Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [that] he was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may well have imagined when he met me that he was acquiring the means of escape from the kingdom of the past . |
| 2 | She thought of the time George Galloway had come to her home while her husband was off work with badly bruised ribs and told them that he was giving William a week 's notice . |
| 3 | This was not to last long however , for later in 1796 he wrote to all his friends and told them that he was going to live in London . |
| 4 | He told them that he was going to prepare a permanent home for them in God , the Father 's , house . |
| 5 | And er he he was having a conference in , course with dropping out of the Labour Party , the Labour Party finished with him and did n't bother and anyw he he someone I do n't know who it was , it was n't him himself but someone told me that he was looking for somebody to organize this conference in , so I said , Well I I 'll do it . |
| 6 | Leslie told me that he was considering a further transfer to the Special Air Service . |
| 7 | Gieseking once told me that he was given a new short piece to learn . |
| 8 | He told me that he was waiting for me to return . |
| 9 | Mr. Docherty told me that he was sleeping rough either in his car or in a small tent . |
| 10 | In his last message the monster told me that he was going north . |
| 11 | ‘ He never told me that he was going to do a newspaper article and I just wonder where this leaves Jason and his legal advisers now as far as an appeal goes . ’ |
| 12 | In a burst of confidence one day he told me that he was working out a new system of numerology , developed from a study of people whose lives have been well documented . |
| 13 | I got in touch with Bloom and said that I thought the guy had talent and Bloom told me that he was having a wedding anniversary party in Soho , which is in the centre of London , and to give the group £20 and see what he was like . |
| 14 | He made only 17 and 18 but so weakened himself that he was forced to pull out of the following three-day fixture in Vishakhapatnam . |
| 15 | I mean , we told you that he was planning what he called a tactful chat with the main protagonists , but I thought the idea was to lull them into a sense of false security . |
| 16 | He was challenged by the warehouseman but he assured him that he was going to pay for the goods . |
| 17 | When he was challenged by the warehouseman , he assured him that he was going to pay for the goods . |
| 18 | As he was washing , she told him that he was to go to the market for a pig . |
| 19 | These hints were followed up by many gentlemen : and I think I never saw Mr Loudon more pleased than when a highly respectable gardener once told him that he was living in a new and most comfortable cottage , which his master had built for him ; a noble marquess , who said that he should never have thought of it , but for the observations in Mr Loudon 's Gardener 's Magazine , as they made him consider whether the cottage was comfortable or not , and that , as soon as he did so , he perceived its deficiencies . |
| 20 | He was a little surprised when she said no and even more so when she told him that he was wasting the doctor 's time — there were sick people waiting for these beds . |
| 21 | One look in the mirror he kept tucked away amongst his things by the bed told him that he was looking decidedly well . |
| 22 | In the following year a BBC man who came to Bishopthorpe to have a brains trust in the house was shocked to discover that there was no television set in the house and told him that he was cut off from the experience of millions of his countrymen . |
| 23 | He then told him that he was going to go to move towards him to er to handcuff him erm this is when I f I f I believe this is the t the moment when P C P C to come into the room erm . |
| 24 | The next day Muldoon told him that he was returning to the States at the end of the month to take his enforced early retirement , after a short holiday on the Hamble . |
| 25 | He was warning her that he was going to hunt her down … and then … and then … ? |
| 26 | She had no idea what he was up to , but instinct told her that he was trying to help her , and in this case it seemed wiser to follow her instincts . |
| 27 | Leith had been at G Vasey Ltd for two months when Sebastian , with his usual exuberance , came home from his travel agent 's job and told her that he was flying off to India on Friday for a holiday . |
| 28 | Instinct told her that he was planning something for her and it might not be to her liking . |
| 29 | Pen had hung flags on the balcony of the Casa Guidi — one French , one Italian — and told her that he was paid in scudi to give to the war if he did his lessons well . |
| 30 | He told her that he was going to continue writing to her , nothing deterred by her cold reply or rather lack of a reply . |