Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked me that same question at the conference but , like Pontius Pilate , has not stayed to report my answer . |
| 2 | To be a good manager requires one to handle this array in such a way that education is fed and fostered — education which is provided by teachers , encouraged by parents , watched over by governors , expected to be accountable to central and local government and capable of satisfying everyone that high quality is delivered . |
| 3 | They were remarkable figures then , but almost 25 years on we beat them fairly handsomely , in a car which , although in a pretty healthy stage of tune ( probably around 350bhp ) , has nothing that any Cobra owner could n't have bought over the counter , and which is still perfectly useable on the road in small doses . |
| 4 | With great effort he averted his gaze from the sight of Sarah Morey with her family , but he promised himself that one day soon he would look upon her intimately , now that she was free once more . |
| 5 | ‘ I have to inform you that this street will be evacuated this afternoon between nineteen and twenty hundred hours . |
| 6 | It excited her and she promised herself that one day she would unravel the mystery . |
| 7 | The defendants had previously sent the shop manager a letter instructing him that these shoes were not to leave the shop without the label first being removed . |
| 8 | I phoned the kennel owner to inform her that British Rail insisted the dog wear a muzzle and that I would pay her back if she 'd buy one . |
| 9 | Family tradition — that fund of oral folklore which passes on half-garbled stories , legends and rumours to succeeding generations — has it that one Titford died as a pirate . |
| 10 | ‘ You 've been seen around London lately with both John D. Hansom and Roderick Luckey , and rumour has it that both men want to marry you . |
| 11 | Maori tradition has it that these words were spoken by chief Ngatoroirangi when he first arrived in New Zealand from Polynesia in the great Arawa canoe : I arrive where unknown earth is under my feet ; I arrive where a new sky is above me . |
| 12 | It worries us that many farmers appear to be paid for doing nothing . |
| 13 | I was impressed by a deluge of letters from the Masons which assured me that both men were entirely innocent of importing cannabis as the police alleged . |
| 14 | He told them that many children learned more slowly . |
| 15 | When he did appear through the darkness , he was in a foul mood , and told them that several bombs had failed to explode . |
| 16 | The co-ordinator told me that many people who had come to therapy groups for anxieties or depressions were now volunteer workers . |
| 17 | Hawking meanwhile , has a simple explanation for its success : ‘ Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales . |
| 18 | He told me that one factor which had greatly influenced him was her suggestion that on election day Granada should shift Coronation Street so as not to keep in many of his supporters who would otherwise be thinking of going to the polls . |
| 19 | Jamila told me that one day Anwar came into the shop and discovered Changez snoring as he sat on his stool , while in front of his closed eyes an SL was shoving a jar of herrings down his trousers . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , I remember … when I said you never talked about your parents , and you told me that one day you would tell me all about them . |
| 21 | The present owner of the rectory told me that one thing people notice when they go round the garden is that there are now no garage doors . |
| 22 | Told me that one youth was in custody and another due to appear in court for the break-ins . |
| 23 | But out of earshot of the boss , one of the workers told me that two campers had been mauled only the previous week . |
| 24 | ‘ They told me that this year they have employed a private contractor who is supposed to cut grass at least twice a month and weed once a month but its not happening , ’ he added . |
| 25 | But the wisdom of age told me that this parabola of promise would not be maintained indefinitely , but would peak and then decline . |
| 26 | Her triumphant smile told me that this time Jessica 's husband had excelled himself . |
| 27 | They told me that this sort of thing happens , it 's part of training , and to stick in there and show the buggers they were wrong . ’ |
| 28 | Her friend told me that this baby wants for nothing , it is the best dressed baby In the neighbourhood . |
| 29 | Only a few girls told me that these matters were ever discussed within their families . |
| 30 | You 're pleased about his engagement — he told me that some time ago — and you 've as good as admitted it tonight . ’ |