Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For her sister 's sake Fabia kept smiling , though her heart failed her that this lady — be she wife , housekeeper or both — knew no English . |
| 2 | His pride in being able to cook three hot meals a day for two of us , on just one litre of meths in six days , was shattered when one pensioner told us that two weeks was more her time scale for such a luxurious amount of fuel . |
| 3 | DESPITE the family rows and marriage break-ups , and the noticeable gaps in the ranks of her party guests , the 92-year-old Queen Mum 's tranquil smile and familiar wave told us that some things are unchanging . |
| 4 | The co-ordinator told me that many people who had come to therapy groups for anxieties or depressions were now volunteer workers . |
| 5 | Her friend told me that this baby wants for nothing , it is the best dressed baby In the neighbourhood . |
| 6 | Her triumphant smile told me that this time Jessica 's husband had excelled himself . |
| 7 | But the wisdom of age told me that this parabola of promise would not be maintained indefinitely , but would peak and then decline . |
| 8 | The latter commented on the air raid and that he never expected to see soldiers guarding the tunnel , especially inside the tunnel for a second time , it having been guarded during World War I. The foreman told him that three soldiers had been killed near the spot that Mr Myer had been in the recess the previous night , they had apparently been run down by a train just inside the tunnel mouth . |
| 9 | Her instinct told her that atavistic attitudes , once so popular under John Major 's predecessor , might not now be the thing . |
| 10 | A moment 's thought told him that this system worked only because two-thirds of the expected total of a Yeo Davis partnership came out at an amount well in excess of his salary , or that of any public servant of his age . |
| 11 | The present owner of the rectory told me that one thing people notice when they go round the garden is that there are now no garage doors . |
| 12 | His experience of the committee-managed Union convinced him that personal guidance was the safest way to run any enterprise . |
| 13 | Barbara Sewart , for instance , has angina and of course her doctor told her that this diet was particularly suitable for her . |
| 14 | " He used to travel in prahus as a young man , then a guru told him that one day he would die by water . |