Example sentences of "[pers pn] that he [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Salmon told me that he 'd heard the best barrows were being sold off in the Old Kent Road , on account of the fact that so many young lads were heeding Kitchener 's cry and joining up to fight for King and country . |
| 2 | ‘ … and you see , when Hitler became bosoms with Stalin just before this stupid war started — I still think it 's a stupid war — it dawned on me that he 'd made a nonsense of my belief in him . ’ |
| 3 | And the first letter told me that he 'd got stomach upset . |
| 4 | He told me that he 'd got a good home , or he 'd had a good home , and he just I said why do n't you live there ? |
| 5 | Afterwards he told me that he 'd thought I was going to start a revolution there and then . |
| 6 | I was gon na say er somebody told me that he 'd left and I thought it was you cos nobody would . |
| 7 | The Chief-Corporal to whom I had given my sisters ' addresses at Canjuers was there , and he told me that he had sent my oldest sister a photograph of himself in a tank and one of his apartment in La Rochelle . |
| 8 | Yes I I was erm the additional information that was available to me at this time , er Sergeant the er having left me the previous night er had actually , had gone to the premises erm , gone to the flats erm and had er put himself in the area of the flat and was able to tell me that he had heard voices , two male voices coming from within the flat . |
| 9 | As he told me that he had killed perhaps ten , eleven or twelve people during the course of the war . |
| 10 | It struck me as odd at the time , and when Harry Collins told me that he had asked for a morning appointment it seemed even odder . ’ |
| 11 | He told me that he had fallen into the water with Compeyson , and then been hit by the ship . |
| 12 | He told me that he had said to Ivy that he hoped between the three of us we might make head or tail of it , and she said , ‘ Well , we are three intelligent people , so I ca n't see why we should have any difficulty . ’ |
| 13 | She stopped and bit her lip , then , seeing Sophie 's colour rising , she added , ‘ Edward told me that he had seen you and Robert kissing out on the balcony . ’ |
| 14 | He asked me if I could arrange for somebody thoroughly trustworthy to visit the premises , telling me that he had given the key to a neighbour . |
| 15 | When he told me that he had inherited the cardinal 's robes of his predecessor , Cardinal Heenan , and I asked if they fitted , he said , ‘ No . |
| 16 | When I phoned Kagan he told me that he had instructed his trustees in Israel to make the payment , but by some terrible misunderstanding they had paid it into the wrong charity . ’ |
| 17 | My surgeon had told me that he had taken out all he could find . |
| 18 | But if I were a teenager and I saw a TV star telling me that he had taken coke , I would reckon that there must be a reason why the famous spend a fortune on this drug . |
| 19 | A first-year physics student told me that he had thought of transferring to an arts subject , maybe psychology , in the first few weeks , because : |
| 20 | A friend of mine who is a car trader rang me and told me that he had found the car I was looking for . |
| 21 | He began to tell me the difficulties of his life at home , and finally he told me that he had tried more than once to find a home with another brother or sister , but they had persuaded him to return to Cis and Elfed . |
| 22 | Brother George told me that he had persuaded Eliot to include the passage in The Waste Land about the seduction of the ‘ bored and tired ’ typist by the small house-agent 's clerk , because he ( George ) thought that the young men ought to know a little more about the facts of life . |
| 23 | Émile Chaillot told me that he had telephoned the writer and spoken to him for a good seven minutes about what was going on in the music world . |
| 24 | He told me that he had come to the Legion so that he could kill people without going to prison . |
| 25 | Some months later it dawned on me that he had put his hands on my head and what this implied ! |
| 26 | ‘ But my father told me that he had sold his interest in the business ! |
| 27 | gentleman came to this house it seemed to be that he challenged the establishment and many of us welcomes that view it seemed to give a breath of fresh air , but now it seems to me that he 's become entirely institutionalised , can he explain that to the house ? |
| 28 | Bud Collins , one of America 's leading tennis commentators and writers , who wrote the foreword , assures me that he has seen Wegner prove the point by teaching newcomers from seven to seventy keep a reasonable rally going within two hours of them first picking up a racket . |
| 29 | Hamill assured them that he had sent telegrams on their behalf to Terence O'Neill and Harold Wilson protesting about the incident at the Guildhall . |
| 30 | Wyn smiled , perhaps remembering those tales himself , or some connection with them that he had witnessed in the wood . |