Example sentences of "[noun prp] said of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rudyard Kipling said of her : ‘ Being human , she must have been afraid of something , but one never found out what it was . ’ |
| 2 | Sentencing Fisher Mr Justice Judge said of the rape of the pahrmacist ’ No one who saw her give evidence will forget her visible revulsion as she described what happened . ’ |
| 3 | Théophile Gautier said of them : ‘ These cathedrals of the new humanity are the meeting points of nations , the centre where all converges , the nucleus of the huge stars whose iron rays stretch out to the ends of the earth . ’ |
| 4 | In the 1970 's and early ‘ 80 's the Club saw more changes than in the whole of its earlier history , so much so that in 1976 former President Tom Luker said of the course shortly before his death ( 1977 ) , ‘ It has been modified so many times it has gone full circle ’ . |
| 5 | As Pacey said of Dudek — he could never say it of Layton ! — ‘ ( his strength ) lies in his serious attempt to give as purely as possible the experience which is pure and isolated in his own mind , ’ a view which is offended by the notion of ‘ popular culture ’ and the torch-carrying it requires . |
| 6 | Shevardnadze said of President Mikhail Gorbachev on Nov. 20 , that after the coup in August " his change toward democracy is , in my mind , final . |
| 7 | At the same time Penny said of Diana : ‘ If she were to fall in love with someone prepared to go through hell , fire and water — not to mention Royal opposition — for her , she might think about separation . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Rich was the only one who could get round her , ’ Rhianon said of a particularly fierce aunt . |
| 9 | Defoe said of Chichester : |
| 10 | As Lord Mountbatten said of them : |
| 11 | Cliff Bastin said of his celebrated partner : ‘ The first thing that struck me about Alex was his terrific self-confidence . |
| 12 | Hankin said of the young midfielder , who can also play in defence : ‘ It is a big opportunity for the lad in front of a crowd of 13,000 or 14,000 . |
| 13 | Mr Hall said of his resignation : ‘ It was my decision . ’ |
| 14 | Last night , Mr Hall said of his resignation : ‘ It was my decision . ’ |
| 15 | As the poet Gray said of Grasmere in the Lake District : ‘ This little unsuspected paradise , where all is peace , rusticity and happy poverty . ’ |
| 16 | Struggling to contain his emotions , a shattered Wilfred Ball said of his son Johnathan 's death : ‘ This should be the last tragedy of all . ’ |
| 17 | It is tempting in today 's church situation to say of Smith what his contemporary Wordsworth said of Milton . |
| 18 | Nemeth said of Hungary 's transition to multiparty democracy that " the revolution happened not only because people did not want to live in that way , but also because the government did not want to govern in that way " . |
| 19 | Mr Roskha said of the trouble in Kishinyev : ‘ Several thousand people from the Popular Front and other groups broke through cordons of police and climbed on to the tanks and armoured personnel carriers , waving banners and chanting slogans . |
| 20 | As Bob Hope said of the Stealth bomber , ‘ If it is supposed to be invisible to radar , why do n't we just not build it and tell the Russians it 's there ? ’ |
| 21 | Graham said of Buksch : ‘ I 'm not allowed to criticise referees , but I shall be writing to the FA asking that this guy does not take charge of our games again this season . |
| 22 | Again , in Wright v British Railways Board [ 1983 ] 2 AC 733 Lord Diplock said of non-pecuniary loss : |
| 23 | But as Tolkien said of Beowulf , the ‘ large symbolism … does not break through , nor become allegory ’ . |
| 24 | Describing the CNAA in 1965 , Venables said of the wider powers given to it than those of the NCTA , that it was apparent that ‘ it is government policy for the CNAA to exert a central role in the rapid development of a quasi-university system within ‘ the public sector ’ . |
| 25 | Ice cool Dr Apps said of their big night out : ‘ It will be a bit boring but we 'll take a walkman and try to get a good night 's sleep . ’ |
| 26 | Hartley Coleridge said of Green ‘ Amid many discouragements and with no better patrons than the mutable public of Lakers , his spirit never flagged , his hand and eye were never idle , and he had a healthy love for his employment such as none but an honest man could understand . ’ |
| 27 | Hazlitt said of the Lyrical Ballads — ‘ Fools have laughed at , wise men scarcely understand them ’ . |
| 28 | Constable said of Lucas that he ‘ showed me to the public without my faults ’ . |
| 29 | Born in Trinidad , in 1901 C.L.R.James was , as Beauchamp said of Toussaint L'Overture , one of the ‘ most remarkable men in an age rich with remarkable men ’ . |
| 30 | Mr Faulks said of the application for the house loan : ‘ What we say he was doing here is , being unable to obtain loans in any other way , he is pretending to be selling his house to this fictitious person in order to get the bank to give him £43,000 on the strength of his house which they would otherwise not have given him . ’ |