Example sentences of "says [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It says its got 43 distributors worldwide and 150 major hardware and software vendors shipping or announcing availability of their products for UnixWare . |
| 2 | It says its had fewer visitors , and that in turn has led to a fall in essential income . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 … |
| 5 | She says she preferred this version because it follows the novel more closely . |
| 6 | It is not the best of assignments , says one experienced blue-beret wearer , but it is still better than Lebanon . |
| 7 | Boswell 's account says they rode two miles to the shore to find a herring-boat which would take them out to Raasay . |
| 8 | He says they got some men in a van and tried to burn them . |
| 9 | He says they caused considerable damage to property , hedgerows were burned out , buildings affected , farmers ' own equipment set on fire and their own crops . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | The report says they found large numbers of chemicals being dumped which were NOT licensed to be discharged . |
| 12 | He says he saw one person fall but he was n't hrut and it seems safe . |
| 13 | He says he saw one job but that 's already gone and that was last week . |
| 14 | 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 … |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | MINTO : Paxford says the B set is easier ; Paxford says he got forty stations on it : he made it work beautifully . |
| 18 | Mr Tomlinson says he spent two months solidly working from 5.30am in the morning until 10.30 in the evening , including weekends . |
| 19 | He says he spent two weeks in hospital when he was helpless and that brought it all home to him . |
| 20 | Hanna was very interested in our latest developments for vertical take-off and Mickie says he spent some time discussing this subject with her . |
| 21 | The Department of Transport report says he made several errors while demonstrating a hover manoevre resulting in the crash . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He says he bought another Amiga . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It says it rejected earlier offers of Fondiaria 's shares as too expensive . |
| 29 | DEC says it delayed any announcement until now so there would be meat on the bones , not just promises . |
| 30 | 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 . |