Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] and [vb past] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There were a few kids who came up to meet me and said that they were n't going to vote until they heard what I had to say . ’ |
| 2 | When I first acquired a cube , Conway and Roger Penrose , from Oxford University , had already solved theirs and remarked that it took them some time to realise the power of conjugation . |
| 3 | At the morning coffee-break , one of his colleagues approached him and said that he practised acupuncture , and that he would relieve his shoulder tension for him if he wished . |
| 4 | Candy , who had a long history of violence , reported that , while he was in Reading on 22 June , an Italian named Mike , whom he knew slightly , approached him and suggested that they rob a shopkeeper in the town . |
| 5 | Howard Kendall has fined him and said that it 's all over . |
| 6 | They analysed it and found that it was mud , a piece of clay , y'know , but them not being all-forgiving , they suspected that I was using drugs , y'know , so they kicked me out of home and I went to live with my grandmother and then I had more freedom there to do as I pleased and hence started going to pop festivals and things and enjoying them and getting off on them and mixing with that whole subculture if you like . |
| 7 | A member of the Casa Alianza legal office visited them , photographed them and demanded that they be taken immediately to the Juvenile authorities in accordance with article 33 of the Juvenile Code . |
| 8 | I thereupon obtained from him the name of the solicitor instructed by Randolph , telephoned him and said that my own firm would accept service of the writ . |
| 9 | She had no wish to upset her husband , but she knew how much Stephen 's mother hated her and felt that her mother-in-law was trying to usurp her place in the baby 's affections . |
| 10 | He thanked me and said that my application would be on the table for consideration at the next meeting of the committee . |
| 11 | We thanked her and explained that we were going upriver . |
| 12 | The King thanked him and added that he died a Christian and a member of the Church of England . |
| 13 | But then when Narouz had himself raised it and indicated that he had changed his mind , it had suddenly come to seem a good idea . |
| 14 | Most people refused to believe them and said that they had been faked in Hollywood . |
| 15 | And erm the only other outstanding sponsor from last year was Northern Rock and that has been a bit of a qu a problem because er it 's , we have n't had a closing gala event which might attract them but just recently erm Paul who as you know performed last year with his band so er well er is , had rang me and said that they are doing something in Venice and they could in fact take the boat to Hull rather than to Dover and bring it here and I 'm , so I 'm working on the assumption that we might have that . |
| 16 | She also had a doctor brought in who examined me and said that I was fine . |
| 17 | She opened her eyes to the darkness , a darkness too often populated before sleep by those familiar , reproachful , childish faces , brown , black and white , bending over her , asking why she had deserted them when they loved her and thought that she had loved them . |
| 18 | He drew me into the family circle , laughing , telling his mother of my struggles , of the broken door , but when I started to take my veil off he would n't have it and insisted that I keep it on . |
| 19 | they came down with a lot o little bottles and they filled all them bottles up with the mud and they took 'em away and anal analyzed 'em and proved that it was erm human manure you see . |
| 20 | On 26th May , Hunt came to see him and said that he was taking over the purchase negotiations for the Downing Street scheme , and particularly upset Pennethorne by producing one of Pennethorne 's drawings to assist him in the work . |
| 21 | Later that week , back home , the figures regarding the water , its fall and the general layout of the land arrived , and Nigel , like God in the creation , saw them and saw that they were good . |
| 22 | She felt it and discovered that it was very soft and stretchy . |
| 23 | Any way that was it and you st and you f forked them all round and you after it was er up you was put up to do the tramping round and round and you Every forkful you took it and saw that it was laid down and tramped it round like this , round and round and round and then the next one , till it was up . |
| 24 | He met Frank , liked him and agreed that he should have the job . |
| 25 | Joe Fitzgerald was so much older and moved in a different circle , and on the few occasions that Sarah had seen him he had shown no interest in her , but she liked him and knew that he enjoyed reading and poetry as much as she did . |
| 26 | When the latter siege had ended successfully , Molla Yegan came to Mehmed II to congratulate him and remarked that his prayers had continually been with him . |
| 27 | Mandy spotted them and waved that they were all right , and Matthew turned and headed them into a safe cove , too . |
| 28 | We did get through some pretty hot language , erm he did say that this would destroy the tripartite system and he quoted me and said that I said it was a system which was the end of the world . |
| 29 | I was expecting his camels to follow him and understood that he would not come further before they were in view . |
| 30 | He said he knew the tablets would not have harmed him and admitted that he had taken them to make his wife see how much he needed her . |