Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] that he [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One more thing — Matthew Choak told me that he went to Penzance on Friday night to see the film , Straw Dogs . |
| 2 | Dennis told me that he lived in North Oxford , but that was geographical hyperbole . |
| 3 | When he told me that he wanted to be an actor like Owen Jones , I was very surprised but instinctively excited and challenged . |
| 4 | Only the mouth told him that he looked on the face of his friend . |
| 5 | She told him that he had to be successful and then she made it impossible for him . |
| 6 | He told us that he expected to be posted to the front at some time in the next few weeks but he would still be home by Christmas ; an officer had told him that the bloody Huns would have been sent packing long before then . |
| 7 | Steve has got one that he played at the last S L Os meeting , it lasts about four minutes it 's as long as the song he ai n't heavy he 's my brother . |
| 8 | He had told her that he had to be quick on the phone because his literary editor was listening to him . |
| 9 | he was right at the height of his Anthony Newley hang-up , so one problem was constantly reminding him that he sounded like Anthony Newley and trying to ‘ de-Newleyfy ’ him if you could . |
| 10 | Saibol speaks Maa in a way which tells me that he comes from the Kisongo of the Ol Doinyo Lengai , yes ? |
| 11 | I can tell you that he lived at number forty-one I think , yes forty- one if , if you know if you want any confirmation , that is correct . |
| 12 | The ‘ worrier ’ by contrast , is so concerned he might forget something that he struggles through airports with three huge suitcases and a plethora of hand baggage . |
| 13 | The Office tells us that he arranged for his sister to meet him in a nearby wood and to bring with her two of her over-dresses , one white and one grey , and his father 's rainhood . |
| 14 | The admirable Charlie , an FA vice-president , tells us that he bowed to local pressure by wearing a handsome red tie with the appropriate initials SAFC . |
| 15 | I was that busy trying to convince him that he had to er go to doctors cos I says what did they actually do ? |
| 16 | They were shown round by a Père Obein whose calm wisdom and urbanity so impressed them that he remained for them a touchstone of good sense . |
| 17 | and in Le Vilain asnier : ( And through this I wish to show you that he acts without sense or measure who , through pride , acts beyond his nature : nobody should disnature himself . ) |
| 18 | He also contrived to marry several times , on one occasion to a shrewish wench who so exasperated him that he leapt upon her and gave her such a beating that she held her peace thereafter . |