Example sentences of "[pron] that [pers pn] [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mother who swore to everyone that she loved her children ! |
| 2 | Then Holmes checked with me that I had my gun , an army revolver . |
| 3 | That poem reminds me that I did my best , did my duty if you like . ’ |
| 4 | When Liz told me that she thought your boss wanted to marry you I knew I had to step in and stop that nonsense once and for all , ’ he grated , his strong arms tightening possessively about her . |
| 5 | Mrs Barnet tells me that she expects her husband when she sees him . |
| 6 | He told me that he fired his gun at the dogs and they ran away . |
| 7 | He so loved you and me that he gave his son for us ! |
| 8 | ‘ Are you going to tell me that he holds his castle for the Empress and wo n't take you back ? ’ |
| 9 | And that 's while he was telling me that he wanted his Harley Street centre to offer a rape examination suite . |
| 10 | He told me that he liked my playing and that he would give me a ring when I got back to Milwaukee , and about three to four months later we actually formed a band and went on tour . |
| 11 | In my letter to Eliot , enclosing my own article , I had expressed the hope that , in contrast to Rowse , who told me that he considered my letter ‘ ineffective ’ , might approve of it . |
| 12 | It 's important to me that you hear my side of the story — though God knows it does me little enough credit ! |
| 13 | You 've told me that you spent your adolescence in isolation , actually codifying every little bodily habit and cognitive loop — ’ |
| 14 | Your master has persuaded me that you found our correspondence helpful , and that I should resume it . |
| 15 | You have shown me that you think my people are your brothers . |
| 16 | We will have to be very sure that we know what we 're talking about when we meet them to persuade them that we need their funds more and we can make better use of them and we hope to raise around half of that twenty five million pounds from them . |
| 17 | In practice the resolute supporter of Party A is not likely when he lists his preferences to be thinking primarily of any eventual cooperation between his party and Party B. His chief concern will be the success of as many as possible of Party A's candidates , and it will be to all of them that he gives his higher preferences . |
| 18 | He wondered , morbidly introspective in the cold light of dawn , whether his decision to see the next murder case through from the call to the scene of crime to the trial had really arisen from a desire to learn or merely from a craven wish to impress or , worse , to propitiate , his staff , to show them that he valued their skills , that he wanted to be one of the team . |
| 19 | Berle met with Canadian officials at the end of March 1944 , and told them that he liked their draft convention , but considered it a long-term rather than an immediate possibility . |
| 20 | I felt like murmuring the verses about Judas going out and hanging himself , and that he should go and do likewise , but Benjamin looked so quietly pleased with himself that I bit my tongue . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's come , ’ breathed Vi and so disbelieving was she that she checked its very existence with the engine driver and his black-faced fireman . |
| 22 | I told you that she felt her life was ended . |
| 23 | And if , like us , you 've never heard of her , we should tell you that she plays his 14-year-old daughter in a romantic piece of ooh-la-la entitled My Father The Hero . |
| 24 | ‘ In order to constitute the offence of rape … the prosecution must satisfy you that he effected his purpose by overcoming such resistance as the girl offered , you being satisfied that she was offering resistance and that he was overcoming it . |
| 25 | When you asked me to undertake a review of the management of the Prison Service , I told you that I thought my recommendations would be easier for me to make than for you to implement , but you assured me you believed the climate was ready for some radical change . |
| 26 | Did n't I always say to you that you had your uses ? |
| 27 | Is it so vital to you that you find your mother ? |
| 28 | I looked around and I hit her such a bloody fourpenny one that I knocked her flying . |
| 29 | We know he 's thorough , and puts such fear into those who serve him that they do his work as he will have it done . |
| 30 | He subsequently served as its legal adviser , and it is thanks to him that it obtained its Light Railway Order and was enabled to operate under a lease agreement until purchase negotiations were concluded . |