Example sentences of "what [pron] have [be] saying " in BNC.
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| 31 | Although this was the exact opposite of what they had been saying in the previous year , it was consistent in suggesting that there was a conflict between leaders and members . |
| 32 | ‘ I know exactly what they have been saying on TV . |
| 33 | 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 ’ . |
| 34 | 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 ’ . |
| 35 | In her disappointment Chesarynth missed what he had been saying . |
| 36 | And I understood at once the implications of what he 'd been saying . |
| 37 | She believed in most of what he 'd been saying ; she had no idea of how much he believed himself |
| 38 | Have you heard what he 's been saying ? ’ |
| 39 | ‘ I do n't like what he 's been saying . ’ |
| 40 | ‘ That 's what he 's been saying all the time , ’ said Len . |
| 41 | Chairman , I 've listened with erm interest to Professor erm weasel words explaining that he did n't mean what he 's been saying for the past three years and trying to explain away what he 's effectively and he might as well admit it a complete volte face worse than that his agreement to an arrangement which he knows is second best . |
| 42 | But it simply underlines how ineffective we 've been in , in counteracting what , what he 's been saying when we , when we think it 's absolute rubbish . |
| 43 | ‘ I would like to beat him because of what he has been saying about me , ’ Mason said . |
| 44 | ‘ I would like to beat him because of what he has been saying about me , ’ Mason said . |
| 45 | 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 . |