Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] that [pron] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm Anything else on page nine ? erm On Nestlé , Chief 's reminded me that we have got , I received today , a long letter from Nestlé , basically saying they wo n't be coming today . |
| 2 | Hearing about Rodney 's book has reminded me that I 've got to get down to work on mine . ’ |
| 3 | Some members of the crew had been sitting in the bows and it was only when they denied having seen her that he began to search seriously . |
| 4 | In addition their father had told them that he wanted to speak to them in his study afterwards , and although he had given no indication what chastisement he planned , they knew from the severity of his expression that he was angrier than they had ever seen him before . |
| 5 | Although Mr Salmon had already told me that we had declared war against the Germans almost a year ago — none of us having heard of Archduke Franz Ferdinand — we only found out how serious it was when a lot of young lads who had worked in the market began to disappear off to ‘ the front ’ to be replaced by their younger brothers — and sometimes even sisters . |
| 6 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 7 | Clare 's never told me that she 'd done anything with Stuart . |
| 8 | My surgeon had told me that he had taken out all he could find . |
| 9 | Many television viewers were alarmed at the Forest boss 's ageing appearance on a BBC interview this week , and Clough admitted yesterday : ‘ My wife , Barbara , has told me that I 've got uglier and older . |
| 10 | A friend has told me that you 've satirized me thoroughly in a story and spilled some confidences about my wife . |
| 11 | It has n't surprised me that it 's happened again . |
| 12 | In this one we had n't told you that you had to strip formwork , that you had to er , make the formwork , that you had to fix the steel , you had to know this from your own knowledge . |
| 13 | ‘ The receptionist at the hotel could have told you that I 'd taken a taxi to Prague railway station , ’ she offered . |
| 14 | I expect Poole has told you that I have searched London for the chemicals I need . |
| 15 | He had been there since lunchtime , and it had been while she 'd watched him that she had come to the decision that she must go . |
| 16 | Perhaps Signe had told him that we had made love . |
| 17 | The matron had told him that they had removed one of my legs and were going to have the other one off the following day . |
| 18 | I 'd told him that he had fainted , which he found fascinating . |
| 19 | In those twenty minutes , Luke had told him that he had found part-time employment at the Old Rectory , Anna had told him that his mother had found employment at a Windsor gift shop , and his mother-in-law , Laura , had telephoned to say she had landed three lines in a television commercial for an Irish stout , dressed as a pearly queen . |
| 20 | Craddock had told him that he 'd seen Rose visiting Marshall at his cottage . |
| 21 | I had told him that I had met Fairfax . |
| 22 | And who had told him that she 'd stayed late at the office ? |
| 23 | She 's told him that she 's got this other man . |
| 24 | Erm his sleeping she 's told him that she 's got this other man |
| 25 | ‘ You should have told her that we like to work together . ’ |
| 26 | Oh , why on earth had n't Luke told her that she had got it all wrong ? |
| 27 | He had told her that he had wanted her that night at the house , but he needed no words now — his body was evidence enough — and sheets of flame seemed to shoot through her as her arms wound around his neck and she arched against the demanding , hardening muscles . |
| 28 | Rex Cunningham had told her that he had seen Clare in possession of a photograph of me which had convinced him we were intimate friends . |
| 29 | It is implicit from her statement that , according to her , Mr. Steed , too , had not told her that he had appointed her to be his attorney . |
| 30 | When Matey had returned on that fateful afternoon , Dr Neil had told her that he had proposed to McAllister , and that she had accepted him . |