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