Example sentences of "[vb past] i that [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She told me that her other maid went mad in the spring . |
2 | ( It was at this time , I think , that she told me that her own mother , means-tested in the late twenties , had won the sympathy of the relieving officer , who ignored the presence of the saleable piano because she kept a clean house , with a cloth on the table . ) |
3 | She broke down when she told me that her little boy ( now six years old ) had asked every year to be taken to see Father Christmas in a nearby store , and every year she had had to disappoint him . |
4 | He told me that his civil servants had said that this was impossible , and adumbrated the problem to me . |
5 | He told me that his younger brother , Georges , had died aged just twelve , in Neuengamme having received fifty different injections of bacilli in medical experiments . |
6 | ‘ But father told me that my first priority was to get the farm paid for . |
7 | Then , suddenly , he relented and told me that my proposed interview with you was recorded in your desk diary , but that it had been overlooked . ’ |