Example sentences of "[to-vb] me that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My rose-growing Surrey headmaster ( by now retired ) came to Banbury for a weekend , and as we drove off to the Cotswolds he tried to persuade me that the implication of all this was that secondary schools would no longer be a worthwhile place for teachers with academic interests : all the good work would hereafter be done within an inflated system of higher education . |
| 2 | It is further agreed that the approach adopted by the court of appeal in the case of and incorporate of nineteen eighty nine , one queens bench page eight hundred and seventy eight , is that which I should adopt , er the person which seeks to persuade me that the percentage which I should apply should be four point five percent rather than the two percent used in that case by the court of appeal , he argues partly on the basis of er , evidence by Mr an architect who er , with the greatest respect to him , whilst I feel quite sure his architectural abilities are of the highest quality , I feel that as an economist he is perhaps er not more reliable than any other economist , er but er , Mr argues that er , recent falls in house prices show that houses are not the risk free inflation proof investments which the court of appeal assumed when and was decided . |
| 3 | It used to hurt me that an African who was considered good enough to hand the cement to the man to lay the bricks could n't get the opportunity to lay the bricks himself and become a qualified tradesman . " |
| 4 | ‘ You 're not seriously going to tell me that a relationship like that just ends , when the guy still meets your mother every few weeks or so ? ’ |
| 5 | In the next record gap he came trundling into the studio to tell me that the phone call was from the bride 's stepmother . |
| 6 | People keep writing letters to the Mercury saying how can we afford to spend time and money debating this , well they can afford the time and the money employing out of work newsreaders to produce videos and writers and photographers to produce their glossy magazines , their glossy leaflets I did n't need the R S P C A or the League to tell me that er , the fox photo , this fox photo was a fake , I mean that 's obvious to anybody I did n't need them to tell me that the video was suspect , that too is obvious . |
| 7 | Later my surgeon was to tell me that the cancer had been growing away for many years . |
| 8 | ‘ And I suppose you 're going to tell me that the manner in which I was dismissed was standard procedure ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I feel that he would be extremely uncomfortable looking back at me , holding my gaze and him trying to tell me that the loss of Tim was merely the unfortunate by-product of a war against Britain . |
| 10 | ‘ I feel that he would be extremely uncomfortable looking back at me , holding my gaze and trying to tell me that the loss of Tim was merely the unfortunate by-product of a war against Britain . |
| 11 | ‘ I feel that he would be extremely uncomfortable looking back at me , holding my gaze and trying to tell me that the loss of Tim was merely the unfortunate by-product of a war against Britain . |