Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] have [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | and she goes I 've had enough questions for one day , I said it plenty of times she said oh shut up you wee wally |
2 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
3 | she says so I thought if I buy you one she says you give me them two , I says whoa hang on a minute , I says I 've got two windows |
4 | I 'm with you yeah , see Sam 's got some learning , when he comes to spellings to me , again I would , I would print yeah , he only scrawled that down last night , he says I 've got some spellings on sports mum , I said do you know any of 'em ? , he said no , I said when 's you test ? , he says Friday , well I got ta book on all sports and then I read it because sports and you think hockey 's one of them , oh yeah , racket , which is spelt wrong I 've had to , I think it 's got a U in , but again I mean sometimes , I mean I 'm a good speller , I do n't know about you , but I look at them sometimes and I have to go and get the dictionary have to check em |
5 | he says , he says I 've put ten pounds ' worth of petrol in the car every week and there 's not one of them says there 's a couple of pound towards the petrol or nowt |
6 | My doctor says I 've to avoid smoky environments |
7 | ‘ Guido says I have to do six hours every day . |
8 | The NHS is one of the main election issues for Lynne , who says she has seen many changes in the service over the last ten years . |
9 | His wife , Anna , says she 's had four letters from him since his arrest before Christmas , but she has no knowledge of any appeal . |
10 | If he says you 've got six children and you work at the local factory , you do , yes ? |
11 | A spokesman for thamesdown Borough Council admitted there is a backlog in housing benefit claims , but says they 've introduced new measures to clear it . |
12 | She says they 've got good facilites and can cater for children up to 16 . |
13 | Well Mark says they 've got twenty songs prepared like . |
14 | She says they 've got these guys and it 's all right now , I can come out . |
15 | Mr Walden says he 's received numerous letters since the Iraqi invasion two months ago , and felt it important to take the opportunity to talk with the people he represents . |
16 | Chris , who runs the Oxford School of Learning , says he 's had some students who 've passed the exam in a week . |
17 | He says he 's got four children . |
18 | Yeah well Pam says he 's got three days holiday . |
19 | He prides himself on a forthright nature and says he has asked more questions than any other MP in the House . |
20 | Now in his late 40s Mr Rees says he has seen many changes in attitude to transsexuals in the 20 years since he first asked for treatment . |
21 | The NuTek motherboard and system software are available now to dealers and other resellers at $900 and the company says it has accepted initial orders from dealers in Europe and will sign dealers in the US this month . |
22 | The Posix group is working on an industry standard for multi-threading architectures which should be completed by the end of the year ( UX No 397 ) — SunSoft says it has implemented all specifications that have already been drafted . |
23 | It also says it has received new supplies of needed parts and should meet current demand on most products during this quarter . |
24 | Fremont , California-based Cirrus Logic Inc says it has received two shareholders ' class action lawsuits alleging it violated US securities laws ; in the usual phrase , it dismisses them as without merit and intends to contest them vigorously . |
25 | The Wall Street Journal has been going through Richardson , Texas-based Cyrix Corp 's prospectus for its proposed initial public offering ( page seven ) and finds that the company has a hitherto undisclosed dispute with Texas Instruments Inc over licensing and manufacturing issues — Cyrix says it has received limited supplies of chips from Texas , and as a result ‘ assumes it will not receive any products from Texas Instruments in the future ’ ; the dispute could give Texas , which has a licence to sell Cyrix-designed chips under its own name , the right to sell all current and some future Cyrix products through the term of the five-year agreement , making it harder for Cyrix to develop its own brand name identity ; the current manufacturing agreement with SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV would be able to meet its needs to the end of the year , after which it would need to buy its own manufacturing facility , expand its contracts with the two firms , or do a deal with another chip maker ; earlier this month , SGS-Thomson signed a new contract agreeing to supply chips to Cyrix to the end of 1994 , and gets the right to sell Cyrix-designed chips under its own name . |
26 | The team working on the Elton project says it 's had definite results — increasing some children 's concentration and that they join in more than before . |
27 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what plans he has to consult local authorities on housing requirements for ex-service personnel . |
28 | I reckons she 's got blinking piles . |
29 | There 's new hopes for the stalled Middle East peace process as the Palestine Liberation Organization confirms it 's held direct talks with the Israeli government . |
30 | He reckons he 's got six pounds you know and it 's just so distracting . |