Example sentences of "say [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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31 | He says they caused considerable damage to property , hedgerows were burned out , buildings affected , farmers ' own equipment set on fire and their own crops . |
32 | The officer says they found stolen chequebooks , 38 chequecards , and a quantity of drugs like LSD and cannabis , as well as other items such as computer equipment |
33 | The report says they found large numbers of chemicals being dumped which were NOT licensed to be discharged . |
34 | He says he saw one person fall but he was n't hrut and it seems safe . |
35 | He says he saw one job but that 's already gone and that was last week . |
36 | Claire says she started climbing with her brothers and Allan says he saw some people climbing when he was youth hostelling and thought that 's the sport for me … |
37 | 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 . |
38 | Terry B says he had some treatment and lots of help from friends … he goes to meetings every week and he 's enjoying life and taking one day at a time … he 's had one innings and is now enjoying his second |
39 | MINTO : Paxford says the B set is easier ; Paxford says he got forty stations on it : he made it work beautifully . |
40 | Mr Tomlinson says he spent two months solidly working from 5.30am in the morning until 10.30 in the evening , including weekends . |
41 | He says he spent two weeks in hospital when he was helpless and that brought it all home to him . |
42 | Hanna was very interested in our latest developments for vertical take-off and Mickie says he spent some time discussing this subject with her . |
43 | The Department of Transport report says he made several errors while demonstrating a hover manoevre resulting in the crash . |
44 | 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 . |
45 | Father-of-three Mr Simon says he regretted fitting moto-cross motorcycle tyres , which for all but about 100metres of the rally were the wrong choice . |
46 | He says he bought another Amiga . |
47 | In Nicodemus , Kansas , the sole remaining town of black settlers on the plains , Mr Frazier says he found true joy watching the people at a dance . |
48 | The man who says he named both pieces of software is former 386BSD project leader and principal developer of BSD 2.8 and 2.9 , Bill Jolitz . |
49 | Philips Electronics NV says it sold 100,000 CD-I players in 1992 , but expects the market to mushroom in the next two years , with a doubling this year , and a trebling of that in 1994 — 600,000 in other words . |
50 | It says it rejected earlier offers of Fondiaria 's shares as too expensive . |
51 | DEC says it delayed any announcement until now so there would be meat on the bones , not just promises . |
52 | Praxis says it took less time to install the ANDF version of the program than the 15 minutes it takes to compile the C sources of Wingz . |
53 | Intel says it saw strong demand in the US and Japan , where orders rose significantly as the market was stimulated by lower personal computer prices . |
54 | Vicom says it incurred massive debt during the development its own proprietary visualisation line whilst at the same time taking over Sun 's products , and could n't attract the new development capital it required . |
55 | A precise chronology is impossible , but Bede says it was in 653 — by which 654 may need to be understood , for Bede also says it occurred two years before the death of Penda ( in 655 or 656 ) — that Peada was converted ( HE V , 24 ) . |
56 | like that , and he said it was ever so funny , he took fifty up there because , I bet he told you about the money betting and all that and he 's said he bet fifty pound , he thought christ he said , I was bloody lucky he said I , I had the , I said well David . |
57 | The UN had not said he deserved political asylum . |
58 | Are you saying you found illegal drugs on this property ? ’ |
59 | ‘ I 'm not saying we became best buddies because we never did , ’ says Penny . |
60 | Well well I I as I er as both myself and my wife understood it , everything had been paid and then obviously when we got the letter saying we owed this amount of money it did n't come to light till Mr and Mrs came to see you |