Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Erm Oh has anybody got any receipts to give to me ?
2 At no time in its long history of seven hundred years has Parliament governed , nor save for a brief period when the Constitution broke down in the seventeenth century has it made any claim to do so .
3 Nor has he provided any evidence to support his belief that cholera is spread in drinking water .
4 Has he got that thing going ?
5 Has he got any customers left ?
6 These rooms are nothing but a dangerous hazard for the adventurers , and best avoided , unless you are using an adventure theme which forces them to enter these terrains to regain some lost object or person ( see Adventures in Castle Drachenfels ) .
7 He says I think most people think of flowers as looking pretty and smelling beautiful .
8 As it happens we got that shipment delivered eventually though some of the perishables had gone off .
9 The jaw bears one pointed apical papilla flanked by up to 5 block-like , contiguous oral papillae .
10 He says they 've other towns to look at .
11 He says they have 81 families waiting to move into service accomodation .
12 He says they want more consultants to increase the work they do .
13 Bird Semple Fyfe Ireland has commissioned a piece of 4GL software which will be unique to the firm in the Scottish legal world and which allows it to produce any report required either for management purposes or for clients .
14 Claire says she started climbing with her brothers and Allan says he saw some people climbing when he was youth hostelling and thought that 's the sport for me …
15 Two sons aged fifteen and four , and a daughter of one year old , were mentioned in the 1871 census , but A. W. Humphrey ( see below ) says he had five children to support .
16 Hanna was very interested in our latest developments for vertical take-off and Mickie says he spent some time discussing this subject with her .
17 Meanwhile Mr Dauncey says he wants stable owners to get together to force positive action on a growing problem .
18 In Nicodemus , Kansas , the sole remaining town of black settlers on the plains , Mr Frazier says he found true joy watching the people at a dance .
19 Praxis says it took less time to install the ANDF version of the program than the 15 minutes it takes to compile the C sources of Wingz .
20 Univel Inc , which last week closed its first full quarter booking orders , says it has 500 resellers signed and another 2,000 US , 1,000 PacRim and 1,000 European resellers going through the process .
21 Seymour Cray is still hopeful of bringing his crippled Cray Computer Corp safely in to land , and this week told shareholders that the pay-off will come not with the Cray-3 , but with the Cray-4 the company is developing — ‘ People who predict that things ca n't be done — I guess I do n't have time for them , ’ he told shareholders sternly — ‘ That 's the challenge that I 'm willing to accept in trying to do things that ca n't be done ’ ; the Cray-3 was launched last month , a decade after Cray started work on it , but the Cray-4 is expected to offer twice the performance at half the cost , and the company hopes to demonstrate it by year-end ; it says it has enough cash to fund operations into September and says it is working with two investment banking firms on fund-raising strategies .
22 One delegation from Oxford City Council says it needs more cash to serve an extra thirteen thousand people whose homes now fall within the the city boundaries .
23 Before moving on to the next section , it is perhaps worth pointing out that the analysis just presented also allows us to handle certain uses related to the infinitive of reaction where the nexus between the infinitive and the main clause is much looser than in the canonical cases discussed above in ( 11 ) — ( 16 ) : ( 28 ) I was stunned , to see him lose .
24 He checks I got enough money to buy the string , and then I go off .
25 Midway between the excitation electrodes we placed two ring electrodes with an interelectrode distance of 0.2 cm for measurement of impedance .
26 The Times Educational Supplement applauded the increased use of intelligence tests and deplored the existing exams : ‘ Some day our successors may come to marvel at the degree of assurance which leads us to think that ability to profit can be predicted thus .
27 Mill thinks we need certain safeguards to make sure that unworthy rulers do n't present themselves .
28 When you have lined up your data in this way a glance will tell you for which sounds you have enough words to make check lists .
29 Seems I recall some beer cans out there with frost on the top . ’
30 Such reading is invaluable because it not only consolidates what learners already know , it helps them to develop that general feel for a language which can give such a boost to the learning process .
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