Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] that [adj] " in BNC.

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1 But experience has taught me that this is the rule of thumb that can be most profitably proposed and acted upon .
2 You 've just said yourself that all I did was try the windows .
3 I have n't seen anything that all three erm may maybe that 's yet to come .
4 They 've told them that fourteen hundred jobs could go under plans for privatisation .
5 One of the guerrillas invites him to drink wine , and in no time he is completely drunk , and has told them that some lorries loaded with ammunition are coming up the road , to help in the campaign to wipe out the guerrillas .
6 Alice has told me that that is n't going to be easy for Alex to organize .
7 Now you have told me that sixteen years ago you retired to Sussex for a quiet life .
8 ‘ Each abuse reminded me that I was worthless and throughout my life events have told me that this was so . ’
9 But these people had been shot down some months ago and as the Feldwebel had told me that this was only a transit camp I knew that I was not likely to meet them here .
10 Long experience had told me that this was to be expected .
11 Does my right hon. and learned Friend accept the good news , contrary to what was said by the hon. Member for Ashfield ( Mr. Haynes ) , that although in recent times my constituency has experienced economic difficulties , so successful has my right hon. and learned Friend 's training and enterprise programme been that the Crawley and District Industries Association has told me that this is the first time during a downturn in the economy when training by companies has increased rather than decreased ?
12 He had also told me that any German who came his way would ‘ get it , ’ so I felt I must do likewise in hospital .
13 It wouldn't 've surprised me that that he could feel were an eyelash like mine was .
14 My recent visit has convinced me that that kind of solution is now dead .
15 ‘ meticulous experiments have convinced me that this ratio ( 1:100 ) between the quantity of diluent and that of the medicine being dynamized is far too low to develop the medicinal substance properly and to a high degree with a large number of succussions unless force is used …
16 The only channel I could really work with was the Clean ; Crunch and Lead developed a very hard , transistorised quality which , had I not already known differently , would have convinced me that this was a totally solid state preamp .
17 She attacked at once : ‘ I suppose she 's told you that this is no longer my home so you think you can come and go as you please .
18 Mr Charkin 's research — difficult because of the very large number of publishers in the business , most unquoted — has shown him that average profits are usually less than 5% of turnover .
19 Her brief mention of Timmy had shown him that this was the stumbling block .
20 Yesterday , in his rather large article , Mr Ford could have offered an explanation for the statement — for instance , had the CIA briefed him that eastern European communism was about to unravel ?
21 Corbett grinned back ; a Welshman had once told him that each person has an aura about him , be it good or evil , which goes out to other people .
22 Actually , he admitted in private that Sir Isidore Salmon had told him that continued support of the British Union of Fascists would mean the withdrawal of all Lyons 's advertisements from the Daily Mail , as well as any other financial inconveniences which could be arranged .
23 I have told him that COED CYMRU can have eight pages , provided he can raise a minimum of £1,000 to cover its production costs .
24 In April 1989 , Shaughnessy learned from a colleague that Juval Aviv , an Israeli-American investigator with a reputation for getting results , had told him that some of his contacts in the intelligence community had important information about the crash of Flight 103 .
25 Scott had told him that this would be possible .
26 Rees Jones says people have told him that this is a golf course for intellectuals … which means you have to think everytime you a play a shot and that 's what he set out to create
27 But , on the other hand , he had told her that this was a company flat .
28 Willis had frequently told her that these old barges , in spite of their great sails , did n't need a crew of more than two men , in fact a man and a boy could handle them easily .
29 Matey had already told her that most of the tea sold in East End grocers was collected from the leavings of the West End , dried , repacked and sold again .
30 Mr Slade 's extensive breeding programme within his flock of 400 pedigree ewes has convinced him that terminal sires do not have to be ‘ big and long ’ .
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