Example sentences of "[vb past] be said [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little had been said about the other regional aspect represented by unemployment and economic decline in the Special Areas . |
| 2 | When Hale came to survey the law of rape in the seventeenth century , he was confronted by centuries in which very little had been said about the matter . |
| 3 | Nothing had been said between the two friends , and Ella often wondered if she had imagined a situation which did not , in fact , exist . |
| 4 | Little more had been said since the telephone call . |
| 5 | Neither of them mentioned anything that had been said during the night ; they just agreed to head back to civilisation and not to mix whisky and cannabis like that again . |
| 6 | The mayor told them that he could not add to what had been said in the statement about the agreement between the three housing authorities . |
| 7 | It had been said in the past that there was a convention that the House of Lords would not pass amendments calculated to alter the kernel of a bill approved by the Commons , but in recent years amendments have gone much further than altering the fine details of the Bill . |