Example sentences of "[verb] me that [indef pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His village was at the upper end of the valley in which the woman of Lohali had been killed the previous week , and he told me that nothing had been heard of the man-eater since , and added that the animal was possibly now at the other end of the district . |
| 2 | I telephoned the prison , and Prison Officer Draycott told me that nobody had telephoned from there . |
| 3 | ‘ Was she lying , then , ’ Miss Honey said , ‘ when she told me that nobody taught her to multiply or to read ? |
| 4 | The racegoers from the train were on the whole easily identifiable as they all seemed to have been issued with large red and white rosettes with Race Train passenger emblazoned on them in gold : and the rosettes proved not to be confined to those in the front half of the train because I came across Zak wearing one too , and he told me that everyone had been given one , the owners included , and where was mine ? |
| 5 | In 1966 , soon after the book appeared , my agent told me that someone wanted to make a film out of it . |
| 6 | When you put all these factors together it concerns me that nobody has been advancing the case that as with other districts , some other districts in York , it would be appropriate , even more appropriate in my view , that the migration assumption should be discounted , there are in my view special reasons why this should be the case , special reasons over and above tho those that have been applied , to the other districts , this in my view would be that the Greater York housing provision for all those reasons I 've just highlighted , should be reduced , should be reduced to the seventy five percent level , in other words that would be reducing it by between a thousand and twelve hundred and fifty houses , now I wo n't get on to the reason that the fact that that 's one reason why there 's no need for a new settlement , erm but it is a reason in its own right just to protect the character and the capacity requirements and the environmental sensitivities of the Greater York area . |
| 7 | The pure white drifts of snow against the door of the hut convinced me that nobody had been that way recently . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ I thought it was going to tell me that someone had died . |