Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adj] [noun] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They asked me personal questions that I could not even repeat here today . |
| 2 | The title , ‘ Future Shape of a People Business ’ , reinforced my own belief that we have experienced a three-stage evolutionary cycle . |
| 3 | I found her calm assumption that I needed cheering up restful after my mother 's blind denials . |
| 4 | ALTHOUGH I promised you last week that I 'd bring details of the all Ireland Schools teams competition this week , I 'm afraid that I do n't have full details to hand as yet , so I 'll hold it over to next week . |
| 5 | ALTHOUGH I promised you last week that I 'd bring details of the all Ireland Schools teams competition this week , I 'm afraid that I do n't have full details to hand as yet , so I 'll hold it over to next week . |
| 6 | She did n't mention anything to you when she phoned you last week that she got a letter from me ? |
| 7 | I would n't tell him until he assured me three times that I had the job . |
| 8 | He told me this morning that he thought the boy had been working too hard . ’ |
| 9 | Finally , speaking in a low voice , the boy said : ‘ There 's something you do n't know : dad told me this morning that he was in bed when I got home last night . ’ |
| 10 | ’ When he told me this morning that I was his prisoner , not his … not anything else , he left two Gharrgoyles to guard me . |
| 11 | He told me this week that he was convinced by West 's ‘ karate theory ’ at the time . |
| 12 | I mean in terms of population I think I somebody did er Strathclyde regional council used to be a client of mine when I was with Three M er well you know a client of my rep up here but er and they told me some time that I think a huge percentage of the whole of Scotland 's population |
| 13 | They told me last night that he had been arrested . |
| 14 | But they told their grand father that they had seen the god , and that he had taken them to the mountain-top . |
| 15 | At four o'clock , she told her new secretary that she was going home . |
| 16 | One adoptive parent told her adopted daughter that her first mother was just like the brown paper parcel the child came in . |
| 17 | He became a zealous agent of Thomas Cromwell in the Dissolution and , according to John Foxe , ‘ repented him very muche that he had made Songes to Popish Ditties in the time of his blindnes ’ and seemingly abandoned composition . |
| 18 | I told him this evening that I must have some daylight . |
| 19 | I told him last week that he looked more like a German than a Frenchman and he became very cross . ’ |
| 20 | When I told her this afternoon that I was gon na be away till maybe tomorrow morning I do n't know what I expected . |
| 21 | In 1626 he reported to the Commons on the outcome of the York House conference , at which George Villiers , first Duke of Buckingham [ q.v. ] , had declared his support for Arminianism ; and when he delivered one of the Commons charges against Buckingham in the Lords he added his own gloss that he was ‘ the principal patron of a semi-pelagian , semi-popish faction , dangerous to church and state , lately set on foot among us . ’ |
| 22 | Instead he hurriedly told his fellow directors that he had an urgent appointment to keep collapsing into the arms of his secretary when he reached his office . |
| 23 | He was a tall man with flashing eyes and a ruddy complexion , who told his young bride that he would rather live on bread and water in that north country scenery than on the fat of the land in London . |
| 24 | In spite of that claim to assistance , Montrose told his political manager that he was unwilling to recommend a candidate for presentation to another peer when he was ‘ intirely ignorant what sort of man he is ’ . |
| 25 | When he was offered the Rangers job , he told his estranged wife that there was no way he would become a sterotypical manager ‘ working all hours and driving myself crazy ’ . |
| 26 | On the day on which Saad Rashid had received the confirmation of the transaction from Switzerland , he had tidied his desk at the back of the Iraqi Airlines office , taken what few personal possessions he kept there and placed them in his briefcase , locked his door , pocketed his key , and told his assistant manager that he believed he was showing the first symptoms of the ‘ flu that was sweeping London . |
| 27 | Nonplussed , the Captain ordered a car and , after a moment 's thought , told his sleepy adjutant that he was going back to his quarters to shave and have a coffee . |
| 28 | It was an unprecedented sum for a solo album by a drummer , but Draper told his doubting colleagues that he was confident Virgin would see a return on its investment . |
| 29 | He showed Vincent a whole lot of his own studies , and told his eager listener that he ought to start painting soon . |
| 30 | He told his literary friends that their stories and poems were so awful he did n't know what to say about them or how to get through the scheduled hour . |