Example sentences of "say they [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turn your back they 're talking to you say they 've been nasty and then they come back and talk to you . |
| 2 | They say they have been innocent victims in a crime for which the law says they must also be punished . |
| 3 | Well then th they must have been she said they 'd been concerned all day . |
| 4 | Of the 532 — members of all social classes and from all over the country — 24 girls and 13 boys said they had been involved in prostitution at some time . |
| 5 | Table 4.6 takes all those who were able to give an answer at both first and second assessments ( third assessment is omitted as numbers able to give an answer on all three occasions were very small ) , and compares the action and control samples on : the number who admitted to worrying in the past month ; said they had been sad or depressed ; said they had often been lonely ; and admitted to being not very or not at all happy ( for analysis of all items in the depression scale used in the interviews see Lindesay & Murphy , 1988 ) . |
| 6 | Some parents even said they had been aware of being watched for some considerable time . |