Example sentences of "[pers pn] that [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Was she lying , then , ’ Miss Honey said , ‘ when she told me that nobody taught her to multiply or to read ? |
| 2 | I 'll get you so you wo n't even recognise your own body but after we 've done it you 'll be grateful to me that I made you do it and you 'll enjoy it and you 'll get better at it and one day you 'll thank me for doing this to you . |
| 3 | erm it seemed so disappointing to me that I mean we go to the bother of producing what a fifty odd page telephone directory and people do n't even look at it |
| 4 | Deborah is confident and outspoken and had mentioned to me that she felt her sense of herself as ‘ not bad-looking ’ , and her lack of any real anxieties about her weight or body was largely due to her mother . |
| 5 | When I probed a bit , rather reluctantly she told me that she understood he 'd had an ‘ illness ’ , and was a regular out-patient at a local hospital . ’ |
| 6 | Nicola 's husband told me that he thought you had something to do with the murder . |
| 7 | Hanfmann describes ‘ a rather arrogant colleague ’ who ‘ told me that he knew I wrote good case histories , but had not expected me to be so good at theory ’ ( 1983 : 147 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Are you seriously telling me that you thought I proposed to you this morning ? |
| 9 | ‘ And I suppose that you will inform me that you instructed her to drink a cup with you , as well , ’ said Matey drily . |
| 10 | Tell them that we want we wan na be paid for them , and erm all we want |
| 11 | Well what do you know about them that you say they 've |
| 12 | May I remind you that I let you go ? |
| 13 | But in saying that I 'll go ahead , I 'll go ahead with what Robert said although it seems as if erm between us we picked up on a lot of things , there was some objections that Martin threw at you that I thought you handled particularly well . |
| 14 | Even trying to shield herself from him , she could feel that void in him that he wanted her to fill . |
| 15 | ‘ So I suddenly told him that I wished I had a son . |
| 16 | she say that , and she say that and she 's always writing your name over the books and everything , okay , oh yeah , you must ask him if he fancies me and love him and ask him why he do n't he phone me that often , ask him that , you must say , right yeah , but do n't tell him that I told you to ask him , yeah |
| 17 | If you can see a result If I talk to John Smith and tell him that I know he keeps riding on the pavement at you know , with no lights , it sounds minor , but the old age pensioner who keeps nearly getting missed , it 's very you know upsetting . |
| 18 | Margrida 's absence would enable her to tell him that she wished him to cut down on the pretending — and on his caresses . |
| 19 | It was on the tip of her tongue to tell him that she thought she 'd seen Amy on Friday night . |
| 20 | ‘ Then you may tell her that you ordered me to do it , ’ Theda suggested . |
| 21 | ‘ Where are you going , Rose ? ’ he asked in a tone that told her that he knew he had gone too far but she continued on her way . |
| 22 | She was as much a part of this murky landscape now as if she had been born here , every step of the way between Miss Gemma Dallam 's cloistered corner and her own — in spirit a universe apart — being so familiar to her that it seemed she had always known them , or had known them before , in another place , a dozen other places ; another life . |
| 23 | Let me be buried in lead at Claydon next to where your father proposes to lie himself , and let no stranger wind me , nor do not let me be stripped , but put a clean smock on me , and let my face be hid and do you stay in the room and see me wound and laid in the first coffin , which must be of wood if I do not die of any infectious disease , else I am so far from desiring it that I forbid you to come near me . |
| 24 | In fact she talked so much and so often about it that I feel I have been there myself . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ What is it that you want me to do , Isabel ? ’ |
| 26 | But just er , you know , clarify my thinking on it , what exactly is it that you feel you want to think about ? |
| 27 | This woman I 'd never seen , darker than me , darker than mum , my height but four times as big every other way , her hair hanging down in a big shaggy mane that looked as if she cut it herself once a year , big wooden earrings in her ears and a dress down to the floor with embroidery all over it and her feet stuffed into ugly shoes that were made of leather She told us that She wanted us to admire them , because this was a big day for her , Auntie Muriel had got dressed up to come to the city and see her sister and her sister 's child . |
| 28 | In terms of the planning petition erm as you know this er application has been referred to the Secretary of State and he has informed us that he wants us to carry through erm and consider a consideration of this and make a a recommendation er of it . |