Example sentences of "assured [pers pn] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the girls at school assured me that unbaptised infants were sent not to hell , but to limbo . |
| 2 | He assured me that , although prone to grazing when young , once the wild gladiolus reached a certain height they were largely ignored . |
| 3 | During the Anglo-French war of 1294–8 , Edward I 's letters to his kinswomen Marie of Brabant , queen-mother of France , Jeanne of Navarre , queen of France , and Margaret of Anjou assured them that , although the kingdoms were in ‘ discord ’ , he had no quarrel whatever with them ( 12 August 1295 ) . |
| 4 | Henri Nallet , then French Agriculture Minister , apologized to his UK counterpart , John Gummer , at a meeting in Brussels on Sept. 24 and assured him that lorry drivers who had been attacked in France would be compensated . |
| 5 | When we arrived in Navarradonda where the body was taken , the local police assured us that ground searches had been conducted with dogs the day after Jeremy 's disappearance . |
| 6 | Fellow cruisers who frequently enjoy holidays at sea assured us that Royal Caribbean is by far the best cruise line to choose . |