Example sentences of "have be saying " in BNC.

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1 she 's it could 've been saying
2 ‘ I would like to beat him because of what he has been saying about me , ’ Mason said .
3 ‘ I would like to beat him because of what he has been saying about me , ’ Mason said .
4 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 .
5 They only hear half of what God has been saying .
6 You see , I refrain from outlining just what this gentleman has been saying to me — about you all .
7 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 .
8 In their publicity for ‘ 20th Century Plus ’ , Collins Classics has been saying that each disc in the series ‘ contains around 30 minutes of music ’ .
9 ‘ I think I 'll have to have a few words with whoever has been saying this .
10 ‘ Even the gaffer has been saying that we have a half-decent team .
11 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 .
12 But last night a source close to Jagger said : ‘ All that stuff she has been saying about hardly knowing him is rubbish .
13 Microsoft wants Sun to pay a licence for WABI , specifically $50 a copy , and has been saying so to Sun since at least December .
14 Microsoft wants Sun to pay a licence for WABI , specifically $50 a copy , and has been saying so to Sun since at least December .
15 Erm what this is really about , I think we all recognise this is the erm purchaser aim to increase their leverage in the contract situation as against the providers on the other side of contract and in fact , I think we ought to tie this very much more in with what this authority has been saying about the proposals of the trust on the provider side because I think that this is an argument against the whole district N H S trusts that we 're getting , but it is encouraging the situation in which health authorities have purchasers on the other side of the contract are going to want to band together and merge to create a larger block in which to negotiate with their whole trust providers , I think this is a a very dangerous situation and think we needed to tie the two together as an argument there .
16 The normal expectation in the construction and interpretation of discourse is , as Grice suggests , that relevance holds , that the speaker is still speaking of the same place and time , participants and topic , unless he marks a change and shows explicitly whether the changed context is , or is not , relevant to what he has been saying previously .
17 Fairfax then summarizes thoughtfully what the laibon has been saying .
18 ‘ As well I know , ’ he said , ‘ or I might be tempted to thrash that cur beside you until he is senseless for what I hear that he has been saying about London of me and mine .
19 To Western anti-apartheid campaigners the apple has been saying , ‘ Damn the racist apartheid system , boycott South African fruit , ’ for at least a decade .
20 Labour 's deputy leader has been saying to the councils , ’ You may not get as much as you want , but you will certainly get more . ’
21 What 's different about it is that we possess , the G M B London Region , possess sworn statements from managers and ex Chief Officers that conclusively demonstrate that what the trade union has been saying all along , what the G M B's been saying all along , about victimization , financial mismanagement and corruption , have in ta in fact taken place .
22 Labour has been saying something it knows to be untrue .
23 Can I also say really I agree with Martin when he said erm , and has been saying for at least six months that surely we have more important things to , to talk about than , than this and I 'm sorry for Martin that he had to erm , give in really and put this I was the movement of the amendment in January ninety two erm , which confirmed that the rights of tenants and old occupiers of land in county council ownership to er allow or stop fox hunting over land in their care .
24 A hospital has been saying farewell to one of its last links with it 's wartime origins .
25 Harry Connick Jr has been saying that since the tender age of eight when he stole the show in his native New Orleans , and he just gets better and better .
26 ‘ His department has been saying to us in recent weeks that we could not have the classrooms and toilets we need because there are empty places in other schools .
27 but you see Joyce has been saying to us
28 So do bear those things in mind , because part of today and yesterday has been saying to you , how you can present yourselves to radio and T V in such a way that you 're not only experts in your specific subjects , but you are sufficiently expert in the techniques that go to make up good radio , that people will say , ‘ Let's have so-and-so back again .
29 In a decision this afternoon , Oxford City Council 's Parks Officer , Bob Stag , has been saying how industrial waste , and even Council rubbish , has made the site too dangerous for the fire .
30 Many had n't understood a word she 'd been saying .
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