Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [vb -s] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In fact since Mr Brown made his remarks some parents have rang me to lend their support . ’ |
2 | Now the authorities say she has little chance of getting them back . |
3 | I do know he has some chemicals in there , and I suppose he does experiments or something , but what the room looks like , what he actually does in there , I have no idea . |
4 | So erm amongst the business property that he has he has this warehouse with |
5 | And it is not enough to devote four pages to ‘ sexual orientation ’ and then lamely say it deserves more attention . |
6 | They say it shows little respect for the environment and have managed to pursuade council officials to consider putting preservation orders on the remaining trees . |
7 | Mica says she thinks this show is really good with Tom recording all different types of music throughtout the series and proves that some singers do n't just go on TV to plug their latest hits , but have influencess and do n't mind talking about them . |
8 | I 'll tell you what erm Marion says she likes this drink anyway . |
9 | ‘ Oh Angel — my mother says she knows several cases which were worse than mine , and the husband has not minded much … well , he has accepted it at least . |
10 | She says she needs more time , but we know she is lying . |
11 | She says she loves all animals — but she wo n't put her money where her mouth is . |
12 | I hope she stays that way . ’ |
13 | Let's be fair , now ; I do n't expect it makes much difference to Mrs Morgan , or her cat , " Mr Smith said , and a small smile played over his lips as he glanced at Dan Ashton , who grunted and looked down at his feet while Smith continued , " whether you were joking or in deadly seriousness . " |
14 | He is trying to gauge the interest from developers , and also which set of Windows application programming interfaces it makes most sense for the translator to support : the old Win16 standard , or the intermediate Win32s version . |
15 | He is trying to gauge the interest from developers , and also which set of Windows application programming interfaces it makes most sense for the translator to support : the old Win16 standard , or the intermediate Win32s version . |
16 | Richard says he does some songs , but would n't inflict them on a paying audience . |
17 | And I 'm sure you 've seen where the chief constable says he wants more bobbies on the beat , well perhaps this is a way to a to achieving that . |
18 | He says he has some sympathy with retailers , but at the end of the day it 's up to them to check on the authenticity of the goods they 're selling . |
19 | He says he has some disease . ’ |
20 | But Mr Harper says he needs more help . |
21 | Now he has been promoted and says he needs more time . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | Meanwhile , IXI says it has some deals in its back pocket to put X.desktop on Destiny for some of the USL OEMs — ICL being a likely candidate — see page five . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | A support group for the elderly in north Oxfordshire says it wants more cooperation with the police in helping what it reckons is an increasing number of elderly victims of crime in the area . |
26 | Some anthropologists would counter these examples by arguing that there actually are class-like phenomena in such states ( Terray , 1975 ) , by pointing out the difference in access to the means of production between elders and juniors and men and women , but even if this argument is accepted it gives little support to the general theory in that such ‘ class ’ differences also occur in clearly stateless societies . |
27 | I hope he gets some sleep . ’ |
28 | ‘ Cross your fingers and hope he has another order for me . ’ |
29 | I hope it stays that way . |
30 | Oh , I hope it lifts this fog today and we have a bit of sun . |