Example sentences of "[pers pn] that he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told me that he made a point of seeing one pantomime a year . |
| 2 | I regret the fact that I was not in the Chamber for the speech of the hon. Member for Pudsey ( Sir G. Shaw ) , but my hon. Friend the Member for Durham , North-West ( Ms. Armstrong ) , who was here , told me that he made a heavily veiled criticism of Government policy for its lack of recognition of progress as a key measure of the effectiveness of schools , and expressed concern about the morale of teachers who , he said , were not sufficiently recognised by society . |
| 3 | In yet another shop , a lad told me that he hoped to obtain a more powerful model in about a month but he did n't have any literature I could look at . |
| 4 | John Wright remarked to me that he met some strange friends through John who , while still a teenager , was obviously finding friends of a congenial bohemianism akin to his own . |
| 5 | He told me that he meant me no harm , but was a magician , who had made the music play around me , and wished to have my hand in marriage and live in my castle , with me and my brother , in peace hereafter . |
| 6 | Richard Hunt , former Keeper of Western Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library and a considerable Medieval Latinist himself , once told me that he thought Sister Penelope the best translator from Latin in her generation . |
| 7 | I remember that the very day that the surgeon told me that he thought the cancer was incurable , I saw the swifts returning to their annual nesting-place . |
| 8 | Nicola 's husband told me that he thought you had something to do with the murder . |
| 9 | But one of them is a copy-editor , I think that is what he is called , and he told me that he thought the item had come in from a friend of Leila 's . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Doctor Andrews told me that he kept on saying how much he wished he could have left you enough money to live on ; but , as you know , nearly everything he possessed he 'd already bequeathed to that French museum which he started himself . |
| 11 | ‘ It was evident to me that he believed a certain act of self-denial was required of him . |
| 12 | He kissed me ; it was intended to be a sealing sort of kiss to show me that he believed me and that things were going to start being all right , but the kiss altered in the middle and suddenly he pulled himself away . |
| 13 | This old man had once told me that he left school when he was twelve , whereas I had spent most of the twenty-four years of my life in study . |
| 14 | In the course of my pastoral visiting , before I took a funeral service , I called on the dead man 's son , who told me that he fell out with his father at his wedding twenty years previously and that he was not going to the funeral service now ! |
| 15 | ‘ One more thing — Matthew Choak told me that he went to Penzance on Friday night to see the film , Straw Dogs . |
| 16 | Anyway I went to see Foxy at lunchtime and erm and he said that erm er and I mentioned it to him and I said you know do n't go up to Sal and say Jess is feeling like erm you know , feeling that he 's , feeling really jealous because er if , if Sal is trying to get back that will just like please him , you know , if he is trying , if that 's the whole aim of the whole , you know , the operation then , then he 'll just feel pleased and it will also embarrass Jessica and she does n't want and if , and if it 's not , if it was nothing , you know , she 'll feel embarrassed so please do n't say anything and he said no no I 'll just make some subtle , subtle comment and he went up to , he told me that he went up to Sal and he goes erm and he says how 's everything going with Jessica and Sal goes yeah it 's good and , and he go erm cos er Phil erm cos Foxy goes oh cos it 's , it 's going really well with me and Catriona , it 's going really well I 'm really enjoying it , what about you , you know , and Sal goes yeah , it 's really good and Foxy goes erm you know is it , is it a long term thing then , you looking for a long term thing do you think and Sal goes yeah , what about you and Foxy goes yeah yeah definitely yeah , you know , cos he was doing it subtly so I came back and I said to Jess you know really , an and Foxy said there was nothing strange about , it was no f you know it was definitely to fe s f erm Sal was er you know being truthful , there was not like erm yeah well yeah you know and trying to get off the subject , it was n't it was completely , yeah , it 's brilliant , going really well , really enjoying it and it 's gon na be long term sort of thing . |
| 17 | An elderly verger once confided to me that he felt happier at a good funeral than at a wedding . |
| 18 | ‘ He said to me that he felt that in the last couple of internationals he had n't done himself justice . |
| 19 | Dennis told me that he lived in North Oxford , but that was geographical hyperbole . |
| 20 | I recalled Nigel 's telling me that he got tired of signing his name , which was a long one , on forms required by local government each week and for which his office was responsible , and started signing Karl Marx and Adolf Hitler and other such notable figures of history . |
| 21 | For years afterwards my fellow pupils would remind me that he got a gong — an Air Force Medal — for teaching me to fly . |
| 22 | He told me that he got an awful rocket from the Director of Accounts when he handed in the bill which worked out at several hundred pounds — and here we are talking of the year 1946 ! |
| 23 | Forster once wrote to me that he knew Ivy 's characters were good as well as clever ; they are a great deal better than anyone in his books . |
| 24 | Hanfmann describes ‘ a rather arrogant colleague ’ who ‘ told me that he knew I wrote good case histories , but had not expected me to be so good at theory ’ ( 1983 : 147 ) . |
| 25 | Indeed , a business manager involved in trying to develop a portfolio analysis of SBUs recently stated to me that he knew that assessing the profitability of the different SBUs was a key step in determining market attractiveness , but he did not know which accounting concept was correct . |
| 26 | He told me that he knew both individuals er that Lawrence er was an escaped prisoner . |
| 27 | When we stopped , he told me that he saw Jesus leading him down the path away from St Luke 's and out into the street . |
| 28 | Mr Summerchild ( who tells me that he read classics at Cambridge ) turned out to be eminently suitable in this respect . |
| 29 | Of course I 've sent specimens to Forensic but you can take it from me that he died of strychnine poisoning ; a fairly hefty dose but he 'd been living on borrowed time any way . |
| 30 | Peter Rogers , who produced all the movies , told me that he said that as long as he had enough money to keep himself and his mother he was happy . |