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 . |