Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] that [adj] [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 | Hawking meanwhile , has a simple explanation for its success : ‘ Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales . |
| 3 | He told me that one factor which had greatly influenced him was her suggestion that on election day Granada should shift Coronation Street so as not to keep in many of his supporters who would otherwise be thinking of going to the polls . |
| 4 | Jamila told me that one day Anwar came into the shop and discovered Changez snoring as he sat on his stool , while in front of his closed eyes an SL was shoving a jar of herrings down his trousers . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , I remember … when I said you never talked about your parents , and you told me that one day you would tell me all about them . |
| 6 | The present owner of the rectory told me that one thing people notice when they go round the garden is that there are now no garage doors . |
| 7 | Told me that one youth was in custody and another due to appear in court for the break-ins . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | But the wisdom of age told me that this parabola of promise would not be maintained indefinitely , but would peak and then decline . |
| 10 | Her triumphant smile told me that this time Jessica 's husband had excelled himself . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | Her friend told me that this baby wants for nothing , it is the best dressed baby In the neighbourhood . |
| 13 | You 're pleased about his engagement — he told me that some time ago — and you 've as good as admitted it tonight . ’ |
| 14 | " He used to travel in prahus as a young man , then a guru told him that one day he would die by water . |
| 15 | When she resumed her story her voice was different , flat and uninflected , as she told him that one day a journalist and a photographer had come to Chastlecombe to do a feature on the shopping arcade for the colour magazine of one of the Sunday papers . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | hours I told him that this glimpse |
| 18 | Also on Feb. 24 Qian had an unscheduled meeting with Takeshita when he told him that full normalization of Sino-Japanese relations could hinge on Japan 's " correct understanding of history " . |
| 19 | Barbara Sewart , for instance , has angina and of course her doctor told her that this diet was particularly suitable for her . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This decided them that more work was needed to verify whether there was indeed fusion , and so they began to plan out a detailed strategy and designed an experiment — ‘ scaling it ’ in the sense that Fleischmann had learned in his days at Imperial College . |
| 24 | I also reassured him that European Community funding arrangements are in place , ’ he said . |
| 25 | I reassured him that this warning was unnecessary : my ambition was to set the record for the slowest lap of the circuit . |
| 26 | You remember , you rushed out on Christmas Eve and got him that electric blanket … |
| 27 | For her sister 's sake Fabia kept smiling , though her heart failed her that this lady — be she wife , housekeeper or both — knew no English . |
| 28 | ‘ What you told me last night , Rachel , only convinced me that this marriage could work , ’ he said softly , and walked towards her with a look of intent in his blue eyes that sent panic rushing through her in hot waves . |
| 29 | As his chauffeur drove him back to Blue Ash Farm in the Lincoln , he decided it was love which gave her that special glow , that sparkle , that vivacity which drew the young men round her like flies . |
| 30 | It was the war itself which convinced him that economic planning by the State was necessary to prevent a return to mass unemployment . |