Example sentences of "[pers pn] [that] [pers pn] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I approached Inez , then Mrs Matthew Glynn , and she told me that she knew nothing of them . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I can assure you that I have none of those — er-appendages . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Why is it that you have everything but , there you are , there you are they 're cheap too are n't they ? |