Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] say " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words were said with such good humour and aggressive sureness that it would have been impossible to take offence . |
| 2 | Words were said . |
| 3 | The words were said , not harshly but firmly , according to one guest at the most unconventional royal wedding ever . |
| 4 | Folk-song was a special case : here words were said to aspire to the condition of music . |
| 5 | These words were said by Antoine Lavoisier in 1793 . |
| 6 | However , it should be noted that Scrutton LJ 's words were said in a case involving a contract between commercial parties and it now seems that the insistence that public policy is primarily concerned with holding people to their agreements is now out of favour . |
| 7 | The husky words were said into her hair . |
| 8 | The words were said tightly and with reluctance . |
| 9 | After his victory at Auberoche , prisoners were taken whose ransoms were said to be worth over £50,000 , and in 1346 , according to Froissart , Lancaster 's army returned from a raid into Poitou so laden with riches that they had difficulty in transporting all their gains . |
| 10 | There are times when I 've pushed on when all the signals were saying turn back . |
| 11 | The Highlanders were said to live on a diet of children , while the prince 's quartermaster put in a well-timed but no doubt inflated demand for the town to provide billets for 13,000 foot and , a more accurate figure , 300 horse . |
| 12 | Having refurbished two bits of year-old evidence to support the new Libyan thesis , he now weighed in with a two-year-old intelligence report about a meeting in Tripoli before the bombing — in mid-November 1988 — at which the Libyans were said to have taken over responsibility for the attack from the PFLP — GC after Jibril 's West German cell was broken up . |
| 13 | Serbian units were said to be conducting house-to-house searches last night after ordering Muslims and Croats to surrender their weapons . |
| 14 | Taking advantage of the dry season , which would probably end in April , government units were said now also to be attacking the SPLA from across the border in Ethiopia itself . |
| 15 | Similar demonstrations in east Tehran , Estahbanat ( Fars province ) and elsewhere on Oct. 27-28 were reported by the monarchist radio station Kaviyani Banner of Iran ; in Tehran confrontations between the Revolutionary Guards and demonstrators protesting against rising utilities costs and fuel shortages were said to have become violent . |
| 16 | So if I wrote , ‘ The next day was a Fuesday ’ because I hit the wrong key on the typewriter , they used to leave it in , thinking that was what the kids were saying at the time ! |
| 17 | The funds were said to have been laundered and deposited in foreign bank accounts . |
| 18 | At one moment six Emperors were said to be alive , each as impotent as the others . |
| 19 | Was there a link with nearby Clifford 's Tower , where Jews were said to have committed suicide in the 16th century ? |
| 20 | But it was criticised for failing to provide a contents index , and its pictures were said to lack consistency and style . |
| 21 | All the candidates were said to be in favour of free legislative elections and economic reform . |
| 22 | But his eyes were saying something else . |
| 23 | I 'm a slum kid , her eyes were saying , you know that , do you think we forget policemen ? |
| 24 | In an age when décolletage mattered , her shoulders were said to be superb . |
| 25 | It 's ironical that only last week the National Association of Private Residential Homes were saying that they will be going bust as a result of inadequate funding . |
| 26 | A number of safeguards were said to be in force , the first being that all applications had to be made in writing . |
| 27 | Particularly bold demands were said to have come from students close to the Liberian border . |
| 28 | All around me voices were saying , ‘ Good luck ’ , as I walked on to the stage , but I was much too nervous to do anything but nod , grimly . |
| 29 | There had reportedly been no profit from Kuwait 's total $5,000 million investment in Spain , and KIO 's worldwide losses were said to be estimated at $5,000 million in 1992 . |
| 30 | At least 1,600 people were reported on May 11 to have been arrested in northern Uganda following a military crackdown in areas north of Gulu in which scores of dissidents were said to have been killed . |