Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] that [pron] [verb] [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 | I also told David that I think there is a substantial difference between my vision of the Library and that of some other staff , and that this factor is the cause of much of the perceived difficulty between myself and others . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 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 | Political and economic considerations regarding England seem to be an important part of Amanda 's critique , but surely our heritage , culture and lifestyle should give every English person cause for some degree of contentment , and to praise God that we have what we have . |
| 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 | ‘ But I thank God that He spared me for this ! ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I 'd better get some coffee she 's going to tell Joe that you charged her this . |
| 18 | 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 . |