Example sentences of "and was said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nelson Mandela , president of the African National Congress , was in Harare as an observer at Mugabe 's invitation , and was said at his meetings with Commonwealth leaders outside the main conference , to have advocated a speedier progress towards the lifting of sanctions than previously . |
| 2 | There was curiosity and wonderment at those features of life that went unremarked by the natives but to foreigners were so eccentric , and so quintessentially British , like porridge and kippers for breakfast , ‘ a peculiar liquid which looked like coffee , tasted like poison and was said to be tea ’ , and bottles of HP Sauce and vinegar on the dining table . |
| 3 | A roundabout was built at the top of Anerley Hill to provide a run-round loop and was said to be located partly in five different boroughs . |
| 4 | He was tall , good-looking and fast-talking , and was said to be a first-class shit . |
| 5 | All three were sentenced to 25 years , although Martina Shanahan had served 200 days virtually of solitary confinement at Risley whilst on remand and was said to be losing her mind by the time the trial began . |
| 6 | A referendum to dissolve parliament was held and was said to be accepted by 99.9 per cent of the people . |
| 7 | Okudaira was still at large and was said to be a member of the Japanese Red Army underground group . |
| 8 | Rabah Kebir , a senior figure in the Islamic Salvation Front ( FIS ) who had reportedly escaped from house arrest in August and was said to be attempting to form an Islamist government in exile , said in an interview with Le Monde of Sept. 18 that the FIS wanted a dialogue with the government , and denied that the party had been responsible for the Algiers airport bombing , or for the assassination in June of the former HCS President , Mohamed Boudiaf [ see p. 38981 ] . |
| 9 | Ms Gibson was taken to Hammersmith police station and was said to be too distraught to be interviewed , a CID spokesman said . |
| 10 | He was not scholastically talented , and was said by some of his students to be a poor lecturer : ‘ Never was there a more irregular course of lectures , so that we scarcely knew what he was talking about ’ . |
| 11 | It is called a ‘ Wahoo ’ ( no joke ) and was said by Richard to be the fastest fish in the sea with speeds up to 70 mph . |
| 12 | Allison Battye 's behaviour was as unrepresentative as that of the sales engineer earning £10,000 a year who ran up debts of £141,590 and was said in St Albans Crown Court in March 1990 to have eighty-nine credit accounts ; or as that of the thirty-seven-year-old doctor from Gwent , made bankrupt in 1988 with total debts of more than £1½ million and still owing £780,000 , who used his credit card to buy £6,000 worth of furniture for his girlfriend . |