Example sentences of "[pron] be said [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | understanding anything which is said to you . |
| 2 | This … this cousin Mary of Mother 's , whatever she 's said about her , might be a compassionate woman ; and I do n't think she has any children of her own . |
| 3 | May it be said of you that you found Paris stinking and left it sweet . ’ |
| 4 | Accordingly in my judgment it is not correct to describe the document as a will at that stage nor can it be said in my judgment that by his signature Mr. Winterbone intended to give effect to the document as any kind of effective document . |
| 5 | ‘ It is said of her grandmother that the only members of the cabinet who were not her lovers were those who had reason to believe they were her father , ’ Society Wag , Darling |
| 6 | ‘ It is said in our family that the gods made a mistake the day Fei Yen was born ; that they meant Yin Tsu to have another son . |
| 7 | As he 's said of his ill-fated time at Virgin Records , ‘ I had to keep telling people they 're not going to make me into the next Sting . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Very , from what little he 's said about her . |
| 9 | It was said to me recently , by a railway enthusiast , no less , that , when you have a car , the only cost in using it is the petrol . |
| 10 | When it was said to him , ‘ Try to look on God ’ , he answered , ‘ I was trying to make a little prayer , but my cough hindered me . ’ ’ |
| 11 | Edwin and Robert Grabhorn , who founded the Grabhorn Press in San Francisco in 1920 , worked so amicably together that it was said of them : ‘ When Ed 's away the shop goes to pieces ; when Bob 's away , Ed goes to pieces ’ ; but it would be a mistake to think that relationships between printers were always so harmonious . |
| 12 | He was formidable , laconic , self-disciplined , earnest but not humourless , and it was said of him that he did everything with a kind of good-natured fury . |
| 13 | It was said of him that he was preparing his Easter sermon early one Easter Day when the significance of the resurrection dawned on him . |
| 14 | David showed prudence in doing the things committed to him by Saul ; Job exemplified simplicity ( in the good sense ) for it was said of him that he was a simple man ; Solomon , in Proverbs , highlighted patience , where he said that a prince is made mellow by patience . |
| 15 | It was said of him that he always got the player that a club did n't want to sell , and the Jack transfer was a classic case in point . |
| 16 | By 1838 it was said of him that he ‘ ranks so deservedly high in his profession ’ , and he gradually began to obtain an increasing number of English commissions , so that by 1844 he moved back to London leaving his partner David Bryce in charge of his Edinburgh office . |
| 17 | It was said of him that ‘ the untiring perseverance with which he prosecuted his researches for evidence in any particular subject was inconceivable ’ . |
| 18 | It was said of him that he would have given the Masai Africa had he been able . |
| 19 | He enjoyed talking about art with Rodrigo and , respecting his resoluteness ( it was said of him that he was the only Sohoite to be arrested for being drunk and orderly ) , asked him to act , with Anthony Lousada , as his executor . |
| 20 | As a young man he was a charming and lively companion , and it was said of him that ‘ a person more invariably gentle , kind , considerate and affectionate , did not exist . ’ |
| 21 | He was the archetypal theoretical physicist : it was said of him that even his presence in the same town would make experiments go wrong ! |
| 22 | ( Prove you did n't print that , and if it was said of someone else , that you were n't tacitly implying it of me ) |
| 23 | It was said in his defence that he had been through a tough war as an Infantry NCO and the award of the Military Medal was proof of his bravery . |
| 24 | That might have been an inference , I do n't , it seems , it was there it was it was said by somebody er as a matter of course or whatever and it might well have been that erm certainly it would have been mentioned at the briefing that there was er a woman in the house , Mrs possibly and the likelihood of children , er was possibly also mentioned but there was no definite intelligence as to er the having any children . |
| 25 | It was said by his acquaintances in the pub that he gave value for money , but there was a touch of genius in the way he talked that night . |
| 26 | In Grace Abounding nothing is said about his life as a soldier except that it was once preserved by the mercy of God when another man took his place as sentinel during a siege and was killed by a musket bullet . |
| 27 | ‘ Is it true what 's said about them two ? ’ |
| 28 | Do n't make the fatal mistake of assuming other people think as logically as you do , or even hear what 's said to them . |
| 29 | ‘ What is said about me , ’ repeated Ipuky drily . |
| 30 | There was a long silence before Ipuky continued , ‘ What is said about me should not concern you . |