Example sentences of "say it [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MIPS says it made a strong effort at the beginning to get the SCO on very favourable terms but the sponsorship just was n't there . |
| 2 | Now 43 , she is married with a two-year-old daughter and says it took a long time to settle down to a ‘ normal life ’ . |
| 3 | D&B says it evaluated a dozen query tools before deciding on Microsoft Access , which proved more user friendly than any of the others , and does n't require SQL programming skills . |
| 4 | The more things change , the more they stay the same : taking a leaf from our own book , InformationWeek says it procured an internal IBM memo written June 26 by the director of advanced workstations and AIX systems Jeff Mason telling staffers not to push System/3x users to the RS/6000 , which he himself is responsible for , for fear of undercutting sales of the company 's highly profitable higher margin AS/400s . |
| 5 | Siemens AG says it won a Bulgarian contract worth more than $6.3m to modernise and expand the country 's telephone systems : Siemens will deliver more than 80,000 EWSD digital exchange lines and fibre cable : its Digicom Bulgarian joint venture set up last year with a local partner , will install the kit in Sophia and in northern Bulgaria by 1996 . |
| 6 | Dun says it weighed a dozen query tools before deciding on Microsoft Access , which proved more user friendly than any of the others , and does n't need SQL programming skills . |
| 7 | San Diego-based GTI Corp , majority owned by Telemetrix Plc , responded to a $1.50 fall in its share price to $21.75 on Friday by saying it saw no fundamental reason for it , adding that it expects to report ‘ continuing positive results ’ this quarter after four quarters of increases of 100% or more . |
| 8 | In latter times , Philip II of Spain adopted the heraldic device of Bellerophon attacking the chimera , saying it represented the heretical England which he , also , intended to destroy . |
| 9 | While he was inside , however , the Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down the state law , saying it violated the first-amendment guarantee of free speech . |
| 10 | The Crown Princess of Jordan opened an exhibition of his work saying it captured the real colour of life . |
| 11 | Some of the sacked workers were delighted at news of the departure , saying it removed a major obstacle to settling the bitter five-month row . |
| 12 | I 'm glad to say it got a thorough sort of leathering in the Lords , and so I think it 's rather premature for him to say that by fixing a budget we have belighted the whole police service in Wiltshire , for the next er , eight or whatever number of years he said , I think that certainly is rather premature . |
| 13 | I took this to be a dream of fear of exposure due to approaching First Night , but Amy looked it up in her Dictionary of Dreams under ‘ defecate ’ ( sorry about that ) and she said it meant a huge windfall ( that too ) . |
| 14 | Commenting on another storming quarter — figures , page seven — Microsoft Corp , whose third quarter earnings of $0.80 a share were above consensus analyst estimates of $0.78 for the period , warned that fourth quarter growth in profits would be less impressive — ‘ One of the things that 's different in this fourth quarter is we do n't have this kicker product , the icing on the cake , ’ said Microsoft investor relations chief Raymond Ferguson ; Microsoft said it shipped a record-breaking 2m MS-DOS 6 retail upgrade copies in the two weeks since it hit the market , but the company said they would be pleased if fourth-quarter revenues rose by half the roughly 20% sequential quarterly rate of recent years , when Microsoft has benefited from upgrade versions of Windows 3.0 , MS-DOS 5 and then Windows 3.1 ; it is still likely to see its first billion dollar quarter this time ; during the fiscal third quarter , sales of applications , which accounted for 61% of total revenues in the period , leaped 63% over year-ago levels to $580m , and Microsoft ended the quarter with $2,000m in cash ; shipment of Windows NT is on schedule for late June following a late May unveiling , the firm said . |
| 15 | I merely said it avoided the real issue . ’ |
| 16 | In a joint press conference with Darlington borough council , the YMCA said it hoped the 30-bed hostel in Melland Street , off Borough Road would be open in spring , 1994 . |
| 17 | She said it made a real change to have a bit of humour round the place . |
| 18 | The insolent way she said it made the other girls gasp with astonishment . |
| 19 | Morse said it lent a new meaning to the phrase ‘ keeping a shop ’ . ’ |
| 20 | Forecasting nil growth in the market this year , the company said it expected a slight upturn in the final quarter of 1993 but its total truck sales would not exceed last year 's 32,000 . |
| 21 | He said it cost a vast amount to build each new mile of motorway . |
| 22 | Tory Bill Walker said it showed the German nation in its true colours . |
| 23 | Shell said it appeared the 3,625 ton Danish refrigerated cargo ship Icestar had a fouled propeller . |