Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] that [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rumour has it that he contracted a venereal disease at some point and sought medical treatment . |
| 2 | At the start she is only so cruel as she is only Miss Havisham 's tool for revenge , and later she seems to have a little pity for Pip when she warns him that she has no heart . |
| 3 | And having noticed that there is nothing whatever in this ‘ I think , therefore I am ’ which assures me that I say the truth , other than that I see very clearly [ je vois très clairement ] that to think it is necessary to be , I judged that I could take it as a general rule that the things which we conceive very clearly and very distinctly [ que nous concevons fort clairement et fort distinctement ] are all true … |
| 4 | Terry Bunce , from the Flying Club , tells me that they have a wings night every year for the new people , and as it was also the 25th anniversary of the Ulster Aviation Society they decided to invite the veterans along . |
| 5 | ‘ And your aunt tells me that she spent the whole evening in her room . |
| 6 | LSE graduate Lesley Satchell tells me that she took a teaspoonful of oil to her arthritic grandmother Mrs Wyn Butler . |
| 7 | For instance , if children are not out of care within six weeks after reception into care , research tells us that they have a 60 per cent chance of still being in care after two years , a finding that has clear implications for the resources and inter-agency co-operation needed for many social work clients . |
| 8 | During the brief journey to Brewer Street , Denice tells us that she enjoyed the film , particularly the surreal portrait of the afterlife . |
| 9 | Wordsworth tells us that he wrote The Prelude in order to give an account of the growth of his mind , which may help to account for the inclusion of some of the stranger incidents . |
| 10 | Yeah , and I said erm , and I said that were n't , if that was n't enough I said bearing in mind he 'd just come out of intensive care off a life support machine , I said and which I think that , that tells us that he needs a bit of extra care compared to some of them on the ward , I said I know they 're all important and I know you 're busy but I said I think you should 've had a bit of priority , he was dying , and you know he 's dying , you 'd been told , she said yes that 's right , I said but what really broke my bloody heart was from one o'clock that dinner time he sat in that chair , we left that hospital at half past eight and you assured us he 'd go to bed and when we came in the next morning at half past ten Joy he sat there exactly the bloody same , in the same filthy blanket and the same catheter on him , oh I went fucking mad and I said how dare you , I said because somebody 's told they 're dying does that mean they 've got to be forgot ? |
| 11 | The foregoing review of the native authorities satisfies me that they afford no support for Woolwich 's major proposition . |
| 12 | Having met a cat , a teddy , a hen and an uncle , he finally finds a Mummy without a child and they all live hapily together until the uncle reminds him that he has no Daddy … |