Example sentences of "[verb] me that [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cancer has taught me that life is n't a dress rehearsal , this is it and you only get the one chance . |
| 2 | My mother told me that Dad was on one of his frequent business trips to America and would be home in a couple of days . |
| 3 | ‘ I picked it for you because Jeff told me that blue 's your favourite colour . ’ |
| 4 | One of the numerous girls in the film , Catherine Schell , told me that Lazenby was never difficult or temperamental . |
| 5 | But a friend , who arrived from Baghdad in the middle of February , informed me that morale is now high . |
| 6 | He had always told me that education was a waste of time and he could n't see the point of it . |
| 7 | Ms Hurst , who works at Unilever 's environmental engineering department in Port Sunlight , Wirral , said : ‘ The family has told me that Berend is making great strides towards a full recovery . |
| 8 | Letterman had previously told me that flashback is a device which must be used sparingly , yet now he was a plausible advocate for this treatment . |
| 9 | The next day , some well-planted flowers and a nippy little spider that jumped quite considerable chasms to get to where it wanted to go showed me that juice was still to be had for Life and , quite soon after , I found bits of myself on a train looking out at the curious modern mixture of silver birch trees growing on slag heaps . |
| 10 | During the damp November evenings when the gas lamp flickered in the wind , nothing would convince me that danger was n't lurking in the eerie shadows . |
| 11 | They tell me that Tamsin is out on a boat at an all-night party with two or three hundred other people and a stack of booze . |
| 12 | You tell me that Bill is at home and either he is drunk or he is sober . |
| 13 | ‘ The sun taught me that history is not everything . ’ |
| 14 | Their Northern Ireland president is Billy McCormick from Craigavad who tells me that membership is 200 and rising , and new recruits are always welcome . |
| 15 | Leo Lloyd was monastically devoted to his job — it is difficult for me to realise it was all done in his spare time — … he persuaded me that acting was infinitely fascinating . |
| 16 | And do n't , ’ she said with sudden vehemence , ‘ do n't tell me that suffering is part of the Almighty package . ’ |
| 17 | She had seen the film , too , and I received a letter some time later from her husband , Mr Hallows , telling me that Odette was not in the best of health and they were moving house . |
| 18 | He was still sufficiently sane to remind me that Orvieto was perched on the top of a craggy escarpment . |
| 19 | Do n't try to tell me that life is fair . |