Example sentences of "[pers pn] [that] [pers pn] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm told me that they had a lot of or a lot a number of people ringing purporting to be someone asking for information , and they like to keep a log of these bogus phone calls , I then rang the patients mother and and told her what had happened as quickly as I could . |
| 2 | In fact , it never occurred to me that it made a difference until I was in a trial and a scout said ‘ We 're quite interested in the coloured lad ’ and that was the first time I realized they thought of me as anything other than my name . |
| 3 | I was very green and , to be honest , when Ricky McFarlane quit St Mirren it never occurred to me that I had a chance of getting the job . |
| 4 | The other day I had a visit from the ‘ music man ’ who told me that I needed a licence to play music in my shop . |
| 5 | I mean is this your is this your polite way of telling me that I need a bath . |
| 6 | LSE graduate Lesley Satchell tells me that she took a teaspoonful of oil to her arthritic grandmother Mrs Wyn Butler . |
| 7 | He told me that he made a point of seeing one pantomime a year . |
| 8 | For years afterwards my fellow pupils would remind me that he got a gong — an Air Force Medal — for teaching me to fly . |
| 9 | I became involved with him some years ago when I was consulted by Lord Rayne who told me that he had a friend — a leading paediatrician in London — whose daughter was in serious trouble . |
| 10 | ‘ His wife , ’ Theodora said hesitantly , ‘ Mrs Gray , did suggest to me that he had a problem . ’ |
| 11 | Eventually Jim Humby who was in Standard Two at school ( I was in one at this time ) told me that he had a spare . |
| 12 | Fagin drove into the cul de sac where I live , and told me that he had a permit for conducting his alleged legal trade . |
| 13 | He once told me that he found a company of not more than eleven people the most congenial . |
| 14 | My own specimen is in tropical conditions but I have seen young specimens for sale in a tank along with Sterlet and medium-sized Orandas and a retailer I know has told me that he has a customer with an extremely large ( 12″ ) Asiaticus kept in totally cold water with common Goldfish . |
| 15 | Joe also told me that he has a connection with cricket , although it is a comical one . |
| 16 | ‘ Do n't tell me that you give a damn , ’ she said , ‘ do n't tell me that I 've been anything to you but a brief interlude . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It seems to me that you enjoy a bit of detection . ’ |
| 18 | I said Well I 'm sorry you 'd better refer to my solicitor who 's told me that you need a court order . |
| 19 | It seems to me that you need a lot of courage , or a lot of something , to enter into others , into other people . |
| 20 | Er first of all you will tell them that we want a contract . |
| 21 | If they if you have n't told them that we want a banker 's order signed all right ? |
| 22 | Banker 's order they 'll use if if you have n't told them that we want a banker 's order signed . |
| 23 | If you do n't tell them that we want a banker 's order to take out the er annual payments . |
| 24 | At a meeting in January at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond , Washington with Sun vice-presidents Eric Schmidt and Carl Ledbetter , Microsoft executive Paul Apritz told them that they faced a business decision . |
| 25 | Ackroyd put the signals to red , rang the station down the line to tell them that he had a problem and then rang the next station above to alert them that he still had a train in his section . |
| 26 | If you do n't tell them that you need to pick that up and if you do n't tell them that you need a banker 's order to take the rest of the payments out |
| 27 | So where , as in Morgan , defendants claim that they believed the woman was consenting , because her husband ( who was present ) had told them that she enjoyed a struggle , their case is simply that they lacked the fault element required for the crime . |
| 28 | Tell me , how sure were you that he had a gun ? ’ |
| 29 | it is , it is You 've just , you 've just got to ask , ask his opinion , is it important to you that you get a return on the money that you invest with us , yes ? |
| 30 | And to prove it even more , I can tell you that you have a handkerchief , a whistle and a notebook with a rubber band round it in your pocket ! ’ |