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

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1 ‘ Y-you asked me that the first time we met . ’
2 I told them that the grand piano was two feet too short and DeFries said , ‘ Cancel the gig — no gig . ’
3 He told them that the educational psychologist was very good and really knew the children .
4 The following Spring , a still shaken Khrushchev called a group of writers to his dacha outside Moscow and told them that the Hungarian rising could have been avoided if a few writers had been shot in time .
5 Eddy himself lives in Oxford , and this morning he told me that the final piece of his Formula One jigsaw fell into place recently with a major sponsorship deal from soft drink manufacturers , Seven Up .
6 He told me that the sacred water was bottled and sold to Irishmen all over the world for its healing powers .
7 As I stumbled along , she told me that the present appearance of the castle was in part the creation of the hotel people , who had joined two separate buildings together .
8 However , Daphne told me that the tall spikes of flowers , resembling yellow lupins , last better if stem-rotting bacteria can be kept at bay .
9 He told me that the central finger always goes first , followed by the ring finger and then , if you 're lucky , the index .
10 No , she only told me that the other day yeah she is
11 Chris Morris told me that the other group had got caught in Basra because they had lost touch with reality briefly and got careless . ’
12 ‘ A friend told me that the only adjective that describes the British is ‘ opaque ’ .
13 It was enough to daunt most people , but she once told me that the only thing that dismayed her was sorting out their incredible mass of luggage , making sure that the right things went by the right route and that nothing was left behind .
14 AN OLD gentleman once told me that the two things that caused the greatest rural rows were the Church and fox-hunting .
15 When we neared the outskirts of Donegal Town , the driver told me that the former maid suspected young Mulverin of pillaging the Big House for building material .
16 For instance , we were talking about the cinema , and he told me that the average Hollywood film reaches a larger public than the Holy Scriptures .
17 He said : ‘ They told me that the worst case scenario was that his brain would swell and he would have to have an operation .
18 However , a friendly priest emerged and told me that the whole church had been built , in an old-fashioned style , in 1935 .
19 She told me that the previous year she had confided to an American friend in Rome that the two people who most fascinated her in the world were Albert Schweitzer and Herbert von Karajan ; and a year later she was sitting in an empty hall with Walter Legge , Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , and Herbert von Karajan listening to a private recital on the organ by Albert Schweitzer .
20 When I visited the Edison National Historic Site a few years ago , my guide told me that the full resources of his employer ( the United States Government ) had failed to break one ; but to find out exactly what was inside the quarter-inch slab , they had borrowed a diamond saw and cut one in half .
21 Foley , stony-faced , told him that the dirty tricks brigade , led by Charles Fraser-Smith , had turned up earlier to make a replica of the prisoner 's uniform , correct in every detail .
22 In April he told him that the next war had already started .
23 I do n't know how much of it he read , but the entry for May 20th must have galled him because it told him that the potential wage-earner had spent much of the day in playing cricket .
24 And now his experienced eye told him that the foremost ranks could be reached , but still he did not move , nor did any of the bowmen loose .
25 They advised him that the Spanish government had evidence of Italian and German intervention and urged him to supervise the non-intervention agreement more effectively .
26 In 1923 , at a Balliol gaudy , he met his old tutor , A. L. Smith [ q.v. ] , now the master , who advised him that the best cure for blindness was to have the teeth extracted .
27 The Provincial Commissioner , Philip Mitchell , then near the beginning of the career which was to culminate in the governorships of Uganda and Kenya , complimented Murrells on his anthropological acumen — and advised him that the local councils of elders should ‘ consist where possible of one man , with three or more advisers , rather than a Committee because of the notorious weakness of Committees as executive instruments ’ .
28 An argument developed because Mr Brown told her that the new chauffeur the company had just taken on could use her car while she was away , as the car that had been ordered for him had not arrived .
29 She was beginning to feel hunted , but something told her that the only defence against a man like Luke was attack .
30 ‘ Like a fool , I told her that the only reason I 'd married her was because she 'd told me she was pregnant .
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