Example sentences of "say [pron] had [adv] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also contradicted Mrs Mandela 's alibi by saying she had not been in the Orange Free State on the day Stompie and three other youths were assaulted at her Soweto house . |
| 2 | You said you had n't been to a gym in ages . |
| 3 | I asked Miss Lofthouse if she 'd seen you and she said you had n't been in this afternoon . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He said he had n't been in trouble before . |
| 6 | He also said he had never been to St Kitts . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |