Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb past] [pers pn] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was most solicitous ( scheming bitch ! ) so he told her that his wife was cured and they went back to the same old routine . |
| 2 | ‘ But once he told me that he was n't about to change and that he was likely to be a lifetime philanderer , I saw red and thought , ‘ Screw you ! |
| 3 | She realised at once that he could be forgiven if he reminded her that she had n't been too sugary herself during that phone call : but he did nothing of the kind , though he did allow himself a small smirk before all trace of a smile went from him . |
| 4 | The estrangement became even more profound when he told them that he was gay . |
| 5 | The second er reason which he gave me , of course I should have thought for myself , he said , but the accountants more accurately represented the human form than did the rats , so that was a clear one to him , but it was the third one that really floored me , when he told me that their staff had been getting really attached to the rats . |
| 6 | When he told me that he had inherited the cardinal 's robes of his predecessor , Cardinal Heenan , and I asked if they fitted , he said , ‘ No . |
| 7 | When he told me that he wanted to be an actor like Owen Jones , I was very surprised but instinctively excited and challenged . |
| 8 | Only when he told her that he intended leaving that evening did he feel her hand tighten in his . |
| 9 | He had told Merymose nothing of his thoughts about Ipuky and Reni — sensing the policeman 's disappointment and mistrust when he told him that he had been able to find out no more than he had himself . |
| 10 | Does the Minister agree with the figure given by the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the Dispatch Box when he told us that there would be 40,000 mortgage rescues this year ? |
| 11 | He may well have imagined when he met me that he was acquiring the means of escape from the kingdom of the past . |
| 12 | To a young doctor like myself , these were my ‘ valuables ’ — the Zeiss Ikon microscope in the scuffed leather case , its precious lenses protected from dust by silk covers ; the glass-lidded box of stainless-steel instruments — retractors , forceps , hooks , scissors and needles ; my much-thumbed copy of that heavy-going but essential tome , Gray 's Anatomy ; manuals of pharmacology and pharmacy ; Belding 's Textbook of Clinical Parasitology and Strong 's Prevention and Treatment of Tropical Diseases , both of which I 'd bought at the last minute in the hope that the young man in John Bell & Croyden in Wigmore Street was right when he assured me that they provided ‘ the answers to all tropical problems ’ ; and some bound volumes of the British Medical Journal which I had picked up cheap in Charing Cross Road . |
| 13 | As he told me that he had killed perhaps ten , eleven or twelve people during the course of the war . |
| 14 | Lucifer 's face was so devil-like as he said it that he frightened even Izzie , a thing he had never done on stage . |
| 15 | He silently toasted Dowd as he talked , knowing as he sipped it that there 'd be bloodshed before Christmas Day dawned . |