Example sentences of "[pers pn] that she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ That nice lady sat there explaining to me that she had n't long to live . |
| 32 | Indeed at times it appears that she thinks that this liberation progresses from age to age ( though in correspondence she tells me that she thinks that the conclusion to history may well be that we annihilate ourselves ) . |
| 33 | Then a week later my wife told me that she 'd been abused by her brother . |
| 34 | She did n't bother to tell me that she 'd only got to call you , right ? |
| 35 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 36 | And it was she who told me that she 'd been , that 's where they 'd been . |
| 37 | Clare 's never told me that she 'd done anything with Stuart . |
| 38 | Indeed , she told me that she looked forward to practising them each evening as it formed such a peaceful interlude in her anxious life . |
| 39 | It seemed to me that she looked older than she was , using her age as a shield against unwelcome advances which she might secretly long for but would never permit . |
| 40 | Luke told me that she died in a car accident some time ago . |
| 41 | ‘ And your aunt tells me that she spent the whole evening in her room . |
| 42 | Linda Agran , a film executive , told me that she chose a female gynaecologist , Wendy Love , to do her hysterectomy because she believed in positive discrimination . |
| 43 | My informant tells me that she feels sure that the earlier event is still ‘ earthbound ’ and repeated the action . |
| 44 | I approached Inez , then Mrs Matthew Glynn , and she told me that she knew nothing of them . |
| 45 | It occurred to me that she knew you were a Gemini , and she was clearly thrilled about us getting together . ’ |
| 46 | I prayed that she would intercede for us , and show us her grace , and it came to me that she heard me , and that she willed to do us good . |
| 47 | The widow told me that she went out twice a day — once very early for shopping and once for a walk towards evening — but never where the passeggiata took place . |
| 48 | LSE graduate Lesley Satchell tells me that she took a teaspoonful of oil to her arthritic grandmother Mrs Wyn Butler . |
| 49 | And do n't forget , Joe was with me , and you know how careful he is. lee was at the party and one of the maids told me that she took him out of the party and spoke to him for a few minutes . |
| 50 | No , I assure you of that but , well , for one thing the Elsie I knew made it clear to me that she wished to make a new life for herself , start more or less from scratch . |
| 51 | One mother of six told me that she moved happily from motherhood to grandmotherhood with no time between for mourning the empty nest . |
| 52 | Elizabeth 's travels now took her to Corsica , and she almost hesitated to tell me that she found Calvi more beautiful than Greece . |
| 53 | But Margot , but Margot tells me that she 's loaded . |
| 54 | ( One of the teachers whom I interviewed , and who did not comment on this question , has since told me that she used it with a class . |
| 55 | It pleases me that she called me my darling and not my little prodigy as she once did ; this is the best sign yet that I am winning her back . |
| 56 | Erm , the the other things is a little while ago she was erm , er , er you know , giving me bills like for about five or six pounds once for cleaning materials , and I queried this , because it 's quite a lot of money and erm , so she tells me that she buys expensive erm bleach and she uses a bottle of that a week , well she only comes in three times , and I said well , that 's very extravagant I said and told her what , but since I told her that . |
| 57 | She agreed energetically with me that she writes like Galsworthy . |
| 58 | MRS Thatcher 's friends tell me that she has finally come around to the idea of going to the Lords after the election . |
| 59 | The simple test for ambiguity in an objective is to ask the question : Does this objective state what the nurse is going to do to show me that she has learned ? |
| 60 | I am reminded of all this by a correspondent who tells me that she has had a pear tree ‘ for about 30 years and in that time , have only once had good fruit ’ . |