Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [that] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 As things turned out , it was probably just as well that I was brought gently back to earth by Beryl , who from one of the Trust 's head offices masterminds the working holidays with military precision , advised me that the only available option was a 21-plus Acorn Project at Clumber park in Nottinghamshire .
2 I had arranged to meet them at Salima 's house , but when I got there she told me that the other two were at Ruksana 's place .
3 The other women in the cast were students , and Poole told me that the other four soldiers were part-time dancers ‘ who came in the evenings from their offices ’ .
4 Directory Enquiries told me that the British Humanist Association lived in Prince of Wales Terrace , in Kensington .
5 ‘ They also informed me that the new Social Fund computer system , to be introduced in 1993 , would automatically perform these transfers . ’
6 Although it struck him as being perfectly right and natural to tear a seven-year-old boy away from his parents and send him ‘ home ’ to be educated , it also struck him that the English public school system was iniquitous , a hotbed of beatings and buggery .
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