Example sentences of "[pron] that [noun] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously it was someone that Luke knew very well . |
| 2 | I think we were near deluding ourselves that Harry had never happened , that we 'd done it all ourselves . |
| 3 | There was nothing that Constance wanted more than to look older and more sophisticated . |
| 4 | Nothing that day had seemed threatening at ‘ La Felicità ’ , until her father came panting up the stairs with his news . |
| 5 | The few words posted to the tree informed everyone that Lovat had been badly wounded and was now in hospital somewhere in England . |
| 6 | Lineker 's agent came to me and told me that Lineker wanted to go to play in Japan . |
| 7 | And you ca n't be telling me that Harry went near running water if he could help it . |
| 8 | There was a note from Lisabeth Sellotaped to my door telling me that Frank had phoned and that Salome was ‘ comfortable ’ which was heaps better than ‘ stable ’ , and he 'd talked about her being moved to town . |
| 9 | I went to the house and got no answer then the woman next door told me that Brendan came in a posh motor car . |
| 10 | He told me that you and Sophie had been there ; he also told me that Marianne had disappeared . |
| 11 | Ben told me that Carl had baited him . |
| 12 | Captain Stephen Roskill , the official naval historian , had told me that Dönitz had informed him in 1959 that he had no reason to think that the German naval codes had been broken . |
| 13 | ‘ Newman did inform me that Riverton had recently been employed by the INCUBUS organization . |
| 14 | Later that day I was the guest of Locheil 's gamekeeper , Donald Cameron , who informed me that Fiona had died three days after her admission to hospital in Inverness , ten days ago . |
| 15 | She paced up and down the tiny room while I sat on her bed , and she explained to me that McIllvanney had been approached by a client who had apparently seen Ellen and authorised McIllvanney to offer her the money . |
| 16 | Ten years later , on a visit to Burnley and practising the skills of the oral historian , I talked to my grandmother , and she , puzzled , told me that Edna had never worked in any office , had in fact been apprenticed to a dry cleaning firm that did tailoring and mending . |
| 17 | on crime reminds me that Bob told me only he does n't , he does n't know how much Bridget knows , so we must n't say anything to her , but he said that there is some possibility that she may get erm , I think April time she may be made what 's called Court Officer |
| 18 | I refer to your invoice dated 16/4/91 informing me that £10.58 had been debited from the above account for ‘ Audit Certificate Fee ’ . |
| 19 | I was so offended by her behaviour towards me that tears came to my eyes . |
| 20 | ‘ Rose , are you telling me that Isabel had hair this colour ? |
| 21 | When you told me that Stapleton had owned a school in the north of England , I checked on him and where he had come from . |
| 22 | Olivia wrote to tell me that Ivy came back ( having found , at last , a suitable flat ) and found a penitent Polonaise willing for her to stay : ‘ at a great price , but less than the South Americans ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ You did n't tell me that Francisco had hurt himself . ’ |
| 24 | I concluded from what Heather told me that Alan had taken him on for old time 's sake . ’ |
| 25 | By the same token , Edwin told me that Gifford stopped using it after his stroke . ’ |
| 26 | I have checked with our Information Services manager and he tells me that Wimpey did not take any photographs of military airfields prior to or during the war years . |
| 27 | That family is as poor as church mice , and Stair told me that Havvie had already managed to snare one Yankee heiress , but she got away , and now he has caught another — not quite so rich , but rich enough . |
| 28 | John Lahr made the point to me that Ken became a kind of scapegoat for the problems of the play . |
| 29 | At least the newspaper 's editorial columns served to remind me that Geneva had become part of Switzerland only in the previous year . |
| 30 | On several occasions , and in many places , it had surprised me that Johnson made no comment : Strichen , the planned village , in particular , and the Pictish ancestry of Forres . |