Example sentences of "say [pron] [vb past] [be] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | She said I 'd been given all I 'd get and I said it was n't enough . ’ |
2 | Tracey Hall of Style Academy said she had been seeing more males looking for jobs . |
3 | She said she had been released half a mile away on a misty common and had not eaten for a long time . |
4 | Some tenants to whom this happens every few months said they 'd been told that next time they 'd have to sort it out themselves . |
5 | When people thought that the difficulty had been the credit firm 's fault , about half said that the company had made some mistake — such as claiming that arrears were owed , when in fact payments were up to date ; about half said they had been refused some type of credit which they had applied for . |
6 | ‘ One guy we spoke to said he had been walking this route everyday for the last ten years . |
7 | ‘ One guy we spoke to said he had been walking this route every day for the last ten years . |