Example sentences of "me that in " in BNC.

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1 They told me that in four or five years , it could get worse and would get arthritic .
2 My father , a Desert Rat , tells me that in the North African campaign you never asked a man with a shovel where he was going , so I let Nat go .
3 Hierarchy in Asian joint families depends on age and sex but the Sikh women I spoke to all told me that in their families the disciplinarians and rulers were always men .
4 Now I have changed my mind : Small convinced me that in his case there was no alternative .
5 It struck me that in calling me his heavenly brother he had gone straight to the heart of all our missionary endeavours .
6 Polgar told me that in the early days of his marriage he examined the childhood of many famous persons and saw that geniuses all specialised in a field very early .
7 ‘ Well … maybe one , ’ and he goes on to tell me that in 1967 he once served the Singing Postman ( whose career was then in its ascendance , as a result of his seminal work ‘ Av yew got a light , boy ? ’ ) with a vodka and orange juice as he returned from a triumphant evening at the Ipswich Folk Club .
8 It was nice to talk over old times and Swire Sugden assured me that in future he would get a consensus before sending in the bulldozers .
9 Nearly two years later he told me that in each of those ten Crusades , people on the committees had said that , although everyone had agreed on certain tasks to be done , they only actually got cracking on them a couple of days before I was due back !
10 Imre Szász , a large , solid-framed man , pointed out to me that in Hungary the Budapest accent was , for a long time , held to be inferior because it had been debased by non-Magyar and , in particular , Jewish elements , whereas the country accents were all perfectly acceptable .
11 It is only now clear to me that in actual fact it must have been a day later .
12 Later one of the gringos in the office told me that in the book of depositions , which began at the end of January , they were already ( in the second week of April ) at page 152 , with three entries per double page .
13 As we were giving our hands he looked up at me intently and told me that in two days there would be a gypsy wedding .
14 told me that in Africa
15 It has always seemed to me that in pupils ' day to day work and more specifically in their exercise books , we have a reasonable body of evidence which can be evaluated , probably in the school , moderated , probably by other teachers and headmasters and allowed to count in some way towards the success of pupils .
16 Major Roger Crees , the present clerk to the captains , told me that in the early days of the composite bow — which is made up of two or more materials glued together — the glues were not to be relied upon .
17 Monsieur Boudin of Perrier Jouet told me that in ‘ the old days ’ the Pinot Noir of Aÿ once had a gout de terroir which , I am glad to say , has since been ‘ lost ’ .
18 She told me that in the first dreadful night , when she and John stayed in the hospital , she had tried to soothe the time by the old paper game of making words out of words .
19 Somebody told me that in England there is n't any racism .
20 Now , in the confines of The Pub From Hell , Merton , a surprisingly serious chap off-screen who tells me that in the past he 's not been wild about interviews , comes into his own .
21 And you should n't ask me — it 's a leading question and if you asked me that in court the judge would intervene and tell the recorder to strike it out !
22 Fleischmann told me that in his opinion Jones should have declared his interest to Gajewski more explicitly , not merely that he was interested in the problem , and should have informed Gajewski of his results at that time so that there would be no ambiguity about claims for priority .
23 Do not bother to write and tell me that in their culture etc , as that is really not good enough .
24 But he tempered the apprehensiveness with a shrug-of-the-shoulders-and-oh-what-the-hell attitude which told me that in his view the experience , and not the heroics of the impression he might create , was what mattered , was what he would enjoy , was what he had come for .
25 ‘ It strikes me that in new clothes you could be highly presentable .
26 ‘ Richard told me that in battle a lot of unpopular officers are killed by their own men . ’
27 Do tell me , believe me that in me you have the best audience of your life , you will never find as good an audience as me . "
28 I have never forgotten that near the end of his life my Father told me that in his loneliness Basil was the one of his five children who had given him most sympathy and understanding .
29 A former male compositor , apprenticed between the wars , told me that in his school , near Nelson 's printworks in Parkside , the foreman used to come to the top class every year and recruit " the brightest boys " .
30 Then , when we went upstairs , he says to me , Mary , he says , first time he called me that in years , Mary , why is it all my life I 've always got the timing wrong ?
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