Example sentences of "say that [noun] had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When we were waiting to be questioned by the police , Doug Wilson was saying that Rodney had been making a play for Angy and hinting that he might have got somewhere . ’ |
| 2 | He said that Dodman had been suffering from a mental illness which could have affected his behaviour . |
| 3 | He said that Dodman had been suffering from a mental illness which could have affected his behaviour and asked that Dodman be sent for psychiatric help . |
| 4 | Another man said that Portadown had been expecting something like this after the recent attacks in Lurgan . |
| 5 | Western reports said that troops had been massing in the region since December 1990 . |
| 6 | Lita Dowell , prosecuting , said that Thomas had been having an affair with Mrs Dean for four months before the attack in August . |
| 7 | The sensible thing would have been to say that Crabb had been diving in the area to test out equipment and had got into difficulties , surfaced near the Russian ships and then drowned . |