Example sentences of "[pron] that [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now you have told me that sixteen years ago you retired to Sussex for a quiet life . |
| 2 | But out of earshot of the boss , one of the workers told me that two campers had been mauled only the previous week . |
| 3 | It amuses me that eight years ago I had two homes — but I digress again . |
| 4 | Er and at the end of the quarter I could n't pay that , then obviously you got no dividend on it because you still owed them that hundred pounds , but they would take the book away so you could n't get any more . |
| 5 | So you go in a tell them that six windows are gon na cost them four and a half thousand and they go |
| 6 | And they tell you that two AS-levels are equal to an A-level when it comes to applying for university places . ’ |
| 7 | Crossing the worse danger zones was like some horrible game of ‘ Last Across ’ ; they told you that forty cuistots had got across safely since the last casualty ; you waited for the explosion , then staggered frantically over the open space , knowing that if you were No. 41 the next shell probably had your name on it . |
| 8 | He inspired the Prince , worked alongside him , coached him in the ways of business , schooled him in the art of responsible land management , encouraged him to try out new ideas , and helped turn the Duchy from a non-profit making concern into one that five years later had made net profits of £1.46 million . |
| 9 | As he stood contemplating it , as if hesitating to violate its calm , there was a moment of extraordinary silence in which even the muted roar of the traffic in the avenue was stilled and in which it seemed to him that two images , the shining façade of the house and that dusty blood-boltered room in Paddington , were held suspended out of time , then fused so that the stones were blood splattered , the caryatids dripped red . |
| 10 | The latter commented on the air raid and that he never expected to see soldiers guarding the tunnel , especially inside the tunnel for a second time , it having been guarded during World War I. The foreman told him that three soldiers had been killed near the spot that Mr Myer had been in the recess the previous night , they had apparently been run down by a train just inside the tunnel mouth . |
| 11 | The provisional government 's relief and rehabilitation commissioner Yilma Kasaye told her that 7,000,000 Ethiopians were affected by drought and famine . |
| 12 | This might seem like a horrifying amount to spend in eight months ( and it would have been a lot more were Caterham 's labour rate not a reasonable £20 an hour ) , but you have to remind yourself that five services would last the average Caterham owner until 1996 . |
| 13 | It seemed to us that two nettles had to be grasped : the first was to decide whether divorce law should attempt to remedy the ‘ injustice ’ meted out to ‘ innocent ’ spouses who are divorced against their will . |
| 14 | His pride in being able to cook three hot meals a day for two of us , on just one litre of meths in six days , was shattered when one pensioner told us that two weeks was more her time scale for such a luxurious amount of fuel . |
| 15 | A description in G.Paynes ' Collectania Cantiana tells us that four vases of black ware , one of reddish colour , two cups of imitation Samian ware , two black paterae and the neck of a large goblet with handle were found at a depth of four feet at the feet of ten human skeletons . |
| 16 | Does he know that thousands of construction workers in Wales are out of work , yet Shelter Cymru tells us that 63,000 families in the Principality have experienced homelessness in the past year ? |