Example sentences of "[pron] that [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try as we might , we could not persuade ourselves that its dabchick-bill was pied . |
| 2 | Should we flatter ourselves that our descendants will find our concerns of the utmost importance ? |
| 3 | In both cases we should satisfy ourselves that our client is committed to the acquisition process and has a genuine interest in the target companies . |
| 4 | Nothing that her family could say , none of their warnings , could dissuade her . |
| 5 | ‘ Nothing that your absence would n't cure . |
| 6 | And if I tell thee that his Guavas , Pawpaws , Ginger and Lime are in such plenty that yearly he makes abundance of wet sweetmeats , of his own growth that serves his table and makes presents to his friends . |
| 7 | Thee will not think I talk figuratively when I tell thee that his pine apple stove is sixty feet long , twenty feet wide and height proportionable . |
| 8 | It occurred to me that its republication in our Symposium might both appeal to him and attract public attention : for I considered it an authoritative statement of the value of Humanism ( the title was a little misleading ) in its relation to religion . |
| 9 | Then they told me that its companion had just died — it was older — so I rather think it was depressed and lonely . |
| 10 | So it seems to me that what Williamson has shown in one particular case is clear evidence of punctuation , but no reasons at all that I can see for supposing that the mechanism of change was any other which Darwin described over a hundred years ago . |
| 11 | John was always prepared to take suggestions from his chosen dancers and also from Peggy van Praagh , who told me that her function was most often to suggest that he was attempting too much and ought to take something out . |
| 12 | She told me that her parents had been kind and loving and that , when her two younger brothers were born after the war , she had got on with them quite well apart from the normal childish disagreements . |
| 13 | There was a girl in charge of the place , a child of perhaps twelve , who told me that her name was Morag , and that her auntie had stepped out on a visit , but had said the young lady from Camus na Dobhrain might be there to use the telephone , and please to go through . |
| 14 | Would she tell me that her cousin is no thief ? ’ |
| 15 | She told me that her fiancé had been killed in the war . |
| 16 | Sheila , who had been ringing for over 20 years , told me that her father and grandfather had both been ringers . |
| 17 | She writes to tell me that her father has found a house that will be suitable for us . |
| 18 | Mollie ca n't believe her new shape and tells me that her colleagues ca n't get over the transformation either . |
| 19 | One of them is a teacher of deaf children at St Mary 's and she loved the old schoolroom at the museum and told me that her class were doing a project on Northern Ireland and she must bring them here to see it all . |
| 20 | The Princess of Wales once told me that her husband had been watching the Miss World contest , which quite surprised me . |
| 21 | Some time after this Mrs Meehan wrote to me that her husband was innocent , and asked for assistance in having his case reviewed . |
| 22 | Among friends I met here were our hosts $insert names$ who told me that her husband was making a steady recovery from his recent illness . |
| 23 | Years later , his sister-in-law Theresa told me that her husband , Henry Ware Eliot , had written to some department of the British government , presumably the Home Office , requesting them to give Eliot some sort of protection at this critical moment . |
| 24 | However , Maxine informed me that her mother had always described how she had screamed when being bathed as a tiny baby , so she doubted whether we would be able to find a specific incident which could have caused the onset of the phobia . |
| 25 | One of the survivors told me that her mother " never worked " , but it later emerged that she did go out to clean offices . |
| 26 | She tells me that her son has been influenced by some flighty little English madam to renege on his own responsibilities in order to give her a conducted tour of Copenhagen . ’ |
| 27 | One survivor told me that her apprenticeship lasted about four years and that that was normal at the time ( she started work in 1909 at 15 after an unsuccessful start in dressmaking ) . |
| 28 | It seems to me that their gender appropriateness must be reinforced in other ways . |
| 29 | Nothing puts me off more than an artist coming to me and telling me that their work sells well . |
| 30 | And it was soon made clear to me that their shopping , far from being a simple necessity , was very much a serious business . |