Example sentences of "[pron] that [pers pn] be [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 How do you know , how do I that I am a Christian ?
2 ‘ Because if you do , ’ said Owen , ‘ I will tell everyone that you are the man who receives money from Copts . ’
3 NICK FARR-JONES picked up a ball for the first time in three months and reminded everyone that he is the world 's best scrum-half .
4 It , I mean , it disappoints me that we are the country in Europe that that 's always dragged , kicking and screaming to the table , to discuss things like this , which are the benefit of the majority of the people in the in the European Community .
5 You tell me that it 's a crime to fall in love .
6 ‘ But obviously there 's something radically wrong with his knee and the signs are telling me that it is a cartilage problem .
7 When we hear of the Communist Party appealing for law and order it seems to me that it is a matter of Satan rebuking sin .
8 And er , er , the next thing I remember was er , er being picked up by somebody off this pile of bricks and the doctor told me that it was a gas , some sort of gas has come out of it which had overpowered me like , you know .
9 He told me that it was a shrine to Ban Bhāi , god of the forest .
10 He sort of agreed with me that it was a waste of an opportunity .
11 One woman told me that it was the day she was able to swim the width of the local pool after years of being afraid .
12 And it seems to me that it was an improvement of the environment to have some decent public toilets .
13 It did n't help me that I was a common-law wife for 18 years and had a child .
14 My selfconfidence had been eroded because all the time she told me that I was a failure .
15 When I tell people that I spent 10 years in the European Parliament , they tell me that I was a hedonist .
16 I remember that my chest swelled with pride the day Mrs Smelley , who owned a boarding house in the Commercial Road , told me that I was a chip off the old block and that in her opinion one day I might even be as good as my Granpa .
17 When I tell them that I spent 17 years in local government , they tell me that I was a masochist .
18 ‘ It was not Mrs Greville 's word , ’ said Sally-Anne , goaded unwisely into further indiscretion , still trying to break free , ‘ it was your handwriting — the same that told me that I was the light of your life and that you loved me dearly . ’
19 Initially , a swift , artistically rough job was contemplated , a ‘ tendentious piece ’ which would take a few months to write and would enrage ‘ the nihilists and Westerners ’ and set them ‘ howling about me that I 'm a retrograde .
20 Father O'Malley never stopped telling me that she was a saint if ever he 'd seen one .
21 The girl had told me that she was a virgin and that she was in love with me .
22 This time she told me that she was a lad called Daniel , the younger son of a schoolteacher and his wife in a small town in the south of England .
23 Fairfax tells me that he is a suitor , eager to lay claim to a girl who is now only eleven .
24 He answered : ‘ The man told me that he was a detective , and that I should say nothing about him to anyone . ’
25 The taxi driver was a sharp-looking middle-aged man who told me that he was the landlord of the Dove bar in town .
26 It seems to me that you 're a bunch of people having fun doing what you do , and I think a lot of people would like to be able to say the same .
27 ‘ From the moment they told me that you were a breech baby I knew I 'd have trouble with you . ’
28 They are making this huge investment based on their perception of us and we need to impress on them that we are a forward-looking , cost-conscious business . ’
29 Yes , but there 's no point you doing it that because it 's like , if they are a waste of space you 're not going to be able to get rid of them because you 've told them that they 're a waste of space , it needs to be something that 's much more positive , than just going round saying that .
30 It was plain to them that they were an elite .
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