Example sentences of "been saying to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then , immediately , I said to myself , well , you 've been saying to these men [ his captors ] ‘ When you 're in a tight corner , renounce violence ’ . |
| 2 | You see , I refrain from outlining just what this gentleman has been saying to me — about you all . |
| 3 | And what 's Lizzy been saying to him , I 'd like to know ? ’ |
| 4 | Its a , during the course of the time of the crucifixion , Jesus is on the cross and its says there , there were two others also who were criminals , were being lead away to be put to death with Jesus and they came to the place called The Skull , there they crucified him and the criminals one on the right and the other on the left , but Jesus was saying father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing , and they cast locks divided up his garments among themselves and the people stood by and looking on and even the rulers was sneering at him excuse me , and even the rulers were sneering at him saying he saved others , let him save himself if this is the Christ of god , his chosen one , and the soldiers also mocked him , coming up to him offering sour wine and saying if your the king of the Jews save yourself now there was also an inscription above him , this is the kind of the Jews , and one of the criminals who was hanged there was hurling abut at him and saying you are not the Christ , save yourself and us , but the other answered and rebuking him said do you not even fear god , since you are under the same sentence of condemnation and we indeed justly for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds , but this man has done nothing wrong and he was say , and he was saying Jesus remember me when you come in your kingdom , Jesus said to him truly I say to you today you shall be with me in paradise I wonder if you 've ever been in that awful position of facing of what you thought was certain death perhaps you were seriously ill and er , there seemed little hope of your recovery , perhaps you were facing some danger , some , some risk and it seemed almost certain that short of a miracle you were gon na die , I wonder what sort of thoughts would have been going through your mind , maybe w , may well be that you were with other people , I wonder what sort of things if you were in a condition of speaking , what sort of things you would of been saying to them . |
| 5 | ‘ No , you came here wanting to know what I 'd been saying to Mr Kronweiser today . ’ |
| 6 | What have you been saying to Jenna ? |
| 7 | Labour 's deputy leader has been saying to the councils , ’ You may not get as much as you want , but you will certainly get more . ’ |
| 8 | Also , people have been saying to me , ‘ My brother 's girlfriend 's aunt says that she spoke to someone who saw you on ‘ News at Ten ’ the other day ! ’ |
| 9 | And we 've been saying to Chief Executives , if you ca n't get the profit or you ca n't get the sales , well at least concentrate on trying to , trying to get the cash , get the debtors in , that kind of thing . |
| 10 | ‘ His department has been saying to us in recent weeks that we could not have the classrooms and toilets we need because there are empty places in other schools . |
| 11 | but you see Joyce has been saying to us |
| 12 | I 've been saying to her well you 'll have to wait she 's been saying her feet hurt , right ? |
| 13 | But er but er yeah , so but like , she 's been saying to me cos she 's been thinking about whether she is or not she er she 's been like like everywhere there 's babys and prams and everywhe , on the telly and everything , do you know what I mean ? |
| 14 | Well that 's what I 've been saying to dad as well , I said the times I said we 've had cheques come back ! |
| 15 | Milly said cos we 'd been talking about this all day and they , the children had been saying to John you gon na have a picture of yourself in Where 's the Wally thing ? |
| 16 | Maybe we , it may well be that you were with other people , I wonder what sort of things if you were in a condition of speaking , what sort of things you would have been saying to them . |
| 17 | We were walk walking to erm the , down the high street and a plane went over , and erm , I think mum must have been saying to her about Aunty Jill being on holiday , and she went , ah , there 's Aunty Jill in the plane going to the city . |
| 18 | So do bear those things in mind , because part of today and yesterday has been saying to you , how you can present yourselves to radio and T V in such a way that you 're not only experts in your specific subjects , but you are sufficiently expert in the techniques that go to make up good radio , that people will say , ‘ Let's have so-and-so back again . |