Example sentences of "[pers pn] that [pers pn] [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do not tell me that they are old ideas . |
| 2 | When I looked more closely , the ropes , winches and heaps of nylon netting showed me that they were superior fishing vessels . |
| 3 | It seems to me that we 're stronger fighting that together than apart and in the last few years a growing number of successful campaigns have strengthened this belief . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're telling me that it 's official Coutts policy to bounce a cheque on one of the ten biggest private companies in Britain ? ’ |
| 5 | And he 's told me that it 's first gear , right . |
| 6 | It strikes me that it is young people who are most at risk and who have most to lose . |
| 7 | The depression on the ‘ blade ’ and the overall shape suggest to me that it is some sort of agricultural implement , such as a weeding paddle or potato lifter . |
| 8 | Well , I 'd never heard this expression before and ‘ I ’ explained to me that it was another word meaning ‘ lesbian ’ . |
| 9 | I know he told me that it was some sort of favour for something he did for your father a long time ago , but what ? ’ |
| 10 | One more time my skin warms against his and reminds me that I am this person , not generic , wife of nothing . |
| 11 | For all the assurances from those around me that I was perfect Legion material , I could not accept that the prestigious French Foreign Legion would have any need of the services of somebody whose military prowess was earned more at the bar than in the field . |
| 12 | She told me that she was eight years old , the eldest of six children , when the security men came to the army camp to arrest her father , an officer in the Moroccan army , in 1972 . |
| 13 | A man I know told me that he was twenty years old before he realised that his mother really loved him . |
| 14 | ‘ So why should Simon tell me that you were three months pregnant by him ? ’ |
| 15 | I have argued with them until I am blue in the face ; have indicated to them that it is near anarchy when the profession will not meet the Cabinet minister responsible ; but I have made no impression at all . |
| 16 | Trees or buses , hoarding or dead bracken , pavements or scrub : a premonition or an intimation was coming upon him that they were all projections of another mind besides his own . |
| 17 | For my part , I told her that I was sure Aisha had a lover and we began searching for proof . |
| 18 | The signpost outside the post office told her that it was ten miles to Abbotsfield and twenty-five to Bristol . |
| 19 | They told us that they were good poachers : they never poached deer , or cut fences , or ran their dogs near in-lamb ewes . |