Example sentences of "[pers pn] that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He was telling me that they 'd died of the frost or something . |
| 32 | ‘ 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 ! |
| 33 | ‘ And my own instincts tell me that they escaped ! ’ fumed Fakrid . |
| 34 | They told me that they came from the country near Lagrimone and that they had obtained permission to come to pray in the Santuario for their cousin who was fighting in Russia . |
| 35 | Indeed some editors of specialist columns and journals tell me that they like to receive good background material so that they can keep it to use as a reference for future articles . |
| 36 | ‘ Someone will say : ‘ Oh , someone told me that they take drugs at that party . ’ |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | The brothers told me that they owned a remote and beautiful beach which had recently been colonised by hippies living in crevices among the rocks . |
| 39 | I did not run into a lot of people who told me that they had been unexpectedly impressed by Mr Kinnock or unimpressed by Mr Major . |
| 40 | But managers told me that they had learned from the experience . |
| 41 | Onlookers admitted to me that they had come simply to see the tragic spectacle of the naked bodies — some of which were badly burned . |
| 42 | When the greetings and exclamations were over , they told me that they had been staying on Mull for a few days , and had just arrived on Moila , and were putting up at the post office with Mrs McDougall . |
| 43 | ( Two surviving compositors , both of whom began work in 1909 told me that they had been among the last recruits . ) |
| 44 | Work-place acquaintance can safely be assumed to explain most of these weddings — though as it happens , two of the surviving women compositors , one who married a compositor from another printing office , and one whose husband worked at Bartholomew 's the map-printers , told me that they had met their future husbands at social gatherings unconnected with work . |
| 45 | I would never punish any child who did n't agree with me that they had done something … |
| 46 | It was clear to me that they had spared him in order to groom him for their own uses . |
| 47 | Erm told me that they had a lot of or a lot a number of people ringing purporting to be someone asking for information , and they like to keep a log of these bogus phone calls , I then rang the patients mother and and told her what had happened as quickly as I could . |
| 48 | Does the right hon. Gentleman remember that five months before the Gulf war , the Government told me that they had full confidence that Saddam Hussein was not developing nuclear weapons ? |
| 49 | I visited a school in the North West recently and the school told me that they had a considerable number of girls applying to university to read engineering about two years ago . |
| 50 | One of their men boasted to me that they intend killing the ministers . |
| 51 | ‘ The Chief Constable was able to divulge to me that they think Gray was killed last Thursday night . |
| 52 | But although the schizoid suicide and the anorexic both deny the reality of death , it seems to me that they do so for different reasons and in different ways . |
| 53 | It amazes me that they do n't use it , they do n't use the media in some way . |
| 54 | The Russians were determined to remove every last item of its inventory , down to the lavatory brushes and the steel tracks on which the dockyard trains ran : indeed it was a miracle to me that they did not demand the cobblestones as well . |
| 55 | I rang Transend to ask about a registered copy , but they informed me that they did n't register that game , but that I should just write out cheque for the amount a cross out the £ and pout $ . |
| 56 | It does n't surprise me that they did it . |
| 57 | Martin Martin notes that on a small rocky island to the south of Skye there is ‘ a great quantity of scurvey-grass , of an extraordinary size , and very thick ; the natives eat it frequently , as well boiled as raw : two of them told me that they happened to be confined there for the space of thirty hours , by a contrary wind ; and being without victuals , fell to eating this scurvey-grass , and finding it of a sweet taste , far different from the land scurvey-grass , they ate a large basketful of it , which did abundantly satisfy their appetites until their return home ’ . |
| 58 | The extreme condition of this is for someone to tell me that they loved me — few ever did — or to thank me . |
| 59 | The teachers told me that they found this very helpful , and we certainly find it helpful to hear from you about what is going on in your particular professional world and how the University can make an impact there . |
| 60 | An acquaintance who is well-informed as to the intentions of the Liberals writes to me that they propose to make a big plan of public works the centre of their election programme . |