Example sentences of "say [pron] [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say she 'd been depressed in recent days |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You say you have been free of pain for nearly two years ? ’ he said , when he had finished . |
| 4 | Touche Ross , the receivers for Scarborough 's troubled Royal Hotel , say there has been keen interest from potential buyers and negotiations should start soon . |
| 5 | ‘ Now they say there has been secret dumping of waste from the submarines and nuclear icebreakers . |
| 6 | Turn your back they 're talking to you say they 've been nasty and then they come back and talk to you . |
| 7 | They say they have been innocent victims in a crime for which the law says they must also be punished . |
| 8 | Villagers are demanding the removal of their local bobby because they say he 's been over-zealous in handing out parking tickets . |
| 9 | It says I 've been good at the doctor today . |
| 10 | She says she 's been open with us , she is selling them to raise funds . |
| 11 | She says she 's been open with us , she is selling them to raise funds . |
| 12 | Matt said , ‘ Silas says you 've been busy in the office . ’ |
| 13 | He says there 's been proper consultation with the local communities and the local authorities including the parish councils . |
| 14 | John Major and Albert Reynolds have said there has been some progress in talks on the future of Northern Ireland . |
| 15 | Well then th they must have been she said they 'd been concerned all day . |
| 16 | Paul Bodin says he 's been lucky … he 's been in the right place at the right time and has managed to take the chances … |
| 17 | One resident says he has been unable to get out of his back garden after a lorry backed into the wall and buckled the gate . |
| 18 | Another says he has been unable to open his garage door for days after a skip filled with bricks was dumped outside . |
| 19 | For some time it has had career breaks to help women ( and occasionally men ) with family needs and he says it has been successful . |
| 20 | In this year 's campaign , there have been heated discussions about the state of housing under the Labour council — but apart from that , Hamilton says it has been easier than expected . |
| 21 | Despite anecdotal reports of serious bugs in Microsoft Corp 's new MS-DOS 6.0 , PC Week Labs says it has been unable to reproduce in a controlled laboratory environment any of the data-threatening errors specifically attributed to MS-DOS 6.0 or its DoubleSpace component , adding that it believes that many of the reported data-destroying errors can be attributed to the sudden introduction of SMARTDRV , the MS-DOS and Windows cache program , onto previously uncached systems — SMARTDRV caches disk writes , and any sudden power-down can cause unrecoverable file and disk errors — but be that as it may , Microsoft is taking the reports of data loss sufficiently seriously that it has pledged to do whatever it takes to track down and purge any serious flaws , although it has found none , and InfoWorld reported it found several problems , including one in the DoubleSpace data compression — but Microsoft said two of its engineers looked into but could not replicate the problems InfoWorld saw . |
| 22 | Following the earlier reduction of similar size Amdahl says it has been able to restructure or consolidate a number of operations and the new cuts represent a further streamlining . |
| 23 | The company says it has been able to generate high levels of repeat income from long term contracts in the financial services area and is keen to collaborate with other suppliers to expand its service and product range . |
| 24 | Following the earlier reduction of similar size Amdahl says it has been able to restructure or consolidate a number of operations and the new cuts represent a further streamlining . |
| 25 | Dr Marshall says it 's been such a success he 'd like to see his research go up in flames again |
| 26 | Dr Marshall says it 's been such a success he 'd like to see his research go up in flames again |
| 27 | Labour MP Terry Lewis , who sponsored the Bill , says it 's been successful in New South Wales , Australia , where alcohol related accidents have dropped by a third . |
| 28 | ‘ The Doctor says it 's been three years for you , ’ the Professor said . |
| 29 | Severn Trent says it 's been aware of the problem , but the money was never available to carry out the upgrading . |
| 30 | Derek Hegarty says it 's been tougher than they expected because the winds up in Scotland were very strong and after a few days they had troubles with their knees but they 've managed to keep going … |