Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [that] [pron] have [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On seeing my person , he took the opportunity to inform me that he had just that moment finalized plans to return to the United States for a period of five weeks between August and September . |
| 2 | ‘ Now , Charles , if you would calm down a moment and allow me to get a word in , I would be able to inform you that I have already negotiated just such a deal for you . ’ |
| 3 | There , in the fact that , that same evening , when I can promise you that I 've always been a most truthful man , I , to my own amazement , discovered that I was mouthing lies . ’ |
| 4 | The autumn statement contains something that I have never seen in an autumn statement before — a chart designed to show not figures showing what might happen in the economy but estimates of consumer confidence based on Gallup poll evidence . |
| 5 | Did you not think when you saw the girl in the way you found her that I had actually ruined her , as she calls it ? |
| 6 | Report has it that they have now virtually committed racial suicide , declining to accept the deplorable standards of modern literature and paper . |
| 7 | And Charles prided himself that he had never knowingly taken advantage of anyone ( anyone , that is , who did n't deserve it ) . |
| 8 | The firm 's owner assured them that he had never received a penny and was paying a large rent for his premises . |
| 9 | After the meal , Drago told them that he had recently completed a new instrument and that at midnight he and his colleagues were planning to play together , in order to invoke some ghosts . |
| 10 | They also told me that they have already held several long meetings . |
| 11 | Enthusiastically he told me that he 'd always wanted to visit Morocco , live there even , and that our hashish was the best of all . |
| 12 | Martin Fleischmann told me that he had always been puzzled by the behaviour of hydrogen in palladium . |
| 13 | He told me that he had once worked for Lipton 's Stores in London , very near my old school , Holloway Comprehensive . |
| 14 | Gerry told me that he had once run a showband , and played bass guitar . |
| 15 | He told me that he had recently been sacked from his job as a long-distance lorry driver for refusing to drive a defective and dangerous vehicle . |
| 16 | One glance at Hannah 's meadows told me that it had very real prospects because it did not have the lush , emerald green appearance of chemically fertilized land . |
| 17 | An engineering expert in stress told me that it has recently been discovered that two pieces of metal , indistinguishable unless subjected to sophisticated tests , react differently to precisely the same amount of stress . |
| 18 | The only survivor I interviewed who had not married and who had always worked , told me that she had only once been unemployed , for a period of 6 months , when she got a temporary job selling insurance . |
| 19 | A friend once told me that she had never told her husband she was Jewish . |
| 20 | I asked the dragon-lady if anyone had come in who was n't an owner or a groom , and she bridled like a thin turkey and told me that she had conscientiously checked every visitor against her list of bona fide owners , and only they had been admitted . |
| 21 | D'Alembord , contemplating how much happiness he now stood to lose , shivered with a premonition , then told himself that he had always feared the worst before every battle . |
| 22 | I told him that we had already committed ourselves to a cut of one half in our sub-strategic nuclear weapons and to smaller conventional forces . |
| 23 | They asked him how he proposed to work with Pilger and , to his surprise , told him that he had far more power than Pilger had led him to believe . |
| 24 | Now she told him that he had never understood her in any case . |
| 25 | It amazed her that she 'd ever believed herself in love with him , that she 'd deluded herself into seeing his arrogance and his egotism as positive qualities . |
| 26 | He almost told her that he had once lived a year with a girl he had married navvy-style , over the anvil , and had got her with child before she ran away from him . |
| 27 | She only liked me for my wealth , and when I , disguised as the gipsy woman , told her that I had only a little money , she and her mother lost interest in me . |
| 28 | Well yesterday apparently he told her that she had better turn up this morning cos of her excuses . |
| 29 | Then her friend told her that there had just been an earthquake , so the woman concluded that it must have been that good . |
| 30 | You 'll have to tell me if I cover anything that you 've already done . |