Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] that the man " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dorothea had told Florence Ames the story of Gaily in the church twice before , and neither of them was yet tired of it , Dorothea because it pleased her friend so to hear it , and Florence because it pleased her that the man had been somehow vindicated , turned out to be as good as she had thought , and a friend . |
| 2 | I assured him that the man concerned had as good or as bad claims as anyone on the List and that my remarks were not addressed to him . |
| 3 | It was when we had settled down to talk in comfortable armchairs that I told him that the man for whom I had substituted at Marlborough , in the hope of replacing him altogether , now planned to return , so that once more I should be out of a job . |
| 4 | I thought he had passed some inconsequential remark , but when the couple had walked on , Miss Senga informed me that the man had relayed a message from Master Patrick . |
| 5 | As they climbed from the back of the ambulance Rachel was met by the foreman of that particular section , who informed her that the man had fallen from the top of the jig to the second section . |
| 6 | Experience convinced her that the man who was drunk would lecture them on the futility of dying , a theme prompted by the first mention of hospices . |