Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been saying " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , you came here wanting to know what I 'd been saying to Mr Kronweiser today . ’ |
| 2 | I said all this to Alison , and I 've been saying it to her ever since , and , back in London , I 've been saying it to anyone else who 'll listen . |
| 3 | I said all this to Alison , and I 've been saying it to her ever since , and , back in London , I 've been saying it to anyone else who 'll listen . |
| 4 | I 'm not offending you by what I 've been saying ? ’ |
| 5 | Have the the teachers telling you a way of learning something like I 've been saying put C K if it 's on the end of the word . |
| 6 | Now do you see what I 've been saying all along ? ’ |
| 7 | And I 'm effectively shut up because I 've been kicked out of my job and a ] so because you do n't seem to have heard a word I 've been saying . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been saying the exact same thing with regard to this Mr Wrong she 's so darned keen on . ’ |
| 9 | There can only be one outcome , the trade unions will retain their involvement in the Labour Party , I 've been saying this all along , as have others , during the course of the last year , the trouble is , nobody listens . |
| 10 | Well of course I 've been saying for some time now , for some time , and I want to underline that , and I hope the government are listening that we 've had twenty thousand troops on our streets , we 've twelve thousand armed policemen on our streets , we have the strictest security laws in Western Europe , and none of these things have solved our problem . |
| 11 | Well some people have been talking about five to seven years , I 've been saying all the way through that we 're very flexible on this , and clearly if erm a bidder whether it 's a management buy out with other people in the bid , others in the consortium , or an outright bid from a private sector consortium er if if they get the franchise and make clear that that 's on the basis that they 're going to put a lot of money into the capital investment , then clearly they will want a longer period and we have made that clear . |
| 12 | Erm , the Chief Fire Officer will enlarge on what I 've been saying . |
| 13 | Rory , have you heard a single word I 've been saying for the past five mintues ? ’ |
| 14 | Erm you may , you may start to believe from what I 've been saying that federalism is a kind of sham , you know that it 's a that really states have lost significance viz a viz the federal government , federal government is now more or less a , a unitary state and runs everything , well that 's not true at all . |
| 15 | I 've been saying to her well you 'll have to wait she 's been saying her feet hurt , right ? |
| 16 | I did n't tell your mum that I 'd got it on you see she said now all that I 've been saying ! |
| 17 | Well that 's what I 've been saying to dad as well , I said the times I said we 've had cheques come back ! |
| 18 | No , I 've been saying they booked me about two months ago and I 've been saying that they have a deposit |
| 19 | No , I 've been saying they booked me about two months ago and I 've been saying that they have a deposit |
| 20 | Oh I 'm gon na start going , I have n't been swimming for that long and I 've been saying off and on oh I must go , I must go , but when it 's so cold outside you do n't feel like coming out with all wet hair and all that |
| 21 | Oh he 's in hospital , I did n't know a thing about it , I 've been saying when we 've been to the Pentam , we have n't seen Trevor for a while , we have n't seen Trevor , and even Barry at the Pentam did n't tell me , he thought I knew |
| 22 | Must get one a microwave if Debbie comes home I think , I 'll see , I 've been saying that but I was thinking if , I 'll have to wait and see Debbie |
| 23 | Mr Clarke said last night : ‘ What I said after the meeting was exactly what I said at the meeting and exactly the same as I have been saying since the White Paper was published . |
| 24 | ‘ It only proves what I have been saying for some time that this was nothing more than an arranged marriage . |
| 25 | To accept what I have been saying about epistemic appearances is to accept that our visual experience does somehow involve a judgement about what we are looking at , whether in our experience of works of art or in ordinary visual experience . |
| 26 | This is exactly what I have been saying for years . ’ |
| 27 | For miles I have been saying |
| 28 | Everything I have been saying so far , however , has been based on calculations using Einstein 's general theory of relativity . |
| 29 | In effect , I have been saying that students ' academic freedoms are necessary conditions in the realization of the emancipatory promise of higher education . |
| 30 | My normal reaction would have been to attack back but I was too tired , so I said : " If I understood from what I have been saying what you obviously understand — then I would agree with you . " |