Example sentences of "[pron] that [noun prp] had [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ben told me that Carl had baited him . |
| 2 | Captain Stephen Roskill , the official naval historian , had told me that Dönitz had informed him in 1959 that he had no reason to think that the German naval codes had been broken . |
| 3 | I concluded from what Heather told me that Alan had taken him on for old time 's sake . ’ |
| 4 | He said to me that God had given him a chance to expiate his past life , and that was what he was going to do . |
| 5 | But Terry Vaux , the WRU committeeman who resigned from the International Board because of the row , has written to clubs in his area , Gwent , informing them that Rowlands had encouraged him to attend . |
| 6 | I seemed to recall that in the past when we 'd met we 'd got on reasonably well , so I assumed that it must have been something that Jennifer had told you that had turned you against me , or , failing that , that you were just embarrassed at having to work with your sister 's ex-fiancé . ’ |
| 7 | But then she reminded herself that Miguel had entrusted her with his secret , and there was no way she could even explain her unhappiness to anyone . |
| 8 | Rachel 's heart skipped a beat at her first sight of him and if she had been trying to delude herself that David had asked her along purely for the sake of her new friends she was forced to dismiss it as his gaze met hers . |
| 9 | I told him that Jo had given me the cash , though I was suitably vague as to exactly how I recovered her lost property . |
| 10 | Gandhi was enchanted by the viceroy 's frankness , and recalled to him that Smuts had treated him with similar candour , recognizing , as he said , the justice of his claim on a certain issue , but advancing unanswerable reasons from the point of view of government why it was impossible to meet . |