Example sentences of "he [vb -s] be saying " 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 The normal expectation in the construction and interpretation of discourse is , as Grice suggests , that relevance holds , that the speaker is still speaking of the same place and time , participants and topic , unless he marks a change and shows explicitly whether the changed context is , or is not , relevant to what he has been saying previously .
4 ‘ 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 .
5 Have you heard what he 's been saying ? ’
6 ‘ I do n't like what he 's been saying . ’
7 Up until nineteen twenty seven he 's been saying work with the Kuomintang , work with the bourgeois nationalists , work with the parties to your right .
8 And he 's been saying some very wild things to George .
9 ‘ That 's what he 's been saying all the time , ’ said Len .
10 ‘ Got any bright ideas about how to stop Vitor from saying the kind of things he 's been saying ? ’
11 He 's been saying that over a year .
12 I think he 's a right lying git , I could n't , he 's been a right lying git , he 's been saying all the things that he 's supposed to say instead of the truth
13 Chairman , I 've listened with erm interest to Professor erm weasel words explaining that he did n't mean what he 's been saying for the past three years and trying to explain away what he 's effectively and he might as well admit it a complete volte face worse than that his agreement to an arrangement which he knows is second best .
14 But it simply underlines how ineffective we 've been in , in counteracting what , what he 's been saying when we , when we think it 's absolute rubbish .
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