Example sentences of "[noun] said [conj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frederica said obviously that the sky and the sea and the boats were uncannily like Van Gogh , and Hodgkiss said that of course they would never have seen them in this way before he saw them . |
| 2 | When people objected that The Green Book was ‘ just words ’ — a strong condemnation in Huaiwiri — Salah said that of course some parts of it were not as good as others , but it was foolish to condemn everything in it just because some parts of it were wrong . |
| 3 | Lili said that of course I must , but I made the error of looking at my mother for approval , found none and saw only displeasure at my childish crudity . |
| 4 | However , Darwin 's critics said because of sexual reproduction I will only pass half that mutation on to my offspring because even then everybody knew that half of an organism 's inheritance in genetic , in erm sexual reproduction comes from the other parent . |
| 5 | The report said that of 1,330 active oil wells , about 700 were on fire at the end of April , with between 2,000,000-6,000,000 barrels lost a day , and it estimated that bringing the fires under control " may take up to 18 months " . |
| 6 | To the left is Tramezaïgues , a hamlet said because of its position on a northern slope to get no sun at all for three months in the winter and from where a very bad road leads up through the pine forests to the Hospice de Rioumajou , and one of the numerous old mule tracks into Spain . |