • Mr. Ablewhite's explanation is, that they acted on blind suspicion, after seeing him accidentally speaking to Mr. Luker.

  • I expressed my opinion upon this, that they were a set of murdering thieves.

  • If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.

  • And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.

  • And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

  • The only stipulation is that they oughtn't to come under false pretences: the burglar is in honor bound not to pass himself off to his priest as the saint.

  • He recalled having heard somewhere, or read, it might be, that they were a people much given to songs and music.

  • Down by the salvage Theriere, Byrne, Bony Sawyer, Red Sanders, Blanco, and Wison were selecting the goods that they wished to carry with them.

  • He turned away so that they could no longer see his face, with the mental anguish that he knew must be writ large upon it, and commenced firing toward the natives once more.

  • Oda Yorimoto sucked in his lips and his eyes narrowed even more than nature had intended that they should.

  • The nerves are so completely and instantaneously destroyed," he explained, "that they have no time to convey a painful impression.

  • To use his own words, the weaker races were "driven by the stronger to the woods and rocks," so that they became "mere outcasts of the human race.

  • The real inwardness of it is that they are a dull race, and, like dull people despise all that they do not understand.

  • But having heard the neigh of the horse, they were so enchanted with the sound, that they tried to imitate it; and, in trying to neigh, they forgot how to sing.

  • Such may depend upon it that they will be visited once or twice at their beginning, and they must be very sharp indeed if they can prevent it.

  • The man who is misunderstood has always this advantage over his enemies, that they do not know his weak point or his plan of campaign.

  • And England and the English governing class never did call on this absurd deity of race until it seemed, for an instant, that they had no other god to call on.

  • Other people, he says, find, as time elapses, that they no longer discover those charms in certain books which attracted them so powerfully in youth.

  • It was for that reason (and also to become a model for the industry) that they did it.

  • Private service enterprises are no different in that they hard-sell services.

  • The "common sense" and "reality" that they value so highly are none other than the old customs that have been cultivated in order to make them nourish and preserve the city.

  • The traditional religions teach us not to become attached to material things, and as proof to that they tell us to make offerings.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "that they" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    drawn down; hath pleased; solar myths; that can; that could; that day; that end; that first; that from; that hour; that kingdom; that made; that nature; that occasion; that one; that part; that period; that province; that quarter; that question; that the; that town; that was; that which; that year; that you