Example sentences of "[pers pn] that [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah so anyway and I said that 's not very nice so we were talking this morning about her and I had to tell Ann did n't I that she drove to work three days on a trot in her bleeding lights two . |
| 2 | that Robert 's already gone over , but I actually got the impression that erm I that you did n't feel relaxed in what you were doing , you knew what you were talking about but erm you did n't feel relaxed and if I 'd 've been your customer then I , I certainly would n't have felt relaxed either and and that 's the impression that I got which was the completely opposite of Robert . |
| 3 | ‘ For nothing , David , ’ said Julia , knowing that it was her fault and not his that they had got so near the brink . |
| 4 | I telephoned the prison , and Prison Officer Draycott told me that nobody had telephoned from there . |
| 5 | The pure white drifts of snow against the door of the hut convinced me that nobody had been that way recently . |
| 6 | ‘ Was she lying , then , ’ Miss Honey said , ‘ when she told me that nobody taught her to multiply or to read ? |
| 7 | My parents once told me that they lived on the Canary Islands for a little while but I do n't think I was born just yet . |
| 8 | It seemed to me that they assumed and air of could n't care less you know that that was their attitude after nationalization . |
| 9 | The Crickets told me that they enjoyed the show . |
| 10 | And it surprises me that they took him into the Force , 'cos he 's made no secret of it an' you know yourself how they 're thought about . ’ |
| 11 | One man told me that they left a rough sort of ramp at one side of the corn , and the horse slid down this on to the middlestead . |
| 12 | Although the ministers were too polite to commit themselves , even when I pressed them on this point , it was clear to me that they felt they , and their church , had been used . |
| 13 | There were seven of them , and it was a source of perpetual wonder to me that they 'd ever learned to speak their own languages , never mind anyone else 's . |
| 14 | Younis told me that they 'd taken my picture because I 'd hidden it . |
| 15 | Brand told me that they 'd been friendly from way back and when I leaned on him a bit he admitted that they 'd had a thing going but it had been broken off two or three years ago . ’ |
| 16 | He was telling me that they 'd died of the frost or something . |
| 17 | ‘ Somebody told me that they saw the Bad Seeds recently and the show was being recorded , and that Blixa had had his volume knob turned down the whole time ! |
| 18 | ‘ And my own instincts tell me that they escaped ! ’ fumed Fakrid . |
| 19 | They told me that they came from the country near Lagrimone and that they had obtained permission to come to pray in the Santuario for their cousin who was fighting in Russia . |
| 20 | If my children came home and said to me that they got the cane at school I 'd have just said well you must have deserved it . |
| 21 | The brothers told me that they owned a remote and beautiful beach which had recently been colonised by hippies living in crevices among the rocks . |
| 22 | I did not run into a lot of people who told me that they had been unexpectedly impressed by Mr Kinnock or unimpressed by Mr Major . |
| 23 | But managers told me that they had learned from the experience . |
| 24 | Onlookers admitted to me that they had come simply to see the tragic spectacle of the naked bodies — some of which were badly burned . |
| 25 | When the greetings and exclamations were over , they told me that they had been staying on Mull for a few days , and had just arrived on Moila , and were putting up at the post office with Mrs McDougall . |
| 26 | ( Two surviving compositors , both of whom began work in 1909 told me that they had been among the last recruits . ) |
| 27 | Work-place acquaintance can safely be assumed to explain most of these weddings — though as it happens , two of the surviving women compositors , one who married a compositor from another printing office , and one whose husband worked at Bartholomew 's the map-printers , told me that they had met their future husbands at social gatherings unconnected with work . |
| 28 | I would never punish any child who did n't agree with me that they had done something … |
| 29 | It was clear to me that they had spared him in order to groom him for their own uses . |
| 30 | Erm told me that they had a lot of or a lot a number of people ringing purporting to be someone asking for information , and they like to keep a log of these bogus phone calls , I then rang the patients mother and and told her what had happened as quickly as I could . |