Example sentences of "they say [pron] [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say they have been innocent victims in a crime for which the law says they must also be punished . |
| 2 | They say she 'd been depressed in recent days |
| 3 | They say she 's been able to transplant a gorilla 's brain into a human body , or maybe a human brain into a gorilla 's body . ’ |
| 4 | Villagers are demanding the removal of their local bobby because they say he 's been over-zealous in handing out parking tickets . |
| 5 | ‘ Now they say there has been secret dumping of waste from the submarines and nuclear icebreakers . |