Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [that] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | A year actually on the job had taught me that it was n't quite so simple ! |
| 2 | In the three years I 've been here , and because C&P was one of the first ICI groups to move into quality , the value of the quality ethos has taught me that it 's the only way to do business . |
| 3 | Half the English and American ladies do n't realize until they 've seen it that it is linked to the Baron , and if we make a feature of that in the advance publicity we can suggest double bookings for consecutive nights . |
| 4 | Their mother and father have told them that it is about time they started helping a bit more at home . |
| 5 | ‘ Others have told me that it shows an old woman sitting looking out on a stormy sea from a tranquil cottage garden . |
| 6 | The man who had originally told me that it was ‘ verboten ’ and who had stood a little apart while the others talked , now came forward again . |
| 7 | Kāli had told me that it was no longer used , that if one more chip were taken the entire tree would topple . |
| 8 | The doctor had told me that it was probable that he would die from either an infection or a brain haemorrhage . |
| 9 | I had heard about the Dog Man before on my week-long journey from Kirk Yetholm towards Edale — travellers going north had told me as I journeyed south at first that the Dog Man was only three days ahead of me , then two days ahead of me , and then the final group of walkers had told me that it would n't be long before I caught him up . |
| 10 | ‘ She 's told me that it 's nothing she regrets . |
| 11 | And he 's told me that it 's first gear , right . |
| 12 | It has n't surprised me that it 's happened again . |
| 13 | In their book , Leytonstone would therefore be real bandit country and Romford , once you 'd convinced them that it was n't actually off the edge of the map , was probably the Twilight Zone . |
| 14 | They may have told you that it was , but it could n't have been . |
| 15 | I 've told you that it gives me a terrific edge in any sale where Kemp 's a bidder . |
| 16 | It was many years since Selwyn 's wife had persuaded him that it was not good manners to pick his teeth in company , but his lips still made the motions of mouthing a toothpick . |
| 17 | Besides , Carl had told him that it was a terrible job for a man of taste . |
| 18 | Though he had never seen their cottage he seemed to remember that his aunt had told him that it lay about two miles to the south . |
| 19 | He had often told her that it was a social disadvantage having the sort of wife he could n't take anywhere , but he dropped this line when she started appearing beside him at literary lunches and old school do 's . |
| 20 | Those more experienced than Marie in practising acts of intimidation and violence could have told her that it is of ten a mistake to delay , to let your victims talk to you . |
| 21 | Clara did not enjoy her sausage , for it was burned black on the outside and raw in the middle , and her mother had told her that it was impossible not to get worms from raw sausage meat , but the taste of the damp mince with its bitter crust remained a strong reminder of illicit pleasure . |
| 22 | At first his wife never left him , since the doctors had told her that it was vital that he should find her there when he came out of his coma , and then when the immediate danger had passed she visited him three times a day and gave him his meals . |
| 23 | There is also a suggestion here that her analysis of the relationship between letter and sound can be unsuccessful : -oge is a highly unusual pattern in English ( gamboge : is there anything else ? ) and that should have told her that it was unlikely to be right . |
| 24 | Sally-Anne reached the gates and walked up to the rectory , an eighteenth-century building which had once been beautiful , but like the area around it had gone to seed badly , although Dr Neil had told her that it was elegant , if shabby inside . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's a big place for one person — two , ’ she corrected , remembering how he had told her that it was Peter 's home too . |
| 26 | But why had nobody ever told her that it was quite impossible to keep clean whenever there were any children about ? |
| 27 | Although IBM and DEC withdrew their products from Technology following its acquisition by ICL , Coon says that Technology has convinced him that it will not cross sell or give away DG 's secrets to its competitors . |
| 28 | The fact that nobody wrote and said that he was brilliant and was a genius convinced him that it was n't Robert Bolt who was at fault or the director Noel Willman , but himself as an actor . |
| 29 | Stagecoach has been more honest and straightforward than that and has told us that it will bid for every part of the Scottish Bus Group . |
| 30 | Some TECs have told us that it is not their guarantee but the Government 's . |