Example sentences of "say [pers pn] made [art] " in BNC.
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1 | CBS or the BBC might say we made a mistake , but CNN never say we made a mistake , they just keep cranking it out . |
2 | They say it made a few other people happy as well … |
3 | They say he made a speech at Dull . ’ |
4 | Gloucester City Football Club have done an about turn too … they 've got Brian Godfrey the man they sacked as manager three months ago back in charge … the chairman says he made a mistake … three cheers for him … |
5 | A report says he made a series of errors , but goes on to praise him for rescuing his pilot and passengers when the helicopter threatened to catch fire . |
6 | Despite a slump in the company 's margins , Bear Stearns & Co. raised its investment rating of Apple Computer Inc to ‘ strong buy ’ from ‘ buy ’ following the company 's fiscal second-quarter earnings report — figures , page five : analyst Andy Neff says he made the change because concern about Apple 's results was overdone ; commenting on the figures , Apple says it expects to resume growth — in earnings , revenue , unit sales , and market share — in the second half of its fiscal year , saying that the fall in profit was down to pricing pressures , the costs of new product launches , and a constraint in supplies needed for manufacturing , the latter two drains being short-term ; he noted that despite supply constraints , second quarter unit growth was up over 70% in its Powerbook notebook computers , while total Macintosh unit growth was up over 385 ; the European market continues to be slow , but sales in Japan are leading the way for continued growth of the Apple Pacific business unit ; gross margin was 38.5% of net sales in the second quarter of fiscal 1993 , down from 44.0% a year ago . |
7 | MIPS says it made a strong effort at the beginning to get the SCO on very favourable terms but the sponsorship just was n't there . |
8 | Organisers Editions Larivière says it made the decision not to proceed ‘ for its own reasons ’ . |
9 | The Health Authority says it made the only logical decision . |
10 | ‘ You 're actually saying you made a mistake in keeping women out of your life ? ’ |
11 | if you said I made a suggestion , what sort of word would that be ? |
12 | I asked my guide if they made the sort of paper that was used for books ; she said they made every sort of paper . |
13 | Then I 'm sorry to say he made a bacon pig . |
14 | She said it made a real change to have a bit of humour round the place . |
15 | The 5ft 9in model and actress with a 38-23-36 figure said it made a change for women to be seen as tough and strong . |
16 | But his concentration was poor these days : he could hardly keep his mind on anything for more than a moment … and even when he heard what the Padre said it made no sense … " the Editor of The Times as wise as God Himself ! " |
17 | The insolent way she said it made the other girls gasp with astonishment . |
18 | The way he said it made the name sound like orchids and honey . |
19 | He said he made a mistake : he said that he talked about armchairs being ripped up at Madge 's house , even before you 'd told him about them . |
20 | Anyway , she said he made a pass at her and she almost had to fight him off . ’ |
21 | Brown Brothers Harriman analyst William Milton has followed Dan Mandresh and downgraded his rating on IBM Corp and lowered his first quarter and full-year 1993 earnings estimates : he cut his rating to sell from neutral and lowered his first quarter forecast to a loss of $0.72 per share from a loss of $0.45 , and his full-year estimate to a loss of $1.10 from a profit of $0.35 a share ; he said he made the changes because of sharper than previously expected declines in IBM 's mainframe business and more severe than expected pricing pressures ; he also said that a noticeable deterioration in employee productivity contributed to his revised outlook — productivity has fallen given declining employee morale as IBM struggles to restructure ; ‘ There 's very little a new chief executive can do initially that 's not already being done , ’ he added . |
22 | He said he made the — the garden-master . |
23 | Mr Dixon , who is Labour 's deputy chief whip , said he made the public allegation because he was tired of Tory MPs using Commons Points of Order to accuse opposition MPs of misdemeanours . |
24 | The new controller of BBC1 , Alan Yentob , said he made the ‘ very hard ’ decision last night to halt the soap after its first 156 episodes end in July . |
25 | The new controller of BBC1 , Alan Yentob , said he made the ‘ very hard ’ decision last night to halt the soap after its first 156 episodes end in July . |
26 | CBS or the BBC might say we made a mistake , but CNN never say we made a mistake , they just keep cranking it out . |
27 | Some would say it made no pretence of catering at all , but if you were n't fussy about what you ate , if your lunch was no more than a fuelling stop to enable you to work through the afternoon , then what was on offer was tolerable . |