Example sentences of "i [vb base] been saying [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I 've been saying to her well you 'll have to wait she 's been saying her feet hurt , right ?
2 Well that 's what I 've been saying to dad as well , I said the times I said we 've had cheques come back !
3 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 .
4 Rory , have you heard a single word I 've been saying for the past five mintues ? ’
5 ‘ It only proves what I have been saying for some time that this was nothing more than an arranged marriage .
6 This is exactly what I have been saying for years . ’
7 I think I 'm making my point , I have been saying for some time now that given the fact that all that security has n't produced the results , the logic of that is dialogue , and when I see the opportunity as I saw it , of dialogue , direct dialogue with Mr Addams that could lead to a total cessation of this violence , I felt it was my duty to do so .
8 To accept what I have been saying about epistemic appearances is to accept that our visual experience does somehow involve a judgement about what we are looking at , whether in our experience of works of art or in ordinary visual experience .
9 Erm I 'd like to refer to my page three or er section four in my conclusions because I think if I if I heard Professor Lock correctly I think he and I are at one in in a suggestion which is is put to you in in if you like without prejudice to the generality of what I have been saying in support of the council 's policy .
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