Example sentences of "[vb past] me that [det] [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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | But the wisdom of age told me that this parabola of promise would not be maintained indefinitely , but would peak and then decline . |
| 5 | Her triumphant smile told me that this time Jessica 's husband had excelled himself . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Her friend told me that this baby wants for nothing , it is the best dressed baby In the neighbourhood . |
| 8 | You 're pleased about his engagement — he told me that some time ago — and you 've as good as admitted it tonight . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | It struck me that this place must be fairly normal as lodging houses go , for on the whole the lodgers did not complain . |