Example sentences of "[vb past] me that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A shop assistant promised me that a head torch would ‘ bring me down off the mountain after dark ’ . |
| 2 | It becomes a great pleasure to read this passage , another justification of those who assured me that A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland remains one of the fundamental works in the literature of travel . |
| 3 | The investigator of the SIB assured me that the evidence obtained from XYZ , written and recorded , warranted a court martial . |
| 4 | Ive checked with my other half and she assured me that the info she passed on was from Sky and not made up ! |
| 5 | The last man I had hired came with me and assured me that the girl who rode to the house was Jenna Bryant . |
| 6 | This really assured me that the plant was one of the safest . |
| 7 | English Estates are moving ahead with the development of Chatham Maritime and although Mr. Ault assured me that the plaintiff did not wish to drive the dock company away , its operation is clearly less of a godsend than in 1983 and the desire is to curtail it . |
| 8 | I have no idea how I was , although Jack and my relieved director assured me that the audience had just been coolly first-nightish and we , the cast , had stayed calm and thawed them into real pleasure and ultimate Rejoycing . |
| 9 | The usherette assured me that the manager would do something about it but he was busy just then with the projectionist , so she would pass on my complaint when he came down . |
| 10 | I was touched when my dad told me that every night he stood on the back doorstep and said goodnight to John . |
| 11 | MH : I remember somebody told me that a member of the public asked that question and was told it could be either five minutes or 40 years ! |
| 12 | Our GP told me that a drug called Dexamethazone , although in no way a cure , would probably help Nigel 's state of mind by reducing the pressure of the growth on his brain . |
| 13 | Simon told me that a school |
| 14 | Seddon also told me that a team of telephone engineers had already started work to improve the service to Foulness . |
| 15 | ‘ My father told me that a woman 's body odour was the sexiest smell in the world . ’ |
| 16 | At a bridge above the fall a friendly sign said " Keep out , private property " , while another sign told me that a bull was loose with cattle in the field I had to cross . |
| 17 | Posi then told me that a comm-call was coming in from the Famlio ship , but I told her to ignore it . |
| 18 | ( A screw told me that a prison regulation stated that there should only be two chairs for every three women . ) |
| 19 | Then he walked over and told me that a Corporal from the Foreign Legion recruiting office at Lille would come to pick me up in two hours ; until then I was free to go for a walk and get something to eat . |
| 20 | I opened the front door , and the merest sniff — choking and sulphuric — told me that a chimney was on fire , and it was n't ours . |
| 21 | You told me that the porn tape you use is a hangover from the old Inspiral Carpets . |
| 22 | Because of disquiet among ordinary members there , George Devlin , Vice-Chairman of the company , says that they wish to retain the atmosphere of a private members ' club , while delightful Chairman Michael Broke , told me that the plan is to raise standards even higher . |
| 23 | A man with a clipboard told me that the cutting of the tenons is a dangerous practice . |
| 24 | I planned an overnight stay at the Drumrunie Hotel , marked on the map and ten miles along the road , but when I tried to telephone to book a room , the operator told me that the hotel had recently been burnt down . |
| 25 | He told me that the oxygen mask had pulled away from my face some , and that I was probably just blacking out . |
| 26 | The retired milkman , from whom I had borrowed the can , told me that the dent was the result of an accident with a bicycle . |
| 27 | When I was in performance of my duties , he distinctly told me that the Prince would be poisoned . |
| 28 | I met the key officials from the Department of the Environment earlier this week and who told me that the Government is preparing to circulate a consultation paper on the National Sustainability Plan in mid June . |
| 29 | Mrs Harker , an old resident of the village and a member of the feast committee , told me that the tradition of burning Bartle has been handed down orally from one generation to the next . |
| 30 | They told me that the girl 's father had been as coy as any nineteenth-century English maiden . |