Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] that [det] [noun sg] " 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 | ‘ I have to inform you that this street will be evacuated this afternoon between nineteen and twenty hundred hours . |
| 3 | Hawking meanwhile , has a simple explanation for its success : ‘ Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | But the wisdom of age told me that this parabola of promise would not be maintained indefinitely , but would peak and then decline . |
| 6 | Her triumphant smile told me that this time Jessica 's husband had excelled himself . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | Her friend told me that this baby wants for nothing , it is the best dressed baby In the neighbourhood . |
| 9 | You 're pleased about his engagement — he told me that some time ago — and you 've as good as admitted it tonight . ’ |
| 10 | My Higher Self was warning me that this project , though attractive , would take me in the wrong direction , and would be a costly mistake . |
| 11 | Tod warns her that such talk is sinful . |
| 12 | A moment 's thought told him that this system worked only because two-thirds of the expected total of a Yeo Davis partnership came out at an amount well in excess of his salary , or that of any public servant of his age . |
| 13 | hours I told him that this glimpse |
| 14 | Barbara Sewart , for instance , has angina and of course her doctor told her that this diet was particularly suitable for her . |
| 15 | The matron also told us that this patient had to go into a nursing home ‘ towards the end ’ because ‘ she needed morphine injections which the doctor would n't give otherwise she would n't have had to move to somewhere strange . |
| 16 | A correspondent in Nottingham assures me that this year every police vehicle and every ambulance in the county carries on both sides a large photograph of the Chief Constable , Mr C. McLachlan , enjoining temperance . |
| 17 | He had also told me that any German who came his way would ‘ get it , ’ so I felt I must do likewise in hospital . |
| 18 | The Whips had a difficult job and were as usual a good body of men , but the accounts sent in to me showed me that each man in conducting this inquiry adopted a different emphasis according to his own character . |
| 19 | My recent visit has convinced me that that kind of solution is now dead . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 … |
| 21 | If the salesperson is convinced that the objection is the major stumbling block to the sale , he can gain commitment from the buyer by saying : ‘ If I can convince you that this model is the most economical in its class , will you buy it ? ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | We were looking forward to a meal and a quiet evening in Dover when a radio message via Dover Coastguards informed us that another suspect vessel had been spotted heading west through the Straits after sailing from Belgium where she had given the local customs a false destination in Sweden for a large consignment of spirits loaded . |
| 24 | John then continued , ‘ If any of the police again approach you or any of your colleagues-in-crime just tell them that this thing is bigger than any of you . ’ |
| 25 | At present the flysheet is vivid purple and sky blue but Ariel tell me that this tent will appear in apple green and gold for next season . |
| 26 | People I have asked tell me that this faith was austere and fanatical , that many of its adherents gave as good as any of its martyrs got . |
| 27 | I 'm usually quite clear-minded , but it was strange the way my unconscious set to work , pushing back my maternal goalposts and persuading me that another year or two would do my hoped-for child no harm . ’ |
| 28 | I can assure you that any busybody would be hard put to it to prove maltreatment ! |
| 29 | I can assure you that any information given during the interview will be treated in the strictest confidence . |
| 30 | ‘ Ah , but I need to know for sure , you see , because I have some doubts , and before you ask me why I should be so concerned I will assure you that this time it is partly for my own self-esteem that I would like to know . ’ |