Example sentences of "say [that] [pron] had [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enterprise 's managing director Ted Tuppen defended the supply deal , saying that it had not been a condition of the sale that Enterprise take its beers from Bass . |
| 2 | Downing Street sought to explain the decision by saying that it had not been on his diary anyway . |
| 3 | The order , issued at the end of talks between IAEA and Iraqi officials in Vienna on March 20-25 , was described as " unfair " by the chief Iraqi negotiator , Khalid Ibrahim Sa'id , who had reportedly argued against Al-Atheer 's destruction , saying that it had originally been conceived as a civilian facility and should be allowed to continue operating as such . |
| 4 | Doreen , loyal to her role of concubine , had tried to cheer him up by saying that it had never been so good . |
| 5 | Chipenda had earlier resigned as election organizer for the MPLA [ see p. 38949 for his election to MPLA central committee and political bureau ] , saying that he had not been given sufficient funds for the campaign and citing a " lack of the necessary trust and openness " in the party . |
| 6 | Mr Braithwaite wrote to Douglas saying that he had n't been contacted since February . |
| 7 | The Mukhabarat demanded he sign an affidavit accusing his brother of all sorts of other crimes and saying that he had always been a traitor at heart . |
| 8 | A leading member of the music panel said that they had not been informed in advance that the future of Kent Opera would be discussed in November . |
| 9 | The man talked a lot about karma and said that they had obviously been together in a previous incarnation , but now their birthdates were not synchronized . |
| 10 | Well last time we saw her , she said that she had n't been I think she went in her bedroom now , or in the toilet . . |
| 11 | Prunskiene said that she had merely been forced to give the KGB an account of her foreign visits . |
| 12 | His desire to devastate our residential sector and close seventeen homes will be thwarted somebody over there , it may have been Mr it may not have been , said that there had n't been any redundancies . |
| 13 | The trades union confederations demanded a forum for dialogue on the issue with the government , whereas the government said that there had already been consultations and that it could not " be expected to cease adopting decisions on crucial and pressing problems because of artificially created procedural obstacles " . |
| 14 | He said that there had recently been 102,000 complaints against British Gas . |
| 15 | He said that he had not been informed of the dissolution of the National Assembly on Jan. 4 . |
| 16 | The witness said that he had not been present at the meeting and had agreed that what was said then would not be recorded . |
| 17 | He said that he had n't been treated ‘ badly ’ , but had , like Jenco and Jacobsen , been chained by one or both ankles for most of the time . |
| 18 | Bonn officials last night played down the extent of the last-minute rethink of their tactics at Strasbourg and one said that it had all been a ‘ silly misunderstanding ’ . |