Example sentences of "[been] saying " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why , has someone been saying you 're not ? ’ |
| 2 | Sachin Tendulkar came in to a reception whose volume and pitch tended to confirm what Bishen Bedi had been saying about his sex appeal , and there was the arresting sight of a 41-year-old bowler taking on two batsmen whose combined age was 42 . |
| 3 | Mr Nathan lamented the fact that for 40 years Israel had been saying it had no one to talk to and now that the other side was prepared to talk , Israel refused . |
| 4 | Mr Clarke said last night : ‘ What I said after the meeting was exactly what I said at the meeting and exactly the same as I have been saying since the White Paper was published . |
| 5 | ‘ Make me an offer , ’ he might have been saying . |
| 6 | I said all this to Alison , and I 've been saying it to her ever since , and , back in London , I 've been saying it to anyone else who 'll listen . |
| 7 | I said all this to Alison , and I 've been saying it to her ever since , and , back in London , I 've been saying it to anyone else who 'll listen . |
| 8 | All their eyes were turned on Rose but she , with just a glance at Moran , took up the Second Mystery as if she had been saying it with them all the nights of their lives . |
| 9 | Leonard has again been saying this week that this is likely to be his final contest . |
| 10 | ‘ I would like to beat him because of what he has been saying about me , ’ Mason said . |
| 11 | ‘ I would like to beat him because of what he has been saying about me , ’ Mason said . |
| 12 | Latin American diplomats have been saying privately in Washington that they are appalled at the jingoistic reaction of Americans . |
| 13 | Mr Petrakov is one of the band of influential economists who have made the mental leap to the market ( ‘ We need a normal , civilised market , ’ he says ) , and have been saying with growing urgency that Mr Gorbachev must join them , and bring the country with him . |
| 14 | But they have been saying that for 20 years . |
| 15 | And this week the IMF made public what everyone has been saying in private : that there can be little foreign help on offer until the Soviet Union reforms its ‘ rotten ’ economy . |
| 16 | It reminded Jane of one of the Professor Branestawm stories she had read as a child in which the characters were photographs come alive , each repeating , over and over again , the sentence he or she had been saying at the moment the photograph was taken . |
| 17 | People had been saying that once the war was over , things would change . |
| 18 | ' Whatever could Aunt Louise have been saying ? |
| 19 | ( Her aunts had been saying much the same kind of thing to her all her life , I believe . ) |
| 20 | They only hear half of what God has been saying . |
| 21 | For some time ‘ provocatively perverse ’ critics have been saying something similar about TV ( ie , that ads are better than programmes ) . |
| 22 | What had he really been saying as they sat among the trees ? |
| 23 | What has she been saying ? |
| 24 | As the minority population became more vociferous in its demands and more openly nationalist and republican , the stature of Paisley in the loyalist camp was proportionately increased because Protestants looked back at what he had been saying in the early days of O'Neill 's reign and saw that ‘ he had been right all along ’ . |
| 25 | Pessimists had been saying that the war could last between four and seven years , and that Britain , which had never lost a war , would not lose this one either . |
| 26 | Others had been saying that nobody wore the Party badge any longer in Munich and that ‘ for a long while not a single person had believed anything the Führer had said ’ . |
| 27 | I would never try on something revealing like a swimming costume in a communal changing room , because when I was bigger I 'd be thinking everyone would be looking at the bulgy bits thinking how fat I was ( well , this is what I thought after I found out what my friends had been saying ) , and now I would feel too self-conscious because other girls would be thinking how skinny I look . |
| 28 | Many had n't understood a word she 'd been saying . |
| 29 | The whisper is that Faldo has not been saying too much about how well he is playing for fear of tempting fate . |
| 30 | The whisper is that Faldo has not been saying too much about how well he is playing for fear of tempting fate . |