Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] that [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The therapist did n't attempt to persuade me that I had nothing to fear ; instead , every week I sat in her calm , warm room and talked about my family , my friendships , my feelings about myself , my ambitions . |
| 2 | We will have to be very sure that we know what we 're talking about when we meet them to persuade them that we need their funds more and we can make better use of them and we hope to raise around half of that twenty five million pounds from them . |
| 3 | It was only when he started automatically to strip it that he realized what it was that was so different . |
| 4 | He rather hoped his wife would wake and catch him like this , unshaven , hair greasy and uncombed , and as he stood beside the bed he farted quite loudly , as if to remind her that she deserved someone as awful as him . |
| 5 | And he had called her by her full Greek name too , as if to remind her that he knew it . |
| 6 | He wondered , morbidly introspective in the cold light of dawn , whether his decision to see the next murder case through from the call to the scene of crime to the trial had really arisen from a desire to learn or merely from a craven wish to impress or , worse , to propitiate , his staff , to show them that he valued their skills , that he wanted to be one of the team . |
| 7 | Be pleased to tell them that I remember them with great kindness and great respect . |
| 8 | Besides , he might have no other chance to tell them that he loved them ; Miriam , too . |
| 9 | Remember also to tell them that you love them . |
| 10 | He kissed me ; it was intended to be a sealing sort of kiss to show me that he believed me and that things were going to start being all right , but the kiss altered in the middle and suddenly he pulled himself away . |
| 11 | The extreme condition of this is for someone to tell me that they loved me — few ever did — or to thank me . |
| 12 | You are not going to tell me that you like her ? |
| 13 | Dare to tell me that you see nothing there of him , that you have no feeling for the strokes of your hands , that you have no will in you to venture after him ! |
| 14 | I I th I 'm quite sure that you can go through that because you 're recognizing the patterns much more now , you 're accepting more things as , Oh yeah , you do n't need to tell me that I know it . |
| 15 | He phoned to tell me that he had it shortly after you and Nicky had left . |
| 16 | ‘ Are you going to tell me that he holds his castle for the Empress and wo n't take you back ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ They want to show you that they trust you . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ That was the way I tried to show you that I loved you , ’ Julius answered in a low voice . |
| 19 | ‘ I called to tell you that we find it necessary to remain on your grounds for a day or two . |
| 20 | Regardless of the circumstances , or how I felt , or how much I needed to tell you that I loved you ? ’ |
| 21 | Still she could not bring herself to touch him , until , turning his head , she saw the scar , and without thinking leaned forward to kiss that , a butterfly kiss like his , to show him that she loved him — and his scar . |
| 22 | The reason I am writing to Mamma is to show her that I know my duty and that I am with the deepest respect her devoted son . ’ |
| 23 | They were to tell him that I loved him … |
| 24 | All you have to do , Laura , is to tell him that you love him , ’ she 'd added , putting her arms around her old friend and giving her a hug . |
| 25 | It was on the tip of her tongue to tell him that she thought she 'd seen Amy on Friday night . |
| 26 | Margrida 's absence would enable her to tell him that she wished him to cut down on the pretending — and on his caresses . |
| 27 | She wanted to tell him that she loved him , but they were words she had never spoken to anyone . |
| 28 | He probably needs to get lost so often so that his mother will find him and remember to tell him that she loves him . |
| 29 | I was too meek to tell her that I wished I was . |
| 30 | I went to tell her that I loved her . |