Example sentences of "he [verb] [pers pn] that a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told him that a mitre could be a candle-snuffer . |
| 2 | Joe met a man he had sailed with , and he told him that a ship had already been sunk by a submarine . |
| 3 | Nor did he tell him that a German was now packing up his quarters , having refused to work another day . |
| 4 | He tells me that a girlfriend of his was fishing , with her mother , from a rowing boat in the fjord near Tromsø one day . |
| 5 | He tells us that a concentration of lead in water of 50 g/litre may be regarded as an ‘ upper safe limit ’ and yet later on mentions with approval a suggested limit ( for children ) of 0.1 ug/g for lead in food . |