Example sentences of "[pron] that [pers pn] [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Barnet tells me that she expects her husband when she sees him . |
| 2 | ‘ Are you going to tell me that he holds his castle for the Empress and wo n't take you back ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ He just keeps telling me that he loves me and needs me . |
| 4 | Joel is n't a Catholic , as you know , but he 's told me that he believes there 's a Providence not so far away from us , really just above our heads if we could see it , that wants things to be the way they 're eventually going . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He spoke already in terms of collaboration — ‘ I sent you a few studies because you can see from them that she helps me a great deal by posing . |
| 7 | At first he wants nothing more than a quick lay with a pretty maid , then wants her to be his mistress , then is able to admit to himself that he loves her , but the idea of marriage across the social barrier is impossible for him . |
| 8 | To make matters worse , because he always does fail in his attempts to improve the situation , the sufferer convinces himself that he has nothing to look forward to but a lifetime of misery . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She bade me tell you that she loves you very dearly , and has never ceased to miss you . ’ |
| 11 | I 've told you that it gives me a terrific edge in any sale where Kemp 's a bidder . |
| 12 | At any rate , in this way if in no other , the English ideal of the artist as amateur has a continuing validity — and one that it behoves us , as Poundians , to acknowledge more often than we do . |
| 13 | It is no matter to him that he loses his hold over his children and his erstwhile fiancée . |
| 14 | In a single serpentine sentence Porfiry seems to dissolve into his own prose , showering Raskolnikov with a patter of tiny verbal blows as if exercising the Russian particle for its own sake ( nu da uzh ) , telling him that he considers him ‘ quite incapable ’ of committing suicide , and in the same breath to leave ‘ a short circumstantial note if he does . |
| 15 | He still finds her extremely beautiful and she practically apologises to Pip for all the suffering that she put him through and tells him that she hopes they will still be friends ‘ apart ’ . |
| 16 | He probably needs to get lost so often so that his mother will find him and remember to tell him that she loves him . |
| 17 | State Trooper McNamara reassures her that she has nothing to worry about because there are police there already . |
| 18 | Yet , Jesus seeks her out because he wants to demonstrate to her that he loves her ! |
| 19 | Mr Hall says in a letter to her that he finds it difficult to understand how he can be associated with the previous Conservative MP Chris Butler 's lack of support for the unit . |
| 20 | What else is it that it tells ya ? |
| 21 | Originally a Roman colony , legend has it that it takes its name from the first lord of its castle Rufus , Marquis of Obertenghi , who had thick red hair , or , perhaps more romantically , that it is named after the sunset hues which turn the mountain here from a gentle rose to red each evening . |
| 22 | It is here that Scaevola appeals to the trust clause ; and it is on the basis of it that he allows their entitlement to stand . |
| 23 | ‘ What a silly little trick — he certainly owes you an apology and I 'll see to it that he makes it . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I make it that he knows something that we do n't . ’ |
| 25 | John Tate , managing director of consultancy Tate Bramald Ltd says : ‘ It is safest to assume the worst of a package until you have confirmed for yourself that it does what it claims to . ’ |
| 26 | Finally , we open mind and heart , so that He may shed his light on our path , and tell us anything that He wants us to do . |
| 27 | In terms of the planning petition erm as you know this er application has been referred to the Secretary of State and he has informed us that he wants us to carry through erm and consider a consideration of this and make a a recommendation er of it . |
| 28 | The derivation of the word ‘ fact ’ can indeed remind us that it means something constructed rather than just observed . |