Example sentences of "have been saying [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would like to beat him because of what he has been saying about me , ’ Mason said . |
| 2 | ‘ I would like to beat him because of what he has been saying about me , ’ Mason said . |
| 3 | But last night a source close to Jagger said : ‘ All that stuff she has been saying about hardly knowing him is rubbish . |
| 4 | Erm what this is really about , I think we all recognise this is the erm purchaser aim to increase their leverage in the contract situation as against the providers on the other side of contract and in fact , I think we ought to tie this very much more in with what this authority has been saying about the proposals of the trust on the provider side because I think that this is an argument against the whole district N H S trusts that we 're getting , but it is encouraging the situation in which health authorities have purchasers on the other side of the contract are going to want to band together and merge to create a larger block in which to negotiate with their whole trust providers , I think this is a a very dangerous situation and think we needed to tie the two together as an argument there . |
| 5 | ‘ As well I know , ’ he said , ‘ or I might be tempted to thrash that cur beside you until he is senseless for what I hear that he has been saying about London of me and mine . |
| 6 | You see , I refrain from outlining just what this gentleman has been saying to me — about you all . |
| 7 | Labour 's deputy leader has been saying to the councils , ’ You may not get as much as you want , but you will certainly get more . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ His department has been saying to us in recent weeks that we could not have the classrooms and toilets we need because there are empty places in other schools . |
| 9 | but you see Joyce has been saying to us |
| 10 | So do bear those things in mind , because part of today and yesterday has been saying to you , how you can present yourselves to radio and T V in such a way that you 're not only experts in your specific subjects , but you are sufficiently expert in the techniques that go to make up good radio , that people will say , ‘ Let's have so-and-so back again . |
| 11 | Can I also say really I agree with Martin when he said erm , and has been saying for at least six months that surely we have more important things to , to talk about than , than this and I 'm sorry for Martin that he had to erm , give in really and put this I was the movement of the amendment in January ninety two erm , which confirmed that the rights of tenants and old occupiers of land in county council ownership to er allow or stop fox hunting over land in their care . |
| 12 | And this week the IMF made public what everyone has been saying in private : that there can be little foreign help on offer until the Soviet Union reforms its ‘ rotten ’ economy . |
| 13 | ‘ No , you came here wanting to know what I 'd been saying to Mr Kronweiser today . ’ |
| 14 | Maybe we , it may well be that you were with other people , I wonder what sort of things if you were in a condition of speaking , what sort of things you would have been saying to them . |
| 15 | We were walk walking to erm the , down the high street and a plane went over , and erm , I think mum must have been saying to her about Aunty Jill being on holiday , and she went , ah , there 's Aunty Jill in the plane going to the city . |
| 16 | Sachin Tendulkar came in to a reception whose volume and pitch tended to confirm what Bishen Bedi had been saying about his sex appeal , and there was the arresting sight of a 41-year-old bowler taking on two batsmen whose combined age was 42 . |
| 17 | He thought about what Suragai had been saying about the origins of mankind . |
| 18 | Jim McCarron , the committee chairman , said yesterday that Dr Forwell 's report underlined what politicians had been saying about Glasgow 's health record for a long time . |
| 19 | The success of " East Coker " emphasized what the critics had been saying since the publication of the Collected Poems four years before : Eliot was the most substantial , if no longer the most startling , poet writing in English . |
| 20 | It reminded Jane of one of the Professor Branestawm stories she had read as a child in which the characters were photographs come alive , each repeating , over and over again , the sentence he or she had been saying at the moment the photograph was taken . |
| 21 | When Luxembourg finally admitted what many had been saying for years , that it wants a federal EC , British federalists tried to pretend that the Luxembourgers do not mean federal when they say ‘ federal ’ . |
| 22 | At last the government recognised what many researchers had been saying for years : that corporal punishment did not address the causes of bad behaviour , caused resentment among older pupils in particular , and was ‘ inimical to the quality of relationships between teachers and pupils upon which good behaviour is based ’ . |
| 23 | In his paper , Beveridge repeated what he had been saying for some time , namely , that there was no general breakdown of the labour-market , instead there was an overstocking of individual trades which was due to ‘ inadequate labour information and local hindrances to labour mobility ’ . |
| 24 | CHC had been saying for a long time , and it seemed to be falling on deaf ears that a date should be set for the closure of Friern and that money should not be spent on the hospital but on services in the community . |
| 25 | He hesitated ; best not to tell Jared of what Havvie Blaine had been saying of her ; he was fearful that if his brother knew he would do Havvie a mortal injury — Best perhaps to warn Mary Tunstall privately . |
| 26 | Milly said cos we 'd been talking about this all day and they , the children had been saying to John you gon na have a picture of yourself in Where 's the Wally thing ? |
| 27 | As the minority population became more vociferous in its demands and more openly nationalist and republican , the stature of Paisley in the loyalist camp was proportionately increased because Protestants looked back at what he had been saying in the early days of O'Neill 's reign and saw that ‘ he had been right all along ’ . |
| 28 | Although this was the exact opposite of what they had been saying in the previous year , it was consistent in suggesting that there was a conflict between leaders and members . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It shows what we 've been saying for a long time , how fragile the markets in this recycling are , and I still stick to what I 've thought all along , that marketing comes first and making the product comes second . |