Example sentences of "[pers pn] that he have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It struck me as odd at the time , and when Harry Collins told me that he had asked for a morning appointment it seemed even odder . ’ |
| 2 | He told me that he had fallen into the water with Compeyson , and then been hit by the ship . |
| 3 | He told me that he had said to Ivy that he hoped between the three of us we might make head or tail of it , and she said , ‘ Well , we are three intelligent people , so I ca n't see why we should have any difficulty . ’ |
| 4 | A first-year physics student told me that he had thought of transferring to an arts subject , maybe psychology , in the first few weeks , because : |
| 5 | He told me that he had come to the Legion so that he could kill people without going to prison . |
| 6 | Wyn smiled , perhaps remembering those tales himself , or some connection with them that he had witnessed in the wood . |
| 7 | He told them that he had separated from his Argentinian-born wife four years ago and that she had returned to Buenos Aires . |
| 8 | He would be able to tell them that he had disposed of the offending creature and was in no danger . |
| 9 | They each fall utterly under his spell and promise to obey him in everything , whereupon he tells them that he has to go on a journey and gives them the keys of his magnificent house but forbids them to enter a room which is opened by a particular little key . |
| 10 | ‘ We have n't had a chance to tell them that he 's gone for trial yet , sir . |
| 11 | The youngster told him that he had come from Wales to make his fortune as a pop singer . |
| 12 | Fran exchanged pleasantries with her , curbing her impatience before finally asking if she knew where Luke had gone , and went weak with relief when the other woman informed her that he had gone to the old college . |
| 13 | Only when they actually got to know each other had he discovered that it was the idea of loving her that he had fallen for and not the girl herself . |
| 14 | When Matey had returned on that fateful afternoon , Dr Neil had told her that he had proposed to McAllister , and that she had accepted him . |
| 15 | What had been lacking in her that he had found in Henrietta ? |
| 16 | By this time , Lewis had shown Morse the yellow A4 sheet ; and Morse had seemed so delighted with it that he 'd turned on the car 's internal light in transit . |
| 17 | When we arrived at Jaipur my father told us that he had sent for us so that we could go with him tiger-shooting . |
| 18 | This doctrine appears in an altered form in the Preface to Lyrical Ballads where Wordsworth tells us that he had written about ‘ low and rustic life … because in that situation the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Over the meal he told us that he had discussed with the authorities what people would be released . |
| 20 | Paul Ingouf informed us that he had telephoned to a retired fireman who had actually attended the crash and who was now on his way to the office to meet us . |
| 21 | Physics realised 67 per cent ; History a promising 77 per cent ; and Mathematics was strongest of all , with an average of 77 per cent over three subjects : algebra I and II at 72 per cent and 80 per cent , geometry at 86 per cent and trigonometry at 70 per cent ; ( he admitted to us that he had opted for the latter at school , because it enabled him to evade Latin ! ) . |
| 22 | He told us that he has written to the officer in charge of his interrogation : ‘ Since we met , I have met something new — these four things , absolute honesty , purity , unselfishness and love . |
| 23 | There is his Author 's Note to Victorious Troy to assure us that he has spoken with a boy whose experience had been similar to that of Dick Pomfret and that cases where dismasted sailing ships without officers had been brought to port by boys were not unknown , but we hardly need this assurance in order to believe that Dick , not unaided but with a responsibility beyond his years , did in fact bring the Hurrying Angel home in the end . |