Example sentences of "[pron] that [pers pn] is [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It comes in the evening after a busy day and tells me that it is past my bed-time . |
| 2 | One TDC guard remarked to me that it is like fibre in the diet . |
| 3 | His Mother tells me that he is of a mechanical turn , and I know that he has made some progress in mathematics . |
| 4 | But I am surprised your powers of observation have not already made it clear to you that he is in reality more than that . |
| 5 | Coffee will be served in the long drawing-room and , if you are to battle with me , may I remind you that it is to be in private . |
| 6 | I am sure I do not need to remind you that it is through incidents of this kind that Summerhill is judged and these thoughtless individuals have caused me considerable embarrassment . |
| 7 | The index to the Continuation Volume for 1975 ( or to the Cumulative Supplement ) will tell you that it is in the 1975 volume ( vol. 45 ) under the heading ‘ Infants , Children and Young Persons , ’ page 669 . |
| 8 | Had I had the receiver in my hand when some break in the conversation occurred at this point , I should have explained to you that it is in fact neither ; it is merely an examination of the various modes of thinking which the phrase implies — an examination which , in the tradition of British philosophical inquiry , seeks merely to study and perhaps oil the conceptual machinery and then to put it back more or less as it was . |
| 9 | At this point he does turn to God , but only to show him that he is at his wits ' end , and to express his fear . |
| 10 | The witches tell him that he is to be the next king , and instead of leaving the matter to take its natural course , he murders the King , and claims the throne . |
| 11 | The parable is as follows : In an occupied country during wartime , a member of the resistance meets a stranger who deeply impresses him , and who assures him that he is on the side of the resistance . |
| 12 | Ann Macpherson knows that her son is troubled , and he tells her that he is under pressure from Jacqueline . |
| 13 | Those more experienced than Marie in practising acts of intimidation and violence could have told her that it is of ten a mistake to delay , to let your victims talk to you . |
| 14 | Bad taste , do you , do you really rather disapprove anything that it is in any of them , do you think it inappropriate , not on , is there something in bad taste ? |
| 15 | Campbell is not saying that Christ takes our sin upon himself but he identifies so closely with us that it is as if he makes our confession and is thus separated from the presence of God for us . |
| 16 | Somehow , the châteaux owners have been able to persuade us that it is in our interest to pay for the wine before it has been bottled and to finance its cellar maturation , which in the case of the better wines takes from ten to fifteen or even twenty years . |