Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was so candid that , for a moment , Kelly expected him to reveal that they had had dinner together , but with the slightest hint of a cautionary glance in her direction , he merely referred to ‘ a follow-up meeting away from the office ’ . |
| 2 | I know for a fact she 's had her eye on my mother 's matinée jacket collection for years and when I once , in passing , said I wondered what happened to those old prosthetic devices in the estates of deceased senior citizens , Madge let it slip that she knew a way of turning a Zimmer frame into an attractive lamp ! ’ |
| 3 | When Hari returned she saw that Craig was standing at the window looking out into the darkness . |
| 4 | I know you were getting pissed off with Edward needling you like that , but you can tell me , surely . |
| 5 | ‘ Do n't let Barney hear you say that , ’ Melissa murmured with a faint smile . |
| 6 | When Nellie died we thought that the class would end but thanks to Elsie Simmonds with Kath Vigneux at the piano , we were able to carry on . |
| 7 | And just as she was feeling sure and secure , a smile becoming a real part of her as she gloried in the feeling growing between them , Lucy gave her to understand that she was going away for three weeks . |
| 8 | Ken said he found that one ‘ too rude ’ for his tastes . |
| 9 | But Courtney said he hoped that at least the factual part of the document would be made public . |
| 10 | Dennis said he thought that class was ‘ out of date ’ , and he preferred to judge people by their intelligence . |
| 11 | The study of the Buddha made me feel that I was in the presence of a very great religious teacher , a man of great compassion , who diagnosed man 's original trouble as greed , desire , attachment , the escape from which was the treading of the Noble Eightfold Path . |
| 12 | ‘ The problems of distribution and the various changes that we had to make to establish ourselves in Scotland made me think that if I just swung the compass I 'd land up in Paris . ’ |
| 13 | From the CECOS Report it seems that church-related activities were often the main focus of outings for girls . |
| 14 | The sense of dispossession sustained an underworld of thugs , drug pushers , and thieves ( I wanted to write about crime in Hawaii , but the godfather of the North Shore let me know that he 'd rather I did n't ) . |
| 15 | Labour candidate Peter Mandelson urged him to admit that it was his party 's policies which had created mass unemployment in the town . |
| 16 | Jack 's sister Lorraine said she knew that June had dated Don Rose around that time but no one could confirm that he was the father , or his secondary claim that he had married June before the baby was born ( he said they had separated quickly and she 'd later got a Mexican divorce , though apparently no papers are available to support his allegations ) . |
| 17 | Sir Hugh said he understood that the successes of the security forces were of little comfort to those who had suffered at the hands of terrorists . |
| 18 | Take up of set-aside and ever reducing fertiliser usage might satisfy some of the requirements of the directive in time but Mr Buchan said he hoped that farmers would take urgent note of the board 's action and start planning ahead . |
| 19 | Only when he had asked her about Katherine had he realized that something was seriously amiss . |
| 20 | Over a loudspeaker came a voice speaking Latvian , but Harvey handed me earphones that carried an English translation . |
| 21 | Observations of Freddy led them to conclude that dolphins use sonar while hunting . |
| 22 | I heard Mr say I think that it that the view of the H B F was that the county had no ra right to make reductions in migration . |
| 23 | well Mr says he discovered that after the Telegraph article and to document of the papers that relates to it that supports that , did you discover that too ? |
| 24 | Mark , the earliest Gospel , makes it sound as if Jesus does not allow divorce under any circumstance ; but Matthew modifies it to allow that some circumstances may make remarriage legitimate . |
| 25 | To neither Pound nor Yeats did it seem that Virgil had much or anything to say about this matter which so preoccupied them . |
| 26 | Erm I think er Mr said I think that that C P R E has n't actually offered a solution in this debate , just just raised questions . |
| 27 | Eric Stephen said he thought that a of method getting people into the scheme was ‘ off the rails ’ and he called for a large input of help and direction while Andrew Macfarlane said that unless the end user guaranteed a premium farming leaders could ‘ forget FASL ’ . |
| 28 | During his visit Kerrey made it known that he was campaigning for the lifting of the US economic embargo against the SOC and for increased investment and aid by US non-governmental organizations . |
| 29 | Trevor Fishlock watched him show that nice guys can be good politicians — even Prime Ministers |
| 30 | ‘ Because he believed that Charles just is n't going to make it — and the sovereign 's relationship with her heir has always been difficult — Prince Philip urged her to assert that she had no intention of stepping down from the throne , that she must and will remain for the duration . ’ |