Example sentences of "be say [that] [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're saying that we 've got two of our our particular sub-patterns matching . |
| 2 | you 're , you 're , you 're saying that I 've got to do ? |
| 3 | Many of us are saying that we 've had enough . |
| 4 | Well yes , yes in terms it sounds mos most confusing compared with a straightforward business world but if , if , if the campaign are saying that it 's got to be this way for legal reasons they 're not prepared to accept it . |
| 5 | Indeed , it could be said that they had prospered . |
| 6 | It could be said that they have abandoned whole areas of their responsibility to the national museums . |
| 7 | It may be said that we have to plan for the future , and I entirely agree , but most of our thoughts can be best described as nonsense . |
| 8 | I would not like it to be said that I had had my mother put away . ’ |
| 9 | I WAS really only a bystander in the tragedy of young Mr and Mrs McLeod ; it was not really my business , although it could be said that I had known them both — had seen them about — for most of their lives . |
| 10 | As the company was a separate legal entity , and in the particular circumstances ( through its directing mind and will ) had consented to the husband 's drawing the cheques , it could not be said that he had appropriated the company 's property . |
| 11 | ‘ You were saying that he has written a wonderful book — and that it 's going to be published ? ’ |
| 12 | A few years later , a homosexual friend of Anne 's said that he had come across a man who looked like Dustin , who hung out in gay bars , telling everyone he was Dustin Hoffman . |
| 13 | I become aware when parts of my body become tense and , more importantly , I know now how to ‘ relax ’ them , and when my body is saying that it has had enough I am able to leave things till tomorrow instead of insisting that they have to be done today . |
| 14 | The doctor is saying that he had to continue treatment as a matter of legal obligation . |
| 15 | It was said that they had met only hours earlier . |
| 16 | It was said that he 'd refused a smaller plan just because it was near his own home at Naunton in the Cotswolds |
| 17 | It was said that he had turned down promotion to sergeant , in return for being allowed to play cricket for his county . |
| 18 | In Right Said Fred 's first rush of press , it was said that he had played with ZZ Top but it was never quite specified how . |
| 19 | Freeth stayed on to become the first lifeguard too , and when he died during an influenza epidemic at the age of thirty-five it was said that he had exhausted himself rescuing swimmers . |
| 20 | It was said that he had arrived in the Discworld after some terrible and mysterious incident in another Eventuality . |
| 21 | She never said to whom that fresh statement was made , but it was apparent to the jury that she was saying that she had made a statement contrary to that incriminating one , and she was suggesting that the second statement set out her case as she was putting it in the witness box . |