Example sentences of "[pers pn] that [pers pn] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In fact th the older kind I that I mind of there was places you could even sit in the nook .
2 No less than three supporters , all before opening time , have told me that they know for certain that a League chairman has been watching me in recent weeks .
3 My parents once told me that they lived on the Canary Islands for a little while but I do n't think I was born just yet .
4 They told me that they came from the country near Lagrimone and that they had obtained permission to come to pray in the Santuario for their cousin who was fighting in Russia .
5 Martin Martin notes that on a small rocky island to the south of Skye there is ‘ a great quantity of scurvey-grass , of an extraordinary size , and very thick ; the natives eat it frequently , as well boiled as raw : two of them told me that they happened to be confined there for the space of thirty hours , by a contrary wind ; and being without victuals , fell to eating this scurvey-grass , and finding it of a sweet taste , far different from the land scurvey-grass , they ate a large basketful of it , which did abundantly satisfy their appetites until their return home ’ .
6 Numbers of young women have told me that they look upon life in quite a different light now that they learn that nature has not been so cruel to them , as to give them but the choice of a married life , in which probably all the highest aims of life must be sacrificed , and the wife reduced to the level of a breeding animal , or a life of celibacy .
7 They let me have one last look and told me that it belonged to someone in another band — which made me feel really guilty .
8 After you calmly tell me that I walked through a fucking wall ! ’
9 You may tell me that I went to the wrong place to begin with — and I can now agree .
10 And no one else can say of me that I know in one case and not in the other , because for all I know I am wrong both times .
11 ‘ And she has made the same promise to me that I made to my mum and dad . ’
12 The hon. Gentleman will forgive me if I say that he has the same problem with me that I have with the Whips Office .
13 It is certainly no sadness for me that I live in a house that is open to the public .
14 It so fascinated me that I stopped in the middle of the subway .
15 Yes , your worships I wonder if I may assist the court o on behalf of er M Mrs erm Mrs er has told me that she thought at the time of the incident again was in fact , nearer to five o'clock than than , than four thirty and she was driving from Billington towards Clitheroe she had come through the traffic lights at the bottom of Accrington Road in Worley and she was proceeding along King Street in Worley er , towards towards Clitheroe and sh she has told me that at the time there was a considerable amount of traffic on the road and yo i in fact had that confirmed to you by er , my friend er the the traffic was sufficiently heavy that in fact , the the traffic travelling in the direction of Blackburn er was wai was backed up to the traffic lights as far as the zebra crossing and beyond it and so as Mrs erm was travelling towards Clitheroe her view of the children on the footpath at the opposite side of the road was obstructed by the cars that were er , travelling towards Blackburn .
16 And my sister told me that she met with him after Mass this morning and he gave her an envelope . "
17 Luke told me that she died in a car accident some time ago .
18 She agreed energetically with me that she writes like Galsworthy .
19 People tell me that she looks like me : elegant while concealing an active disposition behind a refined behaviour .
20 ‘ One more thing — Matthew Choak told me that he went to Penzance on Friday night to see the film , Straw Dogs .
21 Dennis told me that he lived in North Oxford , but that was geographical hyperbole .
22 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 .
23 When he told me that he wanted to be an actor like Owen Jones , I was very surprised but instinctively excited and challenged .
24 Saibol speaks Maa in a way which tells me that he comes from the Kisongo of the Ol Doinyo Lengai , yes ?
25 ‘ Now , now , do n't tell me that you put on that dress tonight in all naïveté ? ’ he asked humorously .
26 ‘ And let her know that you cared so little for me that you had to be reminded ?
27 By showing them that they mattered to Him as people He gave them a sense of dignity and released them from their captivity .
28 ‘ Tell them that they waited in the dark for us ? ’
29 What circumcision was to men of faith under the old covenant , assuring them that they belonged to Yahweh , so baptism is to the Christian ; and Colossians 2:11 , 12 brings the two ordinances together round the cross of Christ which alone gives them meaning .
30 In response to the CNAA 's complaint the DES agreed to circularize colleges warning them that they had to be prepared to satisfy CNAA requirements , and indicating that the DES would not be prepared to entertain new courses in excess of likely demand .
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