Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] that [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just at that moment when everyone was crossing their fingers on her behalf , so she looked up and told Jim that she felt she would do better to play out at an angle . |
| 2 | He told Stirling that he needed his best men himself and he was not going to allow them to join the SAS after the ‘ failure at Benghazi ’ . |
| 3 | Nigel told Eleanor that he despised her for making a pass at him . |
| 4 | As I was applying to art school I needed a reference so I told Vivienne that I thought I 'd ask Malcolm , since he was my employer . |
| 5 | David and I did have conversations about it and I told David that I thought he should get an accountant , or that he should ask for an account from Tony if he had questions about where money was going . |
| 6 | With the guilt swept from her mind , Ana seemed to have improved almost overnight and the pleasure on Felipe 's face told Maggie that he saw it too . |
| 7 | Asked how personal development had been affected , responses reveal improvements in self-confidence , social skills and aspirations : ‘ it has given me extra confidence to speak at meetings , e.g. community council , community association meetings ’ ; ‘ it has brought out skills I never new I had ’ ; ‘ I have learned to work closer with people since I joined , which is a new experience for me , and become more tolerant of people 's attitudes and ways ’ ; ‘ I am more aware of my own attitude towards my group ’ ; ‘ it has given me more confidence in my own ability to learn new skills ’ ; ‘ made me do things that I thought I was not capable of doing ’ . |
| 8 | It was only on re-reading Szasz that I realised I had been touched on a sensitive spot — the struggle for individual identity — and that that spot was central to the problem of anorexia nervosa . |
| 9 | Something in her mother 's voice told Lizzy that she meant it . |
| 10 | She had told Robert that she hated him , told him to go away , to move to another area , and he had taken that literally . |
| 11 | And she had told Wynne-Jones that he had nothing to fear . |
| 12 | Thrift apologizes , whingeing , for the poisoned sausage , reminding Alix that she ate it twenty years ago , when she had no money and needed the sausage . |
| 13 | The second quarter promised to show a further profit on both Charlie 's enterprises , and he warned Becky that he had his eye on the butcher 's shop , since the owner 's only boy had lost his life at Passchendaele . |
| 14 | Even if Madeleine were able to convince Aubrey that she loved him and was willing to wait for him , had he the moral right to ask her to do so ? |
| 15 | They would allow people that they thought they could trust to accumulate a lot of debt on it . |
| 16 | Her pen shot across the page , making symbols that she hoped she could decipher later on . |
| 17 | ‘ But I thank God that He spared me for this ! ’ |
| 18 | But he denied claims that he harassed his 25-year-old secretary . |
| 19 | It was n't until I underwent hypnosis that I realised I was still a Catholic . |
| 20 | Then she went upstairs to tell Giovanna that she thought she would not be able to stay for her Italian lesson , because she felt so ill , and took herself painfully back across the Grand Canal to her temporary home . |
| 21 | I 'd better get some coffee she 's going to tell Joe that you charged her this . |
| 22 | Letters carne almost every day from John and although he talked about Hitler 's invasion of Russia and other war news , he always remembered to tell Anne that he loved her . |
| 23 | We revealed yesterday that another of Courtney 's victims is still too terrified to tell police that he attacked her . |
| 24 | They got you know quite a bit of stick for not being able to produce drawings that they said they had . |