Example sentences of "[been] saying " in BNC.
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| 31 | Nigel Mansell had for years been saying : ‘ Just go out and win ! ’ , and finally he was on the point of doing precisely that . |
| 32 | And then , immediately , I said to myself , well , you 've been saying to these men [ his captors ] ‘ When you 're in a tight corner , renounce violence ’ . |
| 33 | ‘ Gilly , you 've been saying ever since you were old enough to talk … . ’ |
| 34 | When Luxembourg finally admitted what many had been saying for years , that it wants a federal EC , British federalists tried to pretend that the Luxembourgers do not mean federal when they say ‘ federal ’ . |
| 35 | All I can try to do is to outline what theists have been saying when they talk of God , and to try to offset some popular misconceptions of what they mean . |
| 36 | At last the government recognised what many researchers had been saying for years : that corporal punishment did not address the causes of bad behaviour , caused resentment among older pupils in particular , and was ‘ inimical to the quality of relationships between teachers and pupils upon which good behaviour is based ’ . |
| 37 | You see , I refrain from outlining just what this gentleman has been saying to me — about you all . |
| 38 | Have you heard what he 's been saying ? ’ |
| 39 | In his paper , Beveridge repeated what he had been saying for some time , namely , that there was no general breakdown of the labour-market , instead there was an overstocking of individual trades which was due to ‘ inadequate labour information and local hindrances to labour mobility ’ . |
| 40 | I knew my sons had been saying that of course Mum would cry — it was a dead cert ! |
| 41 | Some couples who have failed to hear what the other has been saying over a number of years may need the help of a third person , probably a trained counsellor , to get them talking again . |
| 42 | In their publicity for ‘ 20th Century Plus ’ , Collins Classics has been saying that each disc in the series ‘ contains around 30 minutes of music ’ . |
| 43 | While Rauschning emphasised reconciliation , understanding and harmony through balanced trade , Forster had been saying that reconciliation with the Poles was impossible and endlessly repeating that a return to the Reich was essential , but was prevented only by the intransigence of the vengeful Poles . |
| 44 | ‘ Yes , I did , ’ said Kelly , surprised that he had n't grasped what she 'd been saying . |
| 45 | Jack 's heart lurched as he saw the ambulances and the busy , functional building and he immediately forgot everything they had been saying . |
| 46 | Mind you , they 've been saying that for years , and the C64 is still the second biggest leisure-software market in Europe ( and the biggest market for budget software ! ) . |
| 47 | Yet mystics have been saying for thousands of years that we are all aspects of a greater whole — that our separateness is an illusion , that we are ultimately One . |
| 48 | ‘ Then perhaps you should take what I have just been saying even more seriously . |
| 49 | Millions of parents have been saying this for months . |
| 50 | ‘ I think I 'll have to have a few words with whoever has been saying this . |
| 51 | ‘ I do n't like what he 's been saying . ’ |
| 52 | ‘ Even the gaffer has been saying that we have a half-decent team . |
| 53 | Hopefully we can go all the way to Wembley , but we 've all been saying in the dressing room that there are some big league games coming up and we have to concentrate on them . ’ |
| 54 | Dudley Wood , secretary of the Rugby Union , has confirmed what officials , who run the registration rules , have been saying : ‘ It may be necessary to lengthen the period of qualification following a change of clubs to 12 months with dispensations . ’ |
| 55 | I hope that , whatever the outcome , Peter and his colleagues will have ceased to regard the IoT as an ‘ enemy ’ , and recognise the merit in what we have been saying and abandon the separate examination proposal . |
| 56 | Might not the Buddha have been saying that the self is none of these constituents , nor all of them in combination , but something other , something that owns , uses and directs these faculties ? |
| 57 | But by now Winnie Ewing was in the throes of her by-election campaign to win Hamilton for the SNP , and aware of how fervently I agreed with everything she was saying ( and wished a Liberal had been saying ) I felt it would be dishonest to hold back any longer . |
| 58 | ‘ It only proves what I have been saying for some time that this was nothing more than an arranged marriage . |
| 59 | The vote in the General Synod , 384 to 169 , was a surprise to both sides , who had been saying the result would be too close to predict . |
| 60 | Fergie has been saying that he was so concerned about my life-style away from football he called in Sir Matt Busby , the club doctor and even a parish priest to try to get me sorted out . |