Example sentences of "said that [pron] have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In our main survey , only seven per cent told us that they had had classes about household budgeting or managing money while they were at school — and rather less than half of even this small minority said that they had been taught anything about buying on credit , or borrowing money . |
| 2 | Several people said that they had been asked to lecture to a wide range of students and colleagues on the subject of their particular disability , or disability in general . |
| 3 | Responding to the charge that the restrictions attached to oil sales violated Iraqi sovereignty , the United States permanent representative at the UN , Thomas Pickering , said that they had been included to " prevent [ food and medicines being diverted ] to the Iraqi privileged classes as has happened in the past " . |
| 4 | Both during training and after qualifying some people said that they had been encouraged by senior colleagues to work with disabled people or in areas of medicine of low prestige . |
| 5 | A further eight people said that they had been helped to gain access to training by an influential person . |
| 6 | They said that they had been talking about it themselves . |
| 7 | Most people refused to believe them and said that they had been faked in Hollywood . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Sources said that they have been given six weeks to finish their assignments and another four weeks ' severance pay . |
| 11 | Paul Lee , Orkney 's Social Work Director , consistently said that what had been done was in the best interests of the children . |
| 12 | Epictetus said that we have been placed in a festival and we must enjoy it and be full of delight in it . |
| 13 | Faber publicity director Joanna Mackle said that she had been overwhelmed by the response . |
| 14 | Anne thought Helen was right and Maureen said that she had been told when in hospital that patients often had remission in the disease their mother suffered . |
| 15 | They said that he had been ambushed while unarmed and slain by a thrust in the back . |
| 16 | When McCormack was traced by police , he said that he had been drinking and ‘ carrying on ’ with the shopping trolleys . |
| 17 | ELBC radio ( Monrovia ) said that he had been seen at Man in Côte d'Ivoire , landing aboard a Cessna light aircraft with relatives , en route for Burkina . |
| 18 | He said that he had been given no information about the departure and even late yesterday , had been unable to reach government officials responsible for refugee matters . |
| 19 | Edward Ellice , an MP for Coventry , said that he had been asked to accompany his friend Lord Elcho , and although he seems to have been a political ally of Elcho 's his view of Scott 's design was very different . |
| 20 | On Jan. 14 Richard Goldstone , chair of an independent judicial commission of inquiry established in September 1991 under the terms of the national peace accord [ see p. 38422 ] , said that he had been asked by both the government and the ANC to investigate allegations of SADF complicity in killings in black townships . |
| 21 | Dr Nakajima , accompanied on his tour by Dr Jo Asvall , head of WHO 's European regional office in Copenhagen , said that he had been asked several times if Yugoslav funds frozen in the US and other countries could not be used for purchase of medical supplies . |
| 22 | The hon. Member for Tottenham ( Mr. Grant ) said that he had been misquoted . |
| 23 | A report from a Tajikta correspondent on March 8 said that he had been stripped of his deputy 's immunity by a two-thirds vote in the Supreme Soviet and arrested in the parliament building . |
| 24 | Early reports said that he had been replaced by Col. Elias Tutsoane Ramaema , another Military Council member . |
| 25 | At a press conference on April 22 after talks with the Amir , the US Secretary of State , James Baker , said that he had been assured that human rights abuses had ceased and that the government " would be pleased to invite human rights organizations to interview minorities — Palestinians and others " . |
| 26 | At the end of his visit Hogg said that he had been assured by Lebanese leaders that all three British hostages in Lebanon were alive . |
| 27 | He said that he had been charged with 10 counts of breaking police regulations by talking to reporters about police brutality . |
| 28 | Kenneth Orbinson , an Ulster Television cameraman , gave evidence at the trial of those arrested on 5 October : he said that he had been sprayed while filming from the window of a flat in Duke Street ; but his film was not admitted as evidence . |
| 29 | Prime Minister Guy Razanamasy on July 30 said that he had been made aware of the imminent attempt the day before it took place and that a " foreign power " was responsible . |
| 30 | Bitov said that he had been interrogated by Lieutenant-Colonel James Westoll at Flat 4 , 34 Redcliffe Square , Earls Court , London , and 118 Sheen Court , Richmond . |