Example sentences of "'ve be say " in BNC.

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1 Today 's events only confirm what we 've been sayin' . ’
2 I said all this to Alison , and I 've been saying it to her ever since , and , back in London , I 've been saying it to anyone else who 'll listen .
3 I said all this to Alison , and I 've been saying it to her ever since , and , back in London , I 've been saying it to anyone else who 'll listen .
4 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 ’ .
5 ‘ Gilly , you 've been saying ever since you were old enough to talk … . ’
6 Mind you , they 've been saying that for years , and the C64 is still the second biggest leisure-software market in Europe ( and the biggest market for budget software ! ) .
7 I 'm not offending you by what I 've been saying ? ’
8 Have the the teachers telling you a way of learning something like I 've been saying put C K if it 's on the end of the word .
9 Now do you see what I 've been saying all along ? ’
10 And I 'm effectively shut up because I 've been kicked out of my job and a ] so because you do n't seem to have heard a word I 've been saying . ’
11 ‘ I 've been saying the exact same thing with regard to this Mr Wrong she 's so darned keen on . ’
12 When I do get round to reading it , I 'll remember what you 've been saying . ’
13 There can only be one outcome , the trade unions will retain their involvement in the Labour Party , I 've been saying this all along , as have others , during the course of the last year , the trouble is , nobody listens .
14 Well of course I 've been saying for some time now , for some time , and I want to underline that , and I hope the government are listening that we 've had twenty thousand troops on our streets , we 've twelve thousand armed policemen on our streets , we have the strictest security laws in Western Europe , and none of these things have solved our problem .
15 Well some people have been talking about five to seven years , I 've been saying all the way through that we 're very flexible on this , and clearly if erm a bidder whether it 's a management buy out with other people in the bid , others in the consortium , or an outright bid from a private sector consortium er if if they get the franchise and make clear that that 's on the basis that they 're going to put a lot of money into the capital investment , then clearly they will want a longer period and we have made that clear .
16 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 .
17 It shows what we 've been saying for a long time , how fragile the markets in this recycling are , and I still stick to what I 've thought all along , that marketing comes first and making the product comes second .
18 Okay , so we 've been saying that , I mean clearly , I mean that , that 's good evidence to suggest that world trade in absolute terms in agricultural goods is , is increasing , but as a proportion of world trade erm , it 's er , we know , we know that , we know that it , it 's falling .
19 I think you 've got quite a significant amount of money which you could offset what we 've been saying just grieves me .
20 Erm , the Chief Fire Officer will enlarge on what I 've been saying .
21 Well erm you know we 've had a lot of people come to us and say we 've qualified sales by telephone , I do n't present that a problem with that , but we have discovered people have not listened to what we 've been saying , even on the training course , when they go out there to sell the space they keep making appointments to go and see people to talk about advertising .
22 Because they 've come out with a report saying what we 've been saying for the
23 Alright , fair enough , you accepted what we 've been saying for ages that we had to go to voluntary competitive tendering right .
24 We 've been saying the same thing for the last three years and I 've got the minutes here to prove it .
25 But I mean , one of the things that we 've got on with at the moment is that we 've been saying for ages , you 've got to get your you 've got to get us involved at design stage .
26 Rory , have you heard a single word I 've been saying for the past five mintues ? ’
27 ‘ I 've no idea what you 've been saying , but the general impression here — ’
28 Erm you may , you may start to believe from what I 've been saying that federalism is a kind of sham , you know that it 's a that really states have lost significance viz a viz the federal government , federal government is now more or less a , a unitary state and runs everything , well that 's not true at all .
29 And anyway it 's in the paper in the paper this week and they 've been saying that er the outrage the residents !
30 I know , for the last year we 've been saying we 'll go to Norwich
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