Example sentences of "[pers pn] that he [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One more thing — Matthew Choak told me that he went to Penzance on Friday night to see the film , Straw Dogs . |
| 2 | Dennis told me that he lived in North Oxford , but that was geographical hyperbole . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When he told me that he wanted to be an actor like Owen Jones , I was very surprised but instinctively excited and challenged . |
| 5 | Saibol speaks Maa in a way which tells me that he comes from the Kisongo of the Ol Doinyo Lengai , yes ? |
| 6 | They were shown round by a Père Obein whose calm wisdom and urbanity so impressed them that he remained for them a touchstone of good sense . |
| 7 | I can tell you that he lived at number forty-one I think , yes forty- one if , if you know if you want any confirmation , that is correct . |
| 8 | He covets your practice , and in order to get it he 'll play the same trick on you that he played on me . ’ |
| 9 | and in Le Vilain asnier : ( And through this I wish to show you that he acts without sense or measure who , through pride , acts beyond his nature : nobody should disnature himself . ) |
| 10 | he was right at the height of his Anthony Newley hang-up , so one problem was constantly reminding him that he sounded like Anthony Newley and trying to ‘ de-Newleyfy ’ him if you could . |
| 11 | Only the mouth told him that he looked on the face of his friend . |
| 12 | She told him that he had to be successful and then she made it impossible for him . |
| 13 | I was that busy trying to convince him that he had to er go to doctors cos I says what did they actually do ? |
| 14 | As he approaches the city on the freeway the same old restless excitement stirs in him that he felt on that first apocalyptic evening all those years ago . |
| 15 | She was so aware of him that he seemed to be touching her from a long way off . |
| 16 | It was recorded of him that he sang with the monks in the divine offices ; when taunted by the king for his clerkly tastes , he responded that an illiterate king was a crowned ass ( a cliché much favoured in twelfth-century Angevin circles , for it sprang from a sense of family superiority — the counts of Anjou were , by any standards , learned men ) . |
| 17 | It is characteristic of him that he transmitted to us a document which gave the number of the soldiers in the Roman army about 225 B.C. and added the number of the men of military age but not under arms : the document distinguished between Roman citizens and allies , and gave specific figures for the main groups of allies ( 2.23–4 ) . |
| 18 | Stavrogin , needling away , elicits from him that he believes in Russia and the Orthodox Church and the body of Christ . |
| 19 | He also contrived to marry several times , on one occasion to a shrewish wench who so exasperated him that he leapt upon her and gave her such a beating that she held her peace thereafter . |
| 20 | It had never occurred to her that he came from the sort of background where servants were a matter of course and all one had to do in order to eat was pull a bell . |
| 21 | He spent the black hours best in the writing of hopelessly happy propositions to her that he kept for comfort in a drawer , as if they were love letters received from her instead of dead ones from himself that he saw no good in posting . |
| 22 | He had told her that he had to be quick on the phone because his literary editor was listening to him . |
| 23 | Catherine seemed to be unconscious , and Mr Edgar was so worried about her that he forgot about Heathcliff for the moment . |
| 24 | He used to listen to American Football on the American Forces Network and was so enthused with it that he wrote to the American Embassy , who invited him to visit them for the day . |
| 25 | He was a protégé of Sir William Chambers , who saw to it that he worked in every artistic department , including that of interior decoration , before he designed his first house at the age of eighteen . |
| 26 | In fact so engrossed with her movements was he that he bumped into a young woman who was struggling with an impossibly heavy suitcase . |
| 27 | The Office tells us that he arranged for his sister to meet him in a nearby wood and to bring with her two of her over-dresses , one white and one grey , and his father 's rainhood . |
| 28 | He told us that he expected to be posted to the front at some time in the next few weeks but he would still be home by Christmas ; an officer had told him that the bloody Huns would have been sent packing long before then . |
| 29 | The admirable Charlie , an FA vice-president , tells us that he bowed to local pressure by wearing a handsome red tie with the appropriate initials SAFC . |