Example sentences of "[pers pn] that [pron] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Crickets told me that they enjoyed the show . |
| 2 | ‘ Somebody told me that they saw the Bad Seeds recently and the show was being recorded , and that Blixa had had his volume knob turned down the whole time ! |
| 3 | If my children came home and said to me that they got the cane at school I 'd have just said well you must have deserved it . |
| 4 | And she thumped the cake down so hard in front of me that I expected the plate to shatter . |
| 5 | It was not until many years after the whole Jean-Claude episode was behind me that I realized the extent to which my physical appearance had dictated the terms of my life in Paris . |
| 6 | ‘ It was for ye , ’ Phillis said , ‘ as much as me that I bought the record . ’ |
| 7 | Daniel 's story certainly confirmed to me that I did the right thing — and that I should have done it years ago , if only for my children 's sake . |
| 8 | ‘ And your aunt tells me that she spent the whole evening in her room . |
| 9 | I remember that the very day that the surgeon told me that he thought the cancer was incurable , I saw the swifts returning to their annual nesting-place . |
| 10 | But one of them is a copy-editor , I think that is what he is called , and he told me that he thought the item had come in from a friend of Leila 's . ’ |
| 11 | It was gratifying to me that he approved the political and economic articles I was writing for the New English Weekly . |
| 12 | ‘ You — you mean to tell me that you left the area to come to our aid ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I told you that I formed the impression that Mrs Yeo was not secure in her husband 's affections , ’ Davidson said , primly . |
| 14 | She had winkled out of him that he got the story from Georgie and she had much trouble persuading him it was a joke . |
| 15 | In fact , though one has seen him play Augusta in an admirable 67 , even Jack Nicklaus had trouble convincing him that he had the game to win the US Masters and he never did . |
| 16 | Guy caught his breath all over again , so captivated by the sweet face upturned to him that he missed the strangely puzzled wonderment in her wide-eyed gaze , his own eyes tracing features drawn with exquisite delicacy , though her gently flushed cheeks still retained the rounded curves of youth . |
| 17 | I do n't know whether it was because I ignored him that he threw the drink over me , ’ she added . |
| 18 | When the hon. Gentleman finally gave me a straight commitment across the Dispatch Box to abolish GP fund holding , I told him that he delivered the support of the majority of GPs by doing so . |
| 19 | I told him that I had the one that was n't — but had no symptoms at all and even felt ‘ high ’ . |
| 20 | Mr Carey added : ‘ You were so keen to have your own way with her that you disregarded the fact that you could have made her pregnant . ’ |
| 21 | For I have not bothered to tell her that I spotted the blasted thing on our drive back from Bournemouth to London , lurking in a lay-by . |
| 22 | I said , yeah , tell her that I got the message , and that you know , it 's all fine . |
| 23 | It was when I was resting my hand on her flank to steady her that I noticed the little swelling under the skin . |
| 24 | Terry Wogan became so absorbed with her that he ran the interview into the closing music , leaving him scant time to promote his next programme — very unusual . |
| 25 | they , they er , the building society which was the insurance company was n't it that we had the mortgage through ? |
| 26 | I also remember leaving about 5 mins before the end to make the 5 mile walk to the station , only to hear the Leeds goal … or was it that I thought the noise was Leeds making it 3–2 ? ? ? |
| 27 | So successful was he that he named the new style after the insect . |
| 28 | During the brief journey to Brewer Street , Denice tells us that she enjoyed the film , particularly the surreal portrait of the afterlife . |
| 29 | Wordsworth tells us that he wrote The Prelude in order to give an account of the growth of his mind , which may help to account for the inclusion of some of the stranger incidents . |
| 30 | As the Secretary of State was never coy about telling us that he opposed the directive , will he tell us — as there is a meeting on Wednesday , I assume that he has made up his mind about whether he will agree to that part of the social charter — whether he has changed his mind or whether the Prime Minister has changed it for him ? |