Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did he need a bit of help with his I mean a lot of them did made them that sort of I just found a lot of was so so behind and so |
| 2 | Oh I 'm glad you asked me that duck , I could tell you plenty about it . |
| 3 | He was due to read his own poems , but he prefaced the performance with remarking how extraordinary he found it that students obliged to attend lectures should want to turn up for more such talk after hours . |
| 4 | In fact , I 've just flown back from the States today , and you 'll be glad to hear that the doctors assured me that Liz and Owen are on the road to a full recovery . ’ |
| 5 | The commanding officer had given them more details of the crash and assured them that Whitey would have died quickly , although his body was badly burned . |
| 6 | Hampshire players were staggered when Smith told them that Waqar had said : ‘ I 'm going to ******* kill you , you **** . ’ |
| 7 | The doctor in the Accident and Emergency Department told them that Sally had been very lucky ; sniffing aerosols can kill at the first attempt , and some people 's hearts are affected . |
| 8 | He told them that Iraq had 60 divisions ready for war , compared with his enemies ' 18 , and would therefore win any battle for Kuwait , which was part of Iraq 's ‘ body and soul ’ . |
| 9 | Later Sarah and her mother came to see Julia , and she told them that Joe was at Dover and Anne had written to reassure him about them . |
| 10 | At this meeting the ministers asserted that their form of Church government was established by divine ordinance ; Taylor in reply told them that Presbyterians , along with Jesuits , ‘ were the greatest enemies to monarchy and most disobedient to Kings ’ , as shown by the actions of the Assembly of Scotland , and of Calvin , Knox and Buchanan . |
| 11 | And they sat numb and silent in a small hospital office , as a doctor gently told them that Danny was dead . |
| 12 | Even Geoffrey Winbush 's statement only told them that Louise had been on the Woodham Road . |
| 13 | A consultant neurosurgeon , John Miles , told them that Tim had shown no brain response after being taken off sedative drugs . |
| 14 | Millichip told them that Johnson had not breached any of the club rules and was generally regarded as one of their most loyal players . |
| 15 | Miguel told me that Rosie is doing well , and might come home on Wednesday . ’ |
| 16 | By the same token , Edwin told me that Gifford stopped using it after his stroke . ’ |
| 17 | I concluded from what Heather told me that Alan had taken him on for old time 's sake . ’ |
| 18 | I met R. D. Case afterwards — he was on the Westminster Gazette at that time — and he told me that Stanford was so drunk that he 'd almost fallen into the gravel Apparently he 'd just been caught in time by George Watson-Forbes , who later wrote a remarkable series of articles in the Daily News on the Home Rule question . ’ |
| 19 | A faint tinkle of metal told me that Shep was lurking there in his kennel and I slowed my steps ; I was n't going to be caught again . |
| 20 | My hands are never clammy , and something told me that Aunt Louise knew very well who had touched her . |
| 21 | Lineker 's agent came to me and told me that Lineker wanted to go to play in Japan . |
| 22 | Ben told me that Carl had baited him . |
| 23 | East African Asians told me that West Indians sometimes behave as though they are superior to Asians , because Asians are religious or because Asians ca n't speak English well . |
| 24 | Right , the search is on for the person in the team who told me that Larry Adler 's birthday was today , and not February the tenth . |
| 25 | I went to the house and got no answer then the woman next door told me that Brendan came in a posh motor car . |
| 26 | He told me that Pyke 's private life was n't a desert of austere and puritanical practices . |
| 27 | ‘ My daddy told me that tramps and people who have n't any money sometimes smoke cabbage-leaves and things like that instead of proper tobacco . |
| 28 | A woman arranging flowers around an anaemic statue told me that Father Burne was , ‘ even now , in the sacristy ’ . |
| 29 | But then she told me that Arthur was in love once before , and that it ended unhappily . |
| 30 | Ten years later , on a visit to Burnley and practising the skills of the oral historian , I talked to my grandmother , and she , puzzled , told me that Edna had never worked in any office , had in fact been apprenticed to a dry cleaning firm that did tailoring and mending . |