Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [pron] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | That day they encountered an Armenian priest who informed them that the mountain towards which they were heading had never been ascended and , moreover , never would be . |
| 2 | However , his attempts to deflect attention away from his private life has rather backfired because on one occasion to distract a rather persistent journalist he assured him that he was ‘ heavily into drugs and loved having sex with Chihuahuas . ’ |
| 3 | He was only able to shed that bondage through a charismatic experience which reassured him that he was a child of God . |
| 4 | But he tempered the apprehensiveness with a shrug-of-the-shoulders-and-oh-what-the-hell attitude which told me that in his view the experience , and not the heroics of the impression he might create , was what mattered , was what he would enjoy , was what he had come for . |
| 5 | In Wildfowl Hall who told her that really she ought not to have left her husband |
| 6 | She then had a delectable mushroom soup — and for the main course she chose something that was entirely new to her . |
| 7 | But of course she told me that when they came there they were there to look after the place so that it was n't taken over , you know by anybody else , but she had a washing machine , the washing machine come in just after . |
| 8 | Two reporters in particular , Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward of the Washington Post , had already begun an investigation which convinced them that the operation had been planned by officials much higher up than Liddy ; and even more important , that a deliberate attempt was being made in the White House to cover up the whole matter . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He was awakened by a seaman who told him that the ship would not be leaving for seven days , and there would be no place for him to hide as timber was being loaded under German supervision . |
| 11 | You made it plain from the moment you met me that you were available , but you miscalculated if you imagined I 'd fallen for your little scheme . ’ |
| 12 | Midge had known the moment she saw them that something was wrong and she was hurt by Patrick 's announcement that he was going to pack up his things . |
| 13 | ‘ From the moment they told me that you were a breech baby I knew I 'd have trouble with you . ’ |
| 14 | When he 'd started regaining his confidence he told us that he 'd taken over from Terry in the endless arguments with David Jacobsen . |
| 15 | When Charman first joined the band he told them that him ambition was to be as big as Marc Riley and The Creepers one day . |
| 16 | But I did the whole of Orkney for a while I did everything that could be done . |
| 17 | Last night I told her that I did n't want to see her again . |
| 18 | We were woken a few minutes before one o'clock in the morning by a phone call from a friend who told us that the insistent thudding we could hear was American artillery fire . |
| 19 | Soon she was joined by a peasant woman dressed in black who told her that she was trying to get on to the hospital in Toulon for news of her son . |
| 20 | At the barrier at Gatwick , I was met by a friendly policeman who told me that the injuries were not as bad as had at first been thought , and that none of my family was in danger — news which immediately reduced me to tears . |
| 21 | ‘ Then there was the day she told him that she had read his books . |
| 22 | ‘ I came to find you because you were the only person who told me that Liam would n't be in that house . |
| 23 | I interviewed the commander of the Venetian fire service who told me that he had three boats at his dispersal and a fourth at half an hour 's readiness . |
| 24 | He had been just too young for the Korean War , and one day he told me that it was one of the experiences he regretted having missed . |
| 25 | In a burst of confidence one day he told me that he was working out a new system of numerology , developed from a study of people whose lives have been well documented . |
| 26 | I 've already told you he knew the minute he saw us that there was something wrong — ’ |
| 27 | With an air of great condescension he told me that he was ‘ prepared to give me a try-out ’ for a few hours a week . |
| 28 | She was the kind of woman who convinced herself that she liked all the rich smells associated with men . |
| 29 | At night , however , or during the long school holidays , she read detective stories , earning the contempt of her father who told her that his answer to the question ‘ Who dun n it ? ’ was invariably ‘ Who cares ? ’ |
| 30 | Only last week , I spoke to a garage owner who told me that almost every other customer was either losing a job or had just lost one in the past month or so . |