Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] [vb -s] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So erm amongst the business property that he has he has this warehouse with |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I 'll tell you what erm Marion says she likes this drink anyway . |
| 4 | She says she gets bad asthma and ca n't swallow very easily , which means it takes her ages to eat her meals . |
| 5 | She says she needs more time , but we know she is lying . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ He says he likes Long Way Home very much indeed . |
| 9 | Steve says he gets great satisfaction out of it and making one par in a round of 18 makes it worthwhile . |
| 10 | He says he thinks indoor opera performances at a hundred and sixty pounds a ticket will still be popular , but now outdoor opera in beautiful settings with opera stars and clasical musicians are also becoming very popular . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Herr Lothar De Maiziere of the Conservative Alliance says he wants East-West German relations cemented soon with the introduction of the Mark . |
| 13 | She says he gives tremendous verve and gaiety in his speech . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He says he has some disease . ’ |
| 16 | But Mr Harper says he needs more help . |
| 17 | Now he has been promoted and says he needs more time . |
| 18 | In fact , he says he needs written permission a week in advance before delivery lorries can get to his home . |
| 19 | ‘ Hilary Frome says he sees old Garfitt round the back door of the baker 's on her way to school in the mornings , ’ chimed in Pickerage . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Atari says it takes legal action against as many pirates as it can find , and has two big prosecutions pending at the moment . |
| 22 | Ancor says it has extensive expertise in the research and design of components that meet the Fibre Channel Standard specification , and the initial activities will involve use of high-speed switching chips and software technologies from Ancor and related technologies from IBM . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB 's Ericsson Corp says it sees cellular telephone unit sales growing 30% to 40% this year from the current 20m in use worldwide , half in the US . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Commenting on its figures ( page seven ) , National Semiconductor Corp says it expects fourth quarter gross margins to improve over third quarter margins and that third quarter worldwide orders set a new record , up 40% over last year , and that it entered the fourth quarter with an improved backlog — record OEM orders more than offset seasonal weaknesses in distribution to give record orders for the Americas ; European orders were up while Japanese markets weakened slightly . |
| 28 | Because the neutrons are not slowed by any moderator at fast speeds it breeds further plutonium in the blanket of uranium which surrounds the reactor core . |
| 29 | We call him ‘ gangling Chang ’ to distinguish him from the other Changs , because he is tall , thin , loose-limbed , and is ready to laugh about anything , although it appears he has some family problems in that his wife is away and his baby son is ill . |
| 30 | If the dieter feels she needs extra guidance or added structure to meal planning , she can always refer back to the suggested meals for good nutrition that we gave at the end of Chapter 4 . |