Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] that he [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One more thing — Matthew Choak told me that he went to Penzance on Friday night to see the film , Straw Dogs . |
| 2 | Dennis told me that he lived in North Oxford , but that was geographical hyperbole . |
| 3 | When he told me that he wanted to be an actor like Owen Jones , I was very surprised but instinctively excited and challenged . |
| 4 | Only the mouth told him that he looked on the face of his friend . |
| 5 | She told him that he had to be successful and then she made it impossible for him . |
| 6 | He told us that he expected to be posted to the front at some time in the next few weeks but he would still be home by Christmas ; an officer had told him that the bloody Huns would have been sent packing long before then . |
| 7 | They were shown round by a Père Obein whose calm wisdom and urbanity so impressed them that he remained for them a touchstone of good sense . |
| 8 | He also contrived to marry several times , on one occasion to a shrewish wench who so exasperated him that he leapt upon her and gave her such a beating that she held her peace thereafter . |