Example sentences of "[pers pn] is said " in BNC.
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| 1 | When under pressure , though , she is said to throw tantrums , to distance herself from those around her and just take off . |
| 2 | The evidence she is said recently to have conveyed to ANC intelligence officers against Mrs Mandela throws darker shadows over what was already seen as a murky trial . |
| 3 | Following her husband 's death , she is said to have been given Weston Hall as a Valentine present by her father [ Sitwell , 5 ] . |
| 4 | At a meeting of a cabinet committee early last month , she is said to have ‘ kicked over the table ’ in consternation at the proposals . |
| 5 | The Lost Leader , of course , had not the remotest interest in sport , although she is said to look back wistfully to those distant Lincolnshire days when she would clasp the hand of Alderman Roberts as together they watched the bear-baiting . |
| 6 | Following the much trumpeted loss of her maidenhood , she is said to have undergone a test to determine whether or not she has AIDS , an ailment prevalent in that part of the world . |
| 7 | She is said to have shot Robert Staudinger , 27 , in the head twice . |
| 8 | She is said to have beaten the girl , torn up her clothes and locked her in a bedroom after finding nude pictures of her in Allen 's Manhattan flat . |
| 9 | She is said to have confronted the Queen 's private secretary Sir Robert Fellowes to tell him : ‘ If I discover my calls are being bugged , I 'm off . ’ |
| 10 | She is said to have put on 5lb in one week while on an eating binge — and husband Larry Fortensky is ‘ delighted . ’ |
| 11 | She is said to have been caught by a Post Office detector van at her home in Chelsea , West London . |
| 12 | She is said to have told the soldiers : ‘ What , only three of you ? |
| 13 | She is said to have turned him down but that rebuff did little to dampen his ardour . |
| 14 | Not surprisingly she is said to have complained that Louis was more like a monk than a king . |
| 15 | In Sarrance she is said to have written a part of her celebrated Heptameron , which is the French equivalent , even if frankly not the equal , of Boccaccio 's Decameron , a collection of seventy-two intermittently salacious stories . |
| 16 | She is said to possess 10,000 photogenic expressions but , for the time being , she simply sips thoughtfully at her iced Perrier and reflects for possibly the thousandth time on what it actually means to be described as The Most Beautiful Woman in the World . |
| 17 | She is said to have been ninety years old in 1849 . |
| 18 | She rejected Christianity : ‘ I do n't want to hear any more about that poor man , ’ she is said to have told her governess . |
| 19 | By 1774 she had 58 ships of the line : she is said to have possessed 72 in 1789 . |
| 20 | She is said to be bricked up in her room , spinning her hand loom for all eternity . |
| 21 | She is said to have suffered horrific hallucinations since her drink was spiked with the dance drug ecstasy at a friend 's 21st birthday party in Liverpool ten days ago . |
| 22 | It is said that the prison director steals the fuel to warm his own house in Meknes . |
| 23 | It is said to have been the biggest women 's gathering since suffrage days , a little more than half a century before … |
| 24 | Elsewhere Salim separates himself from the doers and makers of the big world beyond him , of whom it is said : ‘ They 're making cars that will run on water . ’ |
| 25 | When the pub landlord or cellarman considers that the beer is ready to serve — it is said to have ‘ dropped bright ’ with the sediment of yeast in the belly of the cask , and to have matured sufficiently — a long plastic tube is connected to the tap and the beer is ready to be pulled to the bar . |
| 26 | It is said to offer independent hotels the kind of exposure which hotels in big groups can derive from international booking systems — owned , typically , by the big airlines . |
| 27 | It is said that prior to birth the angels instruct the child in full knowledge of life and the universe . |
| 28 | It is said that his influence came through his extraordinary power , both learned and ‘ uncanny ’ , to rearrange suggestively the letters of the divine Name ( the Tetragrammaton : YHWH ) , which are so sacrosanct that they are considered to be unpronounceable . |
| 29 | Dark , hard and faintly bitter , it is said to have the side-effect of lowering blood-pressure , unlike most other things in Hong Kong . |
| 30 | He left during pre-production and it is said on the South Bank that nobody even dared tell Birt 's successor , the more ruggedly populist Greg Dyke , of the project 's existence . |