Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] [conj] says " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay , you have a to do section , you have an appointments schedule , you have a box at the left-hand bottom , that says phone calls , and you have a box at the right-hand corner that says expenses and reimbursement record . |
| 2 | When you 're away from your base and somebody is fielding your calls for you , give them this pad , and ask them to record the calls in this pad , then you can just tick that box on the right-hand side that says calls to answer , erm , and insert the pages as you need to into the daytimer . |
| 3 | But manager Gerry Murphy reckons their first ever piece of silverware will be the Junior Cup and says Carlisle 's coaching is one of the reasons why . |
| 4 | Madonna sits confidently in the eye of the swirling controversy and says , ‘ They do n't get the joke . ’ |
| 5 | It reckons Unix will continue to dominate in the technical arena and says OS/2 will flourish at corporate sites where personal computer communications are important . |
| 6 | He resigned to join the private sector and says there was a massive demonstration of at least 5,000 women , marching in his favour , on London 's Hampstead Heath . |
| 7 | And one day it 's an ordinary day — he comes home in the usual way and says , ‘ I 'm dying ; I 'll be dead in a year or so . ’ |
| 8 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 9 | He feels more affinity with the Beltex than the French Texel and says the word ‘ Beltex ’ has been conjured up by UK interests . |
| 10 | The wet snuffle that says : I 'm trying to suppress my tears … |
| 11 | I mean in the excitement of buying a car you 're not going to read the small print , you 're not going to read the little bit that says you must have the oil changed every three thousand miles and unless you do it within two hundred and fifty miles of that and not only that , you must send evidence of the service by recorded delivery to you . |
| 12 | The council believes the change of use would be detrimental to adjoining occupiers and the surrounding area and says that there is already an existing taxi office use approved for premises nearby in Bowesfield Lane . |
| 13 | She comes with the reluctant insouciance that says , ‘ You may have paid for me but you do n't own me . ’ |
| 14 | This goes against the general rule that says the bigger the band , the longer and more excruciatingly dull , the soundcheck . |
| 15 | Whether or not you have a dog , display a sign on the front gate that says ‘ Beware of the dog ’ . |
| 16 | She calls it the magic flannel and says : ‘ Mummy you 'll be fine . |
| 17 | Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev says he regrets the demise of the Soviet Union but says it would be impossible to bring back . |
| 18 | The ministry of agriculture has carried out successful trials on the new tests but says the government has yet to make a final decision on wether to fully adopt the new system . |
| 19 | Usually there is a section of the report which lists the initiatives taken by the voluntary sector and says they are generally admirable and deserving of continued support . |
| 20 | Thames Water has already bought five houses on the proposed site and says it will still buy those affected at the going market rate . |
| 21 | those contacts exist erm I ant anticipate publicity in communicating with local schools and other institutions and things like that and there after merely maintaining some kind of a a a regular advertisement slot in the local paper that says , Yes I 'm still here , because people forget . |
| 22 | In his home town , Mr Edwards is a noted singer and says that he wants to go down in the programme as performing a selection of songs from Carousel and also Holy City . |
| 23 | But that we get a balance right between the amount of regulations an and the cost of it but that it is in a sense , effective and and the plea I would make to my honourable friend when he considers this P I A prospectus and what should be done and wh to what extent the government feels it should support it , is that what we actually want is not a specific requirement that says you 've got to have this much , that much capital erm and so on , but that there is a function , there is a regular audit trail , there is a a regular , annual look at the figures , the accounts of all these intermediaries , er and firms where the difficulty has been er in the past . |
| 24 | I 've the experience of being in a political party that says one man , one vote , release Mandela , and all these things that we were nearly shot for . |
| 25 | The Governor admits the fire was a serious incident but says that sort of protest is n't confined to Bullingdon and is n't unique . |
| 26 | She 's finding the recession a real struggle and says the banks are making things even worse . |
| 27 | He prides himself on a forthright nature and says he has asked more questions than any other MP in the House . |
| 28 | ‘ Whenever I see Clare , she always gives me a big kiss on the cheek and gives my back a little rub and says , ‘ How are you ? ’ |
| 29 | Why does the Peters Atlas of the World have a major heading that says : ‘ Nature , Man and Society ’ ? |
| 30 | So they call out the local Jesuit priest , he takes a good sniff and says it 's haunted . |