Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [pers pn] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He shows me that he is nervous . |
| 2 | ‘ He assures me that he can not pay this amount as he has a wife and two children to keep on Army pay . |
| 3 | ‘ He assures us that he maintained his dignity despite a lot of verbal encouragement to bare all . ’ |
| 4 | Ann Macpherson knows that her son is troubled , and he tells her that he is under pressure from Jacqueline . |
| 5 | He tells me that there were once herds of antelope , thousands strong , roaming these plains . |
| 6 | He laughs as he tells me that it was very pretentious , but that when there were eleven gardeners ‘ it was OK to live in you know , especially during the war when you had all the people from Russia and Poland and so on ’ . |
| 7 | He tells me that it is a dead cert , we can make an absolute killing by taking a percentage of the profits , and charging pitch holders a rip-off rent . |
| 8 | I have been in correspondence with him since then and he tells me that it would not be possible to give enforcement ’ high priority ’ . |
| 9 | He tells me that I sound strange , just a little strange , as strange as the time of night . |
| 10 | He tells them that we are getting somewhere now and it 's time we heard your version but there 's no need to hurry because we have all the time in the world . |
| 11 | He tells them that I have not gone , |
| 12 | They each fall utterly under his spell and promise to obey him in everything , whereupon he tells them that he has to go on a journey and gives them the keys of his magnificent house but forbids them to enter a room which is opened by a particular little key . |
| 13 | So he tells you that there was some , some sympathy towards Jesus through this on the Sanhedrin . |
| 14 | The third and final volume is devoted to quantum theory and there he tells us that its first chapter will tackle the basic element of the mysterious behaviour in its most strange form . |
| 15 | In fact he took neither course ; in his own account — in The Prelude — he gives the impression of a drifter , ‘ detached from academic cares ’ , and he tells us that he ‘ did not love … our scholastic studies ’ . |
| 16 | In The Prelude ( though one could argue that Wordsworth is writing after meeting Coleridge ) , he tells us that he felt these emotions as early |
| 17 | He tells us that he ‘ spent months researching ’ ( citations from his letter , The Art Newspaper No. 22 , October 1992 , p.3 ) the texts which he uses in his work at the Neue Galerie at Kassel and he criticises me for ‘ forgetting ’ these texts which took him so long to research , even though they are clearly mentioned in the second , fourth and fifth paragraphs of my article which comprises only seven paragraphs . |
| 18 | He spent a good deal of time in his satires , presenting himself as a satirist — unplaced , unpensioned , no man 's heir or slave he proudly describes himself as he tells us that he 's willing to lash out at even the most eminent public figures . |
| 19 | Mr. Thorpe is the 47th patient to receive this form of new treatment and he tells us that his medical condition has dramatically improved . |
| 20 | He tells us that there are three things he does not think acupuncture can cure : existential Angst , low self-esteem and love sickness . |
| 21 | Comforting a sad and discouraged Louise ( March 27th , 1853 ) , he reminds her that we are all caged birds , and that life weighs the heaviest on those with the largest wings : ‘ We are all to a greater or lesser degree eagles or canaries , parrots or vultures . |
| 22 | He reminds us that it is easy to make mistakes with footprints : a few years ago , he said when reviewing a recent book on dinosaur tracks for an educational journal , a track appearing to show long , very fast strides consisted in reality of left footprints only , so the real stride length was only half the apparent one . |