Example sentences of "[pers pn] [that] he [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard Hunt , former Keeper of Western Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library and a considerable Medieval Latinist himself , once told me that he thought Sister Penelope the best translator from Latin in her generation . |
| 2 | This old man had once told me that he left school when he was twelve , whereas I had spent most of the twenty-four years of my life in study . |
| 3 | Forster once wrote to me that he knew Ivy 's characters were good as well as clever ; they are a great deal better than anyone in his books . |
| 4 | When we stopped , he told me that he saw Jesus leading him down the path away from St Luke 's and out into the street . |
| 5 | Mr Summerchild ( who tells me that he read classics at Cambridge ) turned out to be eminently suitable in this respect . |
| 6 | ‘ He told me that he hates dancing ! |
| 7 | A senior executive of a business once told me that he had difficulty in getting women employees to realize and make known such skills in the working environment . |
| 8 | One afternoon the Governor summoned me to Government House and informed me that he had instructions to institute proceedings against Aung San for an alleged murder in the early days of the Japanese invasion of Burma , and instructed me to prepare the case to justify this to the country . |
| 9 | Nancy was telling me that he had loads of |
| 10 | It seemed to me that he needed reassurance , needed people other than Margot to believe in him . |
| 11 | And then he got , he got on the bus , it was a Midland Red and it was going to erm , er where , it was going out of town , anyway , and he shook hands with the driver , because I could n't help but , you know , notice what he was doing , and when I got when I was in the shop and getting the bread , the girls in there were telling me that he shook hands with them , because he had just got out of prison , and he was a born again Christian . |
| 12 | Lucien told them that he believed Jeopardy to be a shallow individual , an offence to the art of Vibrancy . |
| 13 | A headmaster friend told me recently that he had burst into a classroom mistakenly thinking some pupils were up to no good , only to discover it was drama ; and I recall one of my own students , in playing the role of a prisoner-of-war camp commandant berating the ‘ prisoners ’ and warning them that he had ways of finding out where the missing prisoner was if he did n't own up , was somewhat taken aback to hear the voice of the school caretaker call from the other end of the drama hall , ‘ There 's a boy here , Mr. Ainscough , skulking by this radiator ’ ! |
| 14 | It was when he was about to remove them that he saw Rose 's holdall . |
| 15 | His priority is people : it is through them that he makes profit . |
| 16 | Thomas Carter came right out and told you that he thought England was the only truly civilized country in the world and that as the most English of English cities , Oxford was its heart and soul , the core of everything that had formed us , the repository of our values and the guarantor of our standards , an expression in stone of our whole Western civilization , a cultural Stonehenge which , etc , etc . |
| 17 | The customer has told you that he wants £3000 for the car — the actual value at 57,000 miles is half that . |
| 18 | David 's father used to tell him that he believed Oswald was innocent and Paul became hooked five years ago after reading a book . |
| 19 | It could even be suggested to him that he leave Vietnam and ‘ take up once more the philosophical studies to which he had devoted a great deal of his previous life ’ , and it might also be suggested that ‘ there would be pension adequate to support him in those studies ’ . |
| 20 | He told her that he thought Terry was a prisoner of war because he had spoken to men who had returned from his Company . |
| 21 | He took two steps which brought him into contact with me : he joined the ATC Squadron , and he saw to it that he did Fire-Watch duty on my nights . |
| 22 | After a competition to create a centre-piece for the Universal Exhibition of 1889 , Eiffel 's design was selected in the face of intense opposition from Pierre-Emmanuel Tirard , then Prime Minister , Charles Garnier , architect of the Opera , the composer Gounod , writers Leconte de Lisle and Guy de Maupassant ( the last claimed to be so upset by it that he fled France ) , and more than 40 other national figures . |
| 23 | This time he showed us that he has character as well , struggling his way to a 10-8 , 9-6 , 4-9 , 5-9 , 9-2 victory over Amir Wagih . |
| 24 | John tells us that he has ambitions to do even better next year . |