Example sentences of "say [pron] had [adv] been [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had always said she had never been a shop-girl and she was n't going to start now . |
| 2 | He suggested the striker was lacking in desire , suggesting he had gone missing during the game against United , and saying he had not been the same since playing for England against Turkey a fortnight ago . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Mother Catherine , the mother superior , a spritely 85-year-old American , said there had never been a case of food poisoning associated with eggs from the monastery , which had kept flocks for 20 years . |
| 5 | The Mother Superior , Mother Catherine , 82 , said there had never been a case of food poisoning associated with eggs from the monastery . |
| 6 | But Derek Law , deputy director of the SSD , said there had only been a few teething problems . |
| 7 | Mr Tutton blamed it on a type of narrow laser beam used in early operations and said it had not been a problem for the British patients . |
| 8 | He said he had briefly been a Labour Party member in 1974 . |