Example sentences of "[conj] that his mother " in BNC.

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1 As a boy , he had been certain that he was adopted , or that his mother had taken a lover .
2 Nothing is known of his early life except that his mother died when he was only four .
3 He accepted that the Colonel 's look of complacent ownership had prompted Mariana 's question , and that his mother , her face unseen by her escort , who lounged at her feet on the grass , projected a sense of distance and of slight embarrassment at the relationship implied by the taking of the picture .
4 One assumes he also had a Christian name and that his mother loved him , but one thing is certain , nobody else at Binbrook did .
5 When 10-year-old Robert left his school gates , a man approached him saying that he was a family friend and that his mother had asked him to pick Robert up from school .
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