Example sentences of "[pers pn] [that] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it surprises me that they took him into the Force , 'cos he 's made no secret of it an' you know yourself how they 're thought about . ’ |
| 2 | Whenever I have met him since , he has invariably reminded me that I taught him about the business ! |
| 3 | My conscience tells me that I owe it to God to be grateful to my father , who has spent his time unwearyingly upon my education , so that I may lighten his burden , look after myself and later on be able to support my sister … |
| 4 | I approached Inez , then Mrs Matthew Glynn , and she told me that she knew nothing of them . |
| 5 | ( One of the teachers whom I interviewed , and who did not comment on this question , has since told me that she used it with a class . |
| 6 | ‘ I was playing in a particular game and did not think I had done anything spectacular at all when I was approached by Heffernan who told me that he wanted me for the Ireland team to play Australia in the Compromise Rules series , ’ recalls McGilligan . |
| 7 | ‘ One evening in September , ’ he started once more , ‘ Robert told me that he found himself with nothing much to do when he had finished an afternoon lecture on the international monetary crisis . |
| 8 | Matthew did not answer at once and Wycliffe went on : ‘ When I spoke to you last you told me that you knew nothing of his intentions . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It was not so much consideration as intuition , for something tells me that you visit me with some strange intelligence . ’ |
| 10 | As I understand it , you were continuing the same metaphor when you told me that you wanted me to be a kind of groundsman . |
| 11 | Be pleased to tell them that I remember them with great kindness and great respect . |
| 12 | Acknowledge that today is Wednesday , but tell them that you bought it on Tuesday and it is bad and you want a replacement . |
| 13 | Even if I 'd told you that I heard it on the local news , I doubt you 'd have taken my word for it . |
| 14 | ‘ I can assure you that I have none of those — er-appendages . ’ |
| 15 | Nonetheless , the absence of labourers is more apparent than real : the local practice of not assessing goods of less value than £2 did not mean that any personal property owned by people of the labouring sort was generally ignored , for a good many men later taxed on wages owned goods worth anything up to £10 in 1522 , which ( unless perhaps having disposed of , say , a beast or two ) they managed to conceal from the taxman and convince him that they had nothing but the minimum in wages . |
| 16 | He asked about several crimes of violence that had happened in south-east Antrim and Beattie told him that he knew nothing about any of them . |
| 17 | He was formidable , laconic , self-disciplined , earnest but not humourless , and it was said of him that he did everything with a kind of good-natured fury . |
| 18 | ‘ Not if you want to keep your job ! ’ he snarled , and , on the brink of all-out warfare , ‘ Do you have some secret understanding with him that I know nothing of ? ’ |
| 19 | I would n't tell her that I got it from my friend , half of it , anyway . |
| 20 | I told her that I had you at work then yesterday , right , she says oh no another one , right , and ended up |
| 21 | A quick glance at him showed her that he thought nothing at all of a drive like this , clinging to the mountainside and driving much too fast . |
| 22 | She had a row with a young man named Nick Owens when they were all at the caelidhe one evening and he told her that he wanted her to be his girl and not go out with anyone else . |
| 23 | You must take my word for it that I saw it by accident . |
| 24 | We saved them , they were on about cameras and that and then we found out inserts inside it that you got it with that did n't you ? |
| 25 | Or is it that you want him to ? ’ |
| 26 | Why is it that you have everything but , there you are , there you are they 're cheap too are n't they ? |
| 27 | Indeed , ‘ so much engaged with his Collections and twenty other matters ’ was he that he left it to prince to contact his colleagues and subscribers to inform them of the ‘ results of his journey ’ . |