Example sentences of "[vb past] us that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A quarter of a century ago , Colin Buchanan told us that road-building , improved public transport and some limitations on the use of vehicles would not aloe solve the problem of traffic in towns . |
| 2 | The Minister told us that clause 12 provided for the Secretary of State to take into account representations made by those who administer the pension scheme in question . |
| 3 | One look at the gatehouse told us that way would be suicide , so we launched a full-scale attack to distract them from you and get Guy over the wall . |
| 4 | Indeed the Next Steps Report found that : ‘ People who had recently resigned from the Civil Service told us that frustration at the lack of genuine responsibility for achieving results was a significant factor in encouraging them to move to jobs outside . ’ |
| 5 | One reviewer told us that case reports prove nothing . |
| 6 | Er cos I think you just told us that man you know |
| 7 | A few Opposition Members told us that smoking costs the national health service £437 million a year . |
| 8 | The same Wordsworth , much-mocked , thought himself back to an innocent vision , told us that grass is green and water wet because he had reached beyond familiarity to some primal wonder that these things were so and not otherwise , to some mythic sense that he was giving or finding the words for the things , not merely repeating . |
| 9 | From the man who told us that unemployment was a price well worth paying , we now have the strategy for the 1990s — ’ wait and see ’ . |
| 10 | The operator told us that rubbish is smouldering at a considerable depth and it would take a lot of work to put it out . |
| 11 | David told us that swan pattern of movement was currently being monitored in the north-east , so he was trying to read the leg bands through his glass . |
| 12 | When we arrived in Navarradonda where the body was taken , the local police assured us that ground searches had been conducted with dogs the day after Jeremy 's disappearance . |
| 13 | And that was probably why I think he showed us that banner . |
| 14 | This showed us that integration saves time and duplication , and makes the programme more interesting for the students . |
| 15 | Eadred coolly agreed , informed us that food would be sent across and bade us all a courteous good night . |
| 16 | I suppose really we learn by who sent us that evening . |
| 17 | Whenever the corps de ballet came on stage , they reminded us that tradition and dance accomplishment are very much alive and well in St Petersburg . |
| 18 | After all , Snow forcefully reminded us that science had at least an equal claim to that of the humanities in the full development of the mind of the student : they were two cultures , formally equal in status . |
| 19 | BEAUTIFUL , flexible sounds , delicately turned phrases , and the sort of energy which skips rather than strides — the King 's Consort at the Queen 's Hall reminded us that civilisation is not entirely destroyed . |
| 20 | We needed to test our resources and Jets gave us that chance . ’ |
| 21 | We were all looking for some direction in our lives and they gave us that direction . |
| 22 | ‘ It was the Tekoa pictured above which rescued us that night . |