Example sentences of "[pers pn] that [adj] [noun] were " in BNC.

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1 For example , it was pointed out to me that some teachers were making lesson notes for the first time in years !
2 Poole told me that some people were also shocked because John , in his role as the Devil , ‘ disguised himself as a girl in point shoes , a tutu and a blonde wig , with his devil 's horns showing through ’ .
3 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 .
4 It seems to me that these dreams were not only manifestations of hunger , but that they also evinced a desire to be normal and part of the natural world .
5 Mr Relf , present Superintendent , informed me that these works were the first of the Mid Kent Co. and this was " where it all began " .
6 Only a few girls told me that these matters were ever discussed within their families .
7 I would n't have cared to live under the rule of Fagg myself , but I ca n't say it worried me that these people were getting short rations .
8 Further to the query by Mr P. Ridgley of Oldham regarding copal varnish ( WW/June 91/p.557 ) , we would inform you that copal varnishes were manufactured from fossilised resins , mainly obtained from the Congo .
9 Another part of him — not a customs officer — told him that guilty people were dangerous , and he wondered in panic what she would do .
10 Leopold wrote resignedly , telling him that such things were inevitable for every artist of outstanding talent .
11 Louise told him that young children were n't allowed in the front of cars .
12 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 .
13 The provisional government 's relief and rehabilitation commissioner Yilma Kasaye told her that 7,000,000 Ethiopians were affected by drought and famine .
14 Why is it that these molecules were n't discovered earlier ?
15 to , to , I mean when I first had the er plaster off , which was for ten days it was , I could not believe it that these fingers were not going but I 'm told that that 's quite usual .
16 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 .
17 It seems to us that these acts were sufficient to support a finding of possession and indeed on the material before us we would be disposed to reach the same conclusion …
18 Nobody told us that these pesticides were being used , they just sprayed away , put the fruit and veg on sale — and we bought it in all innocence . ’
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