Example sentences of "[noun sg] saying [conj] [pron] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I must have been gradually going off into a faint when I suddenly thought of mother reading the telegram saying that I had been killed in action . |
| 2 | Well people have rung into this programme saying that they 've been put off visiting graves because this man is there . |
| 3 | And Anjelica Huston returned to her own home saying that she had been humiliated for the very last time . |
| 4 | I had , I had a letter the other day saying that I 'd been paying thirty nine pounds , fifty a week to live on , but I 've been entitled to fifty five pound something for low income support so are they gon na backdate all that and then get their |
| 5 | Ten days later he wrote to his sister saying that he had been asked to write an essay about Baldwin , but that he had refused , for he wished neither to lie nor to publish the truth , which he then proceeded to outline : |
| 6 | It is the equivalent of a British government refusing to appear for questions in the House saying that it had been elected and therefore did not need to defend its decisions before parliament . |