Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] said [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ You will be vexed to hear that some of the birds said to be in your last package from Sydney were missing : by what I can gather from your list they formed the whole of one of the smaller packages . |
| 2 | Thomas Cook 's achievement was , as The Times said in his obituary , to ‘ organise travel as it was never organised before ’ . |
| 3 | Schedule 1 includes references to certain specified sums paid out or received by Abbey or Wessex , some of the moneys said to be ‘ in respect of charges which were not due and/or were inflated . |
| 4 | ‘ I hope she 'll be lucky , ’ the wife of one of the brothers said without any feeling . |
| 5 | And it was interesting because er , we were talking about propulsion , talking about all types of er mechanics and sciences , and the way they 'd write up a report at the end which is part of the English part of it , and one of the youngsters said to me , he said , can I go home Mr ? |
| 6 | As the Commissioners said in 1788 , ‘ An Oak must grow a Hundred Years , or more , before it comes to Maturity . ’ |
| 7 | Did you know it 's a replica of one of the charms said to be over a thousand years old and dug up on the island of Bornholm ? ’ |
| 8 | On my way into the hotel , one of the guests said to me , ‘ What on earth was going on out there ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Some of the things said about me give the impression that I am quite mad . |
| 10 | His sister Pat is convinced that he thoroughly enjoyed Gentle Jack despite all the things said about it and about his own performance . |
| 11 | The auditors said in their certificate that they had used one " methodology " rather than another and that it was not clear from the clause in the lease which methodology they should use . |
| 12 | It is interesting to note that this example shows that what underlies Hobbes 's rejection of formal causes is , perhaps , no more than an impatience with what the Aristotelians said about them , and a desire to disassociate himself from that tradition . |
| 13 | Suddenly one of the leaders said to Karen , |
| 14 | well one of the girls said to me who sort of tagged on to us , she was on her own , er she said er what was the highlight of the holiday and she said that trip down the Seine |
| 15 | The Soviets said to Greenspan , ‘ Look , you 're an expert in currency matters , and would n't it be interesting for us to chat about these things ? ’ |
| 16 | Whatever the newspapers said at the time , we knew where every penny of revenue was coming from and every penny of expenditure was going . |
| 17 | I mean I can give you a little example erm I was once trying to add up a series of figures in the middle of an admissions exercise , and one of the other one of the men said to me ‘ oh , come on , you 're far too pretty to do mental arithmetic ’ and I completely lost my train of thought , I got rather confused . |
| 18 | As one of the trainees said to me over dinner that night , " If this is a training course , what 's the real thing like , skipper ? " |
| 19 | I shall tell you what the six-year-olds said in a moment . |
| 20 | ‘ Hallo , ’ one of the women said to me . |
| 21 | ‘ There 'll be a bus load , which means about forty of us , ’ one of the women said in happy anticipation . |
| 22 | Among our samples , for instance , 79 per cent of the spouses said at first interview that they wanted the dementia sufferer to remain at home , compared with 36 per cent of the non-spouses . |
| 23 | The engines said to Truro , he was first to go a hundred miles an hour . |
| 24 | There was an owl whose names was Blanche perch bravely on a narrow branch when she asked if she could fly , the others said into the sky high , high , high , so one fine day they came out and stood on a branch all big and stout , she jumped , she thought that she could fly |
| 25 | At first the leaders just listened to what Karen and the others said about the factory . |
| 26 | What the papers said about our results |
| 27 | ‘ Your husband , ’ the nurses said to her next morning , ‘ must have bought the florist 's shop . ’ |
| 28 | And then in the mid eighteenth century the storm broke , when in 1754 the antiquary and historian William Goodall published An examination of the letters said to be written by Mary Queen of Scots to James earl of Bothwell ; shewing by intrinsick and extrinsick evidence that they are forgeries . |
| 29 | The man with the bagpipes said in a phoney refined accent , ‘ How about dinner at the Gavroche before we go back to our suite at Grosvenor House ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ We 've talking about it ’ , the garments said on the front — ‘ Now let's fuck ’ , proclaimed the back . |