Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told her that the bracelet had the woman 's music in it , and sometimes , if you waited for rain and then listened very carefully , you could just hear it , very faintly , like someone playing in the distance . |
| 2 | Brian thought Edna seemed wary when he told her that the specialist in charge of Celia wanted to have a talk with her the following weekend . |
| 3 | He told her that the cross was not religious , but marked the place where a criminal was put to death and buried . |
| 4 | He told him that a mitre could be a candle-snuffer . |
| 5 | Joe met a man he had sailed with , and he told him that a ship had already been sunk by a submarine . |
| 6 | In April he told him that the next war had already started . |
| 7 | When he told them that the Government could have used more oil at the power stations this summer and so built up coal stocks for the winter against a possible strike , but had n't , they merely retorted , ‘ More fool you ’ and thanked him for letting them know how strong their position was . |
| 8 | He told them that the educational psychologist was very good and really knew the children . |
| 9 | When the Shah and Empress received Marenches , he told them that the ayatollah had sent kidnappers to seize Hassans family and bargain them for the Shah . |
| 10 | However , he submitted that even if the trial judge had misdirected the jury when he told them that the case against the first appellant depended solely upon what it was proved that he himself had done , that misdirection was to the advantage of the first appellant . |
| 11 | He told me that the sacred water was bottled and sold to Irishmen all over the world for its healing powers . |
| 12 | He told me that the way I felt was quite normal for someone in my situation ’ |
| 13 | My father had been apprenticed to Mr. Cooper and he told me that the trucks had been made when trade was slack . |
| 14 | He told me that the match on Sunday was the first time he had been properly man marked since playing in Italy . |
| 15 | He told me that the first three days were an agony , thirst being the greatest torture , then slowly the body reversed its patterns and you got used to it . |
| 16 | He told me that the oxygen mask had pulled away from my face some , and that I was probably just blacking out . |
| 17 | For instance , we were talking about the cinema , and he told me that the average Hollywood film reaches a larger public than the Holy Scriptures . |
| 18 | In it he told me that the blood he had spilt over my traitor 's proposal — his own blood — was nothing to the blood of the traitors that he would shed if the Aten fell , and it was his lot to take vengeance . ’ |
| 19 | He told me that the central finger always goes first , followed by the ring finger and then , if you 're lucky , the index . |
| 20 | He told me that the telephonist at the police station had received a telephone call from a man saying that an escaped prisoner , a Lawrence er was to be found at er the home of a David and that the er Lawrence was in possession of a hand gun . |
| 21 | Eddy himself lives in Oxford , and this morning he told me that the final piece of his Formula One jigsaw fell into place recently with a major sponsorship deal from soft drink manufacturers , Seven Up . |
| 22 | ‘ He told us that a new laser , a pulsed dye device similar to the one now installed at the Ulster Hospital , could reduce the birthmarks by up to 90pc in some cases . |
| 23 | He told us that the paintings on either wall faced each other , and he liked to think they carried on a consultation to themselves . |
| 24 | He told us that the end of February is the peak period for avocet numbers , ‘ record count so far this year is 170 birds . ’ |
| 25 | in London B T H or G E C , I remember he told us that the last time you know because he was n't called up in the war he was reserved . |
| 26 | For Jesus had still much to teach the disciples which they could not understand before his passion ; so he assured them that the Spirit would continue his teaching function among them when he had left them ( 16 : 131 . |
| 27 | He assured her that the end was in sight and a friend has since described the case as the pinnacle of his career . |
| 28 | However , he assured her that the fact Putt was conscious when he was brought back to the manor meant he had probably suffered no permanent damage . |
| 29 | We told Jean Paul that the cut-off jeans held together with masking tape and ground-in dirt were a bit trop , and he assured us that the too-small cycling caps would look genuinely ridiculous when they were made up . |
| 30 | He assured us that the preservation of a proper pension scheme would be a consideration taken into account by the Secretary of State in determining to whom the subsidiaries of the Scottish Transport Group were to be sold . |