Example sentences of "[pers pn] that [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does the right hon. Gentleman remember that five months before the Gulf war , the Government told me that they had full confidence that Saddam Hussein was not developing nuclear weapons ? |
| 2 | They would have married sooner but had to wait for her divorce ; Pamela Chrimes told me that it took some time to obtain the evidence of adultery which was then necessary . |
| 3 | Instead , I sent him one of me that I took one weekend , with the sun coming in the window and shining on my hair . |
| 4 | He told me that he knew both individuals er that Lawrence er was an escaped prisoner . |
| 5 | I interviewed the commander of the Venetian fire service who told me that he had three boats at his dispersal and a fourth at half an hour 's readiness . |
| 6 | Mr Matthiesen informs me that he relayed this message to Sotheby 's on three separate occasions prior to the sale , but no notice was displayed . |
| 7 | So , I told them that it had new blades on but they wanted it really tight , and they wanted tightening up and that so yeah . |
| 8 | When I tell them that I spent 17 years in local government , they tell me that I was a masochist . |
| 9 | When Nenna told them that she had urgent business on the other side of London and that she would have to ask whether Martha and Tilda could stay the night , Rochester accepted without protest , and they went over , taking with them their nightdresses , Cliff records , the Cliff photograph and two packets of breakfast cereals , for they did not like the same kind . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , I know you wo n't believe me when I tell you that he doctored that fuel blend to make me look a fool , but one of the boys back in London knows ; he 's going to have my work independently checked before Jason gets home ! ’ |
| 11 | I could tell you that he had white skin , black eyes , and black hair , but you can see that from the photograph . |
| 12 | It was when I married him that we bought this house here , just to escape to at the weekends , you know . |
| 13 | He learned to use his charm , and ‘ it became ’ , his biographer says , ‘ so strong a factor in him that it resembled great beauty in a woman ’ . |
| 14 | She said of him that he had real taste with the produce and was a willing lad all round . |
| 15 | She knew perfectly well from the many Press photos of him that he preferred casual wear . |
| 16 | I told him that I had another shop in Westmead which has been approved by the Ministry of Environment and the RSPCA and that this one will be run in the same way . |
| 17 | And she was so hooked in to him that she sensed that changing of mood almost immediately , and the façade split open a little wider . |
| 18 | Prince Charles , a man who by his own admission fell in love easily , pressed his suit even though his advisers told him that she had other boyfriends . |
| 19 | I had to stop myself telling her that I had another party to go to on Christmas evening — just so I could stay home after everyone had left and stuff my face with leftovers . |
| 20 | I used to tell myself that it was because I wanted so much to believe it that I felt that way . |
| 21 | When Eberhard Bethge produced Bonhoeffer 's volumes of papers , lectures and letters in a series of Collected Works in German , Hartwell saw to it that I reviewed each volume in The Bridge as soon as it arrived . |
| 22 | She could tell by the feel of it that it had some papers inside , but she did not look at them . |
| 23 | ( One story , which entered his official state Department biography , has it that he told several students that his own rise to the position of ambassador showed what great opportunities there were for the young in Iran . |
| 24 | It was evidence of Karajan 's genius or magic or whatever we care to call it that he took enormous pains with these simple chords in order to get just the right degree of string tone with an appropriately dark colour . |
| 25 | It was at the very next stage was n't it that you had this switch from a boundary which we could accept to one which we profoundly could not accept ? |
| 26 | " I remember that year Jimmy telling us that we had black players in South Africa , that they were reasonably good and that he thought they should have the chance to become members , " Bland explained . |
| 27 | The schools were quick to point out to us that they regarded these figures for truancy as an underestimate . |
| 28 | She told us that she made some toast , but not that she ate it . |
| 29 | In The Prelude ( though one could argue that Wordsworth is writing after meeting Coleridge ) , he tells us that he felt these emotions as early |
| 30 | ‘ Eventually the doctors told us that he had black water fever or malaria , ’ remembered Joan . |