Example sentences of "[noun prp] that [pers pn] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | A spokesman said Mr Wood had opened negotiations with Standard Chartered , a London-based overseas bank , as far back as January , but only told Mr Buxton that he was leaving last Monday . |
| 2 | But one look at the lacklustre picture presented by the normally spirited Harriet convinced Meredith that she was not even aware the protesters were there , let alone that she had approached so close . |
| 3 | Ross MacKay , director of the Institute of Economic Research at the University College of North Wales , Bangor , told the North Wales 2000 Prospects and Opportunities conference in Llangollen that it was much too early for the Government to consider scrapping regional aid to Clwyd and Gwynedd in favour of the South East of England . |
| 4 | ‘ And I gather from Jeff that I was right . ’ |
| 5 | The appellant , in evidence during the trial , had insisted that he had made it clear to Mr. Burt that he was not a fully qualified accountant , although he had passed some examinations . |
| 6 | A desperately disappointed Shreeves , currently in Cardiff helping Wales prepare for next week 's World Cup qualifier against Romania , was told on Tuesday that he was no longer required at White Hart Lane . |
| 7 | ‘ I gather from Noakes that it was crouching in a gateway . ’ |
| 8 | Then one of her aides came along and must have thought from the name Adams that I was a nationalist . |
| 9 | Again she saw Gazzer in her mind , laughing with Bella , clowning around , never taking anything seriously and she knew that she could never find the right words to convince Bella that he was dangerous . |
| 10 | Angry deputies of the parliament , the Supreme Soviet , voted 125-16 to ask the Constitutional Court to rule on the president 's announcement on Saturday that he was assuming special powers to force through a referendum on who rules Russia . |
| 11 | He 's desperate to score one and it was rather curious on Saturday that it was his shot , parried by , a player with an England pedigree should better than the Palace goalkeeper did on that occasion . |
| 12 | That 's why , cos she said I 'm just gon na know , I was gon na say to Richard that I was gon na ask Richard if if Emma , if he wants to go out with Emma ? |
| 13 | By Easter week it was clear to Richard that he was making no headway against a well-conducted defence and that in terms of political psychology it was risky to stake his reputation on one big success . |
| 14 | Oh , he told Richard Richard that he was , he was gon na se , he wanted to smack Pete 's face in ! |
| 15 | Is it possible that in 1943 or 1944 she would have told him , liberated Parisienne that she was , the details ? |
| 16 | He 'd never settled back into civilian life , and after telling his family at Wood Burcote in Northamptonshire that he was going camping in France , wrote to say he 'd enlisted with the Croats . |
| 17 | Ian Lang , the Scottish Secretary , said on Friday that it was now time to change ‘ the tone and mood of Scottish politics ’ and added : ‘ I have always accepted that a referendum could be an appropriate mechanism for sounding out opinion , particularly on constitutional issues . ’ |
| 18 | An elderly English lady , with a tendency to pre-war propriety , who told me on the Friday that she was afraid it would all be ‘ another load of pretentious American rubbish ’ , said on Sunday that she had learned to open up for the first time in her life . |
| 19 | In 1971 , however , the USSR indicated to the United States that it was interested in regular grain purchases . |
| 20 | Eccles told the WEA that he was opposed to the establishment of an advisory committee , preferring to leave discrimination between courses to the Responsible Bodies themselves : that was the end of Recommendation 18 . |
| 21 | Back in 1980 Geoff Yeadon had told Geoff Crossley that it was his ambition to see King Pot and the East Kingsdale Master Cave , linked to West Kingsdale and Keld Head . |
| 22 | A m A man named Harold from , and while I was in that hospital with that bit of a gas shell , he er he g fellow came and told me there , to Boulogne that he was dead , killed . |
| 23 | Orton told Ken that he was totally anonymous in his affairs . |
| 24 | You have made such a hit with Aunt Lavvy that it was inevitable she should be . ’ |
| 25 | I assured Aunt Lavvy that it was so , and that I could never coerce an unwilling female . |
| 26 | All those things that had once appealed to every instinct inside her for excitement failed to arouse anything but a nagging desire to look at her watch and wonder what time she could reasonably convince André that it was time to leave . |
| 27 | They told Austin Farrer that he was a spell-binder . |
| 28 | Christopher Trickie and his Wife … told Mogg that the French people had taken the plan of their House , and that They had also taken the plan of all the places round that part of the Country , that a Brook runs in the front of Trickie 's House and the French people inquired of Trickie wether the Brook was Navigable to the Sea , and upon being informed by Trickie that It was not , they were afterwards seen examining the Brook quite down to the Sea . |
| 29 | Then he 'd tell Phil Simpkin that he was having trouble with one of the staff , and she 'd be out on her wiggly bottom before she knew what hit her . |
| 30 | I could tell as soon as I saw Jan that she was all right . |