Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the third man goes I want ten years ' supply of cigarettes . |
| 2 | Perhaps if you perhaps if you hang on a minute , erm well Jacqueline want wants me to answer one question for her . |
| 3 | The new angle is sitting in front of a client who specifies we maintain six choices right to the end of service . |
| 4 | Project experiments have shown that any sound can be distracting as long has it has two characteristics : that is varies on content and that the stream of sound can be broken up ( or segmented ) into separate entities . |
| 5 | Why has it taken forty years for agriculture to be incorporated . |
| 6 | He is thin really cos he looks , he looks he looks twenty years older than me . |
| 7 | ITV also announced this week that , with the agreement of the Football League , they had taken out the Arsenal v Liverpool match from the fixtures for February 24 and it would be played at a later date , invoking a clause in their contract with the League that allows them to use three matches a season in this way . |
| 8 | Its dual chart is an attractive option in that it allows you to link two pie or bar chart charts or a pie and a bar chart — as illustrated here ( DUALGRPH ) It also offers Word charts — a variety that it is unusual to find in a spreadsheet but very welcome given that you can use the graphics facilities of SuperCalc 5.5 to prepare slides suitable for use as a presentation to an audience . |
| 9 | A joint application allows you to borrow 3½ times the higher annual salary plus a sum equivalent to the lower salary ; or 2½ times your joint income . |
| 10 | Lotus 1-2-3 for Windows allows you to use eight fonts per worksheet . |
| 11 | ( EMBEDGPH ) While on the subject of graphs , Symphony now allows you to use 12 series in a graph and there are eight new chart types . |
| 12 | This allows you to have two drives ( A + B ) of the same size . |
| 13 | Half load The half-load facility allows you to wash six place settings using just one basket ( usually the bottom one ) without wasting detergent , water or energy . |
| 14 | A LONE woman driver says she waited six hours to be rescued by the RAC when her car broke down on a motorway at night . |
| 15 | Melanie Simmonite says she started 20 years ago … her husband did it so it was a case of you ca n't beat them join them … |
| 16 | She says she has 17 kids like this right now . |
| 17 | Boswell 's account says they rode two miles to the shore to find a herring-boat which would take them out to Raasay . |
| 18 | He says they have 2 kinds of bite : a ’ go away ’ bite and the bite they give when they think you 're food . |
| 19 | He says they have 81 families waiting to move into service accomodation . |
| 20 | ‘ But I know that Martin was keen to show what he can do in Australia because his three-year contract with Wigan only allows him to spend one summer abroad . |
| 21 | He says he saw one person fall but he was n't hrut and it seems safe . |
| 22 | He says he saw one job but that 's already gone and that was last week . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | MINTO : Paxford says the B set is easier ; Paxford says he got forty stations on it : he made it work beautifully . |
| 25 | Mr Tomlinson says he spent two months solidly working from 5.30am in the morning until 10.30 in the evening , including weekends . |
| 26 | He says he spent two weeks in hospital when he was helpless and that brought it all home to him . |
| 27 | Immediate matters arising from the appointment of Louis Gerstner as the next chairman and chief executive of IBM Corp : Gerstner says he made three IBM executive decisions — all of them undisclosed — during the five-block walk from the Midtown Manhattan Hilton where the announcement of his appointment was made and IBM 's Madison Avenue offices ; and while many say that it has looked to be that way for most of this year , it seems that for a couple of days , IBM really will be leaderless , because John Akers says he will resign at today 's board meeting , and Gerstner is not due to take up his posts until Thursday . |
| 28 | Frankly she goes , she goes yeah he 's alright she said but he 's too two faced and I said that does n't sound like him , I said I thought he was quite nice and she goes yeah well he is she says he says one thing to you and then you find out that he 's said something completely different and you hear another side of it . |
| 29 | WHEN Graham Gabriel says he needs three actors who can learn lines quickly and accurately he is not being over-dramatic . |
| 30 | Dallas-based Texas Instruments Inc says it plans 1993 capital spending of $650m , a rise of $220m from a year ago , in anticipation of double-digit growth in the world semiconductor market this year , including 25 pct in the US market ; it expects the Japanese semiconductor market to grow at 5% this year , with the Japanese economy beginning ‘ slow recovery ’ in the second half ; it said it has shipped more than 100,000 of its new SuperSparcs in a year , and expects to release several client-server products this year ; commenting on first quarter figures ( page seven ) , it added that software revenues for the first quarter were lower than expected , leading to a small loss in its information technology business ; it continues to see strong demand for notebook computers and printers . |