Example sentences of "said [conj] [pron] had [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They said that they had been talking about it themselves . |
| 2 | Bastian , the independent scholar/dealer , who organised the show together with another independent curator , Werner Spies , says that he is most pleased with the reaction of an old couple from Dresden , who on the first day said that they had been longing to see Picasso 's work for forty years . |
| 3 | Most of the ‘ masters ’ of torture said that they had been fighting a desperate unseen war , whose atmosphere could not be imagined by people from democracies . |
| 4 | When McCormack was traced by police , he said that he had been drinking and ‘ carrying on ’ with the shopping trolleys . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't know what he meant , ’ Allen said after they had been walking for some time on the soft turf at the verge of the track . |