Example sentences of "[pron] say [pron] had [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said I had n't been playing . |
| 2 | Most local hoteliers and guesthouse owners , who said they had not been told of this , left before the vote was taken . |
| 3 | She said she had n't been for a while and erm then she said they did n't really know , they wondered how she was gon na get on in the water . |
| 4 | She said she had always been interested in science , but had been put off because everyone told her it was n't for girls , only boys . |
| 5 | I asked Miss Lofthouse if she 'd seen you and she said you had n't been in this afternoon . ’ |
| 6 | She said I had not been meant to have this until I was twenty-five , but since I was married and had a child , they had been able to break the trust . |
| 7 | You said you had n't been painting . |
| 8 | You said you had n't been to a gym in ages . |
| 9 | They said they had not been properly consulted about the venue and formed a rival organisation , the Professional Chess Association , to manage the championship . |
| 10 | If they said they had not been upset on being told the diagnosis , this actually was the case ; they were not suffering from amnesia . |
| 11 | Two days ago they said she had not been assaulted . |
| 12 | He said he had n't been in trouble before . |
| 13 | He said he had not been told it would be an offence and had not received any advice or information on the disease . |
| 14 | He said he had not been told it would be an offence and had not received any advice or information on the disease . |
| 15 | He said he had briefly been a Labour Party member in 1974 . |
| 16 | He said he had also been offered interviews with ministers in the South African government , so that he could form a balanced judgement , but had declined . |
| 17 | Thrill-seeking impulses led them to many momentary and immediate adventures , and it was this period of his life he referred to when he said he had never been in an orgy of more than three people , although he tried ineffectively to promote it a time or two . |
| 18 | Manchester City ! ’ he said , continuing the chant which was so like those I had heard at Manchester 's Maine Road ground that I marvelled when he said he had never been to England . |
| 19 | He said there had not been , and would not be , any resignations as a result of the ‘ deeply disturbing ’ situation although finance director Ian Phillips will leave in February . |
| 20 | He said there had also been no difficulties with the inadmissibility of computer evidence because the council used other sorts of documents to prove its cases . |
| 21 | Even more so than he had done the previous time , I said did n't you hear this about this at the station meeting and he said it had n't been brought up . |
| 22 | He said it had not been spotted by one of the operatives . |