Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] that [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Covering her impatience , she told him that some keys similar to MacQuillan 's desk keys had been found and Ruby had been trying to divine from them the identity of their owner . |
| 2 | They told us that many customers would be ready to pay £30 more for a washing machine , say , to get it from someone who would have the payments collected weekly from their homes , simply because that fitted into the pattern of their normal use of credit . |
| 3 | He told them that many children learned more slowly . |
| 4 | It depressed him that some observers thought the debate would be used ‘ as a way of paying off some scores , real or imagined ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ It struck us that these children had n't really had a chance to see what ballet was . ’ |