Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [adv] said " in BNC.
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| 1 | Question of budgets our I was almost said halleluja ! |
| 2 | She was also said to have doubted whether it would produce accurate information . |
| 3 | Mrs Kemp , 52 , suffered several fractures and is still being treated in Doncaster where she was yesterday said to be ‘ fine . ’ |
| 4 | It was freely said in the village that the blow to the reverend gentleman had been considerably softened by the terms of his late mother-in-law 's will . |
| 5 | It was repeatedly said , particularly in Committee , that there was nothing seriously wrong with NIE ; to quote again the hon. Member for Antrim , North : ’ If it ai n't broke , do n't fix it . ’ |
| 6 | Map adds that he made a note of this observation " for it was merrily said , and truly " . |
| 7 | But it was easier said than done . |
| 8 | She told herself that she must confine herself to anger only , but it was easier said than done . |
| 9 | It was easier said than done . |
| 10 | ‘ The people are mightier than a lord ’ — it was easily said . |
| 11 | It was frequently said of great men in the ancient world , for example of Plato , that they had had a god for a father and a human mother . |
| 12 | Yet it also signified , at another level , how pop music was responding to the undercurrents of the new mood of the country , and the pronouncements of an insistent , steely-haired woman in a blue twin-set about a sleeker , leaner Britain , built on the cut and thrust of the free market ; unfettered competition ; standing , as it was frequently said , on one 's own two feet . |
| 13 | It was flippantly said , but an insurance against fate , like crossed fingers . |
| 14 | It was even said to be the Nepenthe described by Homer which , when taken with wine , brought absolute forgetfulness . |
| 15 | It was also said to possess curative powers , as did several other plants which incorporate the name of the Virgin Mary or the saints in their Gaelic names . |
| 16 | It was also said that if the bow should move of its own accord after it had been draped it was a bad omen . |
| 17 | It was also said that money was received from Dutch Shell and Courtaulds . |
| 18 | It was also said that good motivation alone was not enough for the unemployed as training was necessary , however determined a person was to obtain employment . |
| 19 | It was also said that both masters neglected to wear their gowns , that the gardens were overgrown , and that , though there were still about 150 boys at the School , yet " they were of a lower class than formerly " . |
| 20 | It was held that the facts did not show any detinue and it was also said that C had done no wrong by not allowing A to enter and remove them . |
| 21 | It was also said that the Allies ' freedom to employ satellites , both for intelligence and communications purposes , gave them a decided edge over their adversary . |
| 22 | It was also said in court she did n't habitually drink so heavily , but she and her friends were regular social drinkers . |
| 23 | It was wittily said by a bright genius , who observed another to labour in the composition of a discourse he was to deliver in public , that such a painstaker was fitter to make a pulpit than to preach in it . |
| 24 | It was widely said that he had long resented the Shah 's great oil wealth and the independence that it gave him . |
| 25 | It was often said that her new-found reputation was a bubble that would burst once people realized it was just the raunchiness of her work that got her a wide readership . |
| 26 | For example , it was often said that the sky was full of stars . |
| 27 | Engineers , it was often said , only carried out ideas that other people had thought of first . |
| 28 | It was often said later that it was in Switzerland that Muhammad Reza required a sympathy for aspect of democracy , and that his subsequent attempts to reconcile such notions with the governance of Iran proved to be difficult . |
| 29 | While your brain is doing that it will be storing the words so that when you look at your sheet of nouns you will recall what was said for some while after it was actually said . |
| 30 | Well it was so said was n't it . |