Example sentences of "it was say [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In Eliza Vaughan 's day it was said of Courtfield : ‘ You nearly break your neck going , but more nearly break your heart leaving there . ’ |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | It was said of the younger Duke ( 1733–1806 ) that he intended to cover all the surrounding hills with evergreen woods , and many of the finest hardy exotic trees in this country were to be found in the park . |
| 35 | A man who tempered sentiment with business sense , it was said of Guillaume that he revealed the price of a painting with the same air of awed reverence that he mentioned a woman 's age . |
| 36 | When Edwin Chadwick , the great English public health expert , was visiting Paris , he met the Emperor who asked him what he thought of the improvements in Paris , to which he replied : ‘ Sir , it was said of Augustus that he found Rome brick and left it marble . |
| 37 | It was said of a similar occasion at Southend that the police were just rushing into the crowd and nicking anybody . |
| 38 | It was said of the Curé D'Ars that he believed in those who came to him more than they believed in themselves . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | It was said of him that ‘ the untiring perseverance with which he prosecuted his researches for evidence in any particular subject was inconceivable ’ . |
| 42 | It was said of him that he would have given the Masai Africa had he been able . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | ( 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 ) |
| 45 | It was said of Comte that ‘ the woman he chose as his wife was nothing more than a means for the immediate gratification of his crude sexuality ’ . |
| 46 | It was said of Vaughan that he was ‘ esteemed by scholars , an ingenious person , but proud and humorous ’ . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | 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 . ’ |
| 49 | When I tried to discover just what was really meant when it was said of a particular girl that she had been " married " in this sense seven times before she was nineteen , I was told that if a girl was seen to be cooking a meal for a man this was evidence that she was " married " to him . |
| 50 | He was the archetypal theoretical physicist : it was said of him that even his presence in the same town would make experiments go wrong ! |
| 51 | It was said of Brent under the Labour council : ’ If you have a council that is as monumentally incompetent as Brent 's has been in the last few years , it rightly gets a major vote of censure from the public . ’ |
| 52 | It was said with a kind of embarrassed formality as if he , not Dalgliesh , were the host and he was apologizing for the unexpected absence of the hostess . |
| 53 | It was said with defiance , but even so Jonna was taken aback by the violence of his father 's reaction . |
| 54 | It was said with a ‘ whaddya expect ? ’ kind of intonation . |
| 55 | It was said with a kind of grim contempt , and he stared ahead as he spoke . |
| 56 | It was said with studied politeness . |
| 57 | It was said with such certainty , as if she were a slightly incapable old lady , and Jenna found anger mounting to add to her feeling of things being taken out of her hands . |
| 58 | It was said with no expectation of diverting her , and she paid no attention accordingly . |
| 59 | One Russian paper , described as ‘ highly conservative ’ , contained a piece , some of which , it was said at the time , was barely capable of being rendered into printable English . |
| 60 | It was said at the height of his fame that Bob was giving a living to ten Jamaicans . |