Example sentences of "me [that] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It occurred to me that its republication in our Symposium might both appeal to him and attract public attention : for I considered it an authoritative statement of the value of Humanism ( the title was a little misleading ) in its relation to religion . |
| 2 | Then they told me that its companion had just died — it was older — so I rather think it was depressed and lonely . |
| 3 | So it seems to me that what Williamson has shown in one particular case is clear evidence of punctuation , but no reasons at all that I can see for supposing that the mechanism of change was any other which Darwin described over a hundred years ago . |
| 4 | John was always prepared to take suggestions from his chosen dancers and also from Peggy van Praagh , who told me that her function was most often to suggest that he was attempting too much and ought to take something out . |
| 5 | She told me that her parents had been kind and loving and that , when her two younger brothers were born after the war , she had got on with them quite well apart from the normal childish disagreements . |
| 6 | There was a girl in charge of the place , a child of perhaps twelve , who told me that her name was Morag , and that her auntie had stepped out on a visit , but had said the young lady from Camus na Dobhrain might be there to use the telephone , and please to go through . |
| 7 | Would she tell me that her cousin is no thief ? ’ |
| 8 | She told me that her fiancé had been killed in the war . |
| 9 | Sheila , who had been ringing for over 20 years , told me that her father and grandfather had both been ringers . |
| 10 | She writes to tell me that her father has found a house that will be suitable for us . |
| 11 | Mollie ca n't believe her new shape and tells me that her colleagues ca n't get over the transformation either . |
| 12 | One of them is a teacher of deaf children at St Mary 's and she loved the old schoolroom at the museum and told me that her class were doing a project on Northern Ireland and she must bring them here to see it all . |
| 13 | The Princess of Wales once told me that her husband had been watching the Miss World contest , which quite surprised me . |
| 14 | Some time after this Mrs Meehan wrote to me that her husband was innocent , and asked for assistance in having his case reviewed . |
| 15 | Among friends I met here were our hosts $insert names$ who told me that her husband was making a steady recovery from his recent illness . |
| 16 | Years later , his sister-in-law Theresa told me that her husband , Henry Ware Eliot , had written to some department of the British government , presumably the Home Office , requesting them to give Eliot some sort of protection at this critical moment . |
| 17 | However , Maxine informed me that her mother had always described how she had screamed when being bathed as a tiny baby , so she doubted whether we would be able to find a specific incident which could have caused the onset of the phobia . |
| 18 | One of the survivors told me that her mother " never worked " , but it later emerged that she did go out to clean offices . |
| 19 | She tells me that her son has been influenced by some flighty little English madam to renege on his own responsibilities in order to give her a conducted tour of Copenhagen . ’ |
| 20 | One survivor told me that her apprenticeship lasted about four years and that that was normal at the time ( she started work in 1909 at 15 after an unsuccessful start in dressmaking ) . |
| 21 | It seems to me that their gender appropriateness must be reinforced in other ways . |
| 22 | Nothing puts me off more than an artist coming to me and telling me that their work sells well . |
| 23 | And it was soon made clear to me that their shopping , far from being a simple necessity , was very much a serious business . |
| 24 | Also , Christie 's tell me that their film and entertainment sale of December 1991 saw a mere 10 per cent unsold by value and a paltry 25 per cent unsold by lot , which of course does not add up to ‘ a third of the lots ’ unsold , as I wrongly stated last week . |
| 25 | It seemed to me that their actions were always calculated to hurt . |
| 26 | I think we would be wise to reflect a little longer and to think that perhaps the Government is not so far wrong in what it is saying and I have to say finally My Lords that I never in my public life , or indeed in my private life have met anybody who has said to me that their attitude towards their local police force has been in any way influenced by the fact that the members of the police authority were or were n't democratically elected . |
| 27 | It did not at the time occur to me that their behaviour together had anything to do with what went on between Jean-Claude and me . |
| 28 | Both are referring specifically to the woman 's role in personal relationships , but it seems to me that their comments could just as easily be applied to the role of children in relation to adults . |
| 29 | I befriended a family named Armstrong , who told me that their ancestors had been deported to Northern Ireland from the Scottish borders in 1610 . |
| 30 | Women who told me that their partners accused them of using tears to manipulate them agreed that there were times when they deliberately wept , but said that it was often the only way they could get their partner 's attention . |