Example sentences of "say [pers pn] [verb] [been] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sheena , can I be the odd one out and say I 've been in love with one man for forty five years , I have n't heard any body saying any thing very nice about that , I would like to say its wonderful . |
| 2 | he says I 've been to Wembley |
| 3 | He come in , his eye 's right out here , and it 's streaming with water and he says he 's been to hospital , they dripped some water in it , washed it out must be mine that , what do you reckon ? |
| 4 | Helen did n't help herself or increase the possibility of peace on earth by saying she 'd been at Dad 's Chislehurst gig . |
| 5 | And he was telling , you know erm it was the er Christmas thing , he was t saying he 'd been to France on a cheap ticket had n't he ? |
| 6 | I , I waited until I got back into Switzerland before I said I 've been to Italy and I have n't got a scratch on the car . |
| 7 | ‘ The programme notes said you 'd been in Cats . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Your niece said you 've been to Paris , ’ Sabine said as the lemonade was poured . |
| 9 | Although he was wary of commenting on a specific meeting , Mr Hyde said the company ‘ would not make it a matter of policy to say we have been in contact or received authorisation , if that had n't been the case ’ . |
| 10 | The evil wind that bombed Manhattan 's World Trade Center nevertheless blew some good to the disaster recovery specialists : SunGard Data Systems Inc says it has been contacted by four subscriber companies seeking disaster recovery services following the blast — two in Four World Trade Center , one in Two World Trade Center and one in One World Trade Center ; and Comdisco Inc said it is providing disaster recovery services to three financial services companies hit by the blast , while IBM Corp 's disaster recovery unit said it had been in touch with ‘ a lot ’ of its customers , but that so far none of its customers had had to declare their workplaces to be disaster areas . |
| 11 | Livingstone said he had been at home at the time of the trouble while Hardy said he watched the disturbance , although he did not throw anything . |
| 12 | His mother Diane and girlfriend Donna Williams said he had been at home with them . |
| 13 | Roderick Hunt , defending Brooklyn , said he had been in custody for five weeks . |
| 14 | It had looked suspicious , I had done right to inform them , they said kindly , but the man had nothing on his person at all , and said he had been after rabbits . |
| 15 | He said he 'd been at Parkhead recently ( his son is in the reserves ) and Billy Bremner had been there . |