Example sentences of "[was/were] say [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people were said to said to have lost their nerve in the ‘ catastrophe ’ and in the heat of the moment to have given voice to ‘ comments hostile to the State ’ . |
| 2 | The words were said with such good humour and aggressive sureness that it would have been impossible to take offence . |
| 3 | Western countries led by France were said in some reports to be fearful of the destabilization of Morocco should a UN-organized vote go against King Hassan II 's claim to Western Sahara . |
| 4 | Many framework knitters were said in 1778 to work from 5 a.m to 10 p.m. in summer , but this was considered a departure from the more usual start at 6 a.m and finishing at dusk in the winter . |
| 5 | Two student detainees who died in the week July 8-14 were said by official sources to have in one case jumped from the third floor and in the other to have died of wounds inflicted during arrest . |
| 6 | Numerous Polisario members were said by Moroccan sources to have similarly defected after the appeal by King Hassan of Morocco in November 1988 for all Polisario members with " good intentions " to go to Morocco as their " clement and forgiving … homeland " . |
| 7 | Erm , it has actually worked , erm , in that it seems that there 's a very fair chance that er , in spite of the very discouraging things that were said by some of the people on my right when I moved this , erm , there is a very good chance now for a reasonable er , settlement in South Africa , which I think should erm , make everyone in this chamber very happy , and it is that , undoubtedly the case that economic pressure had a great deal to do with that . |
| 8 | Yeah you were saying about you said you said about erm the insurance , you were saying about that and what you were saying about your electricity . |
| 9 | Cos you were saying about that Golf . |
| 10 | No some other people were saying about that , you know , ah that they , you know that they were gon na put in for it but they would n't let them cos it was shop , you know , blah blah blah . |
| 11 | Now can you remind me again what you were saying about earlier |
| 12 | We think , but we do n't really know what they were saying to each other behind closed doors . |
| 13 | ‘ A British guy running 10.04 , ’ they were saying to each other . |
| 14 | She wondered what they were saying to each other . |
| 15 | The CVR allows the investigator to know what the members of the flight crew were saying to each other , and to some extent what they were thinking , at relevant times during the flight . |
| 16 | No one then had time to utter what he dreaded ; but afterwards , though those about the king held their peace doggedly , and spoke only of phenomenally bad weather against which no man could guard , in the ranks men were saying to one another that this was no natural storm , that there had never been known so strange and violent a tempest , that it was sent out of malice against them , either by Owen himself , or by those stiff-necked Franciscans of Llanfaes whose house the king had burned , and who were allies of Owen and the devil to the last man . |
| 17 | You know you were saying after that training day , admin assistants do have this . |
| 18 | one of them said , you know , he said how , how the hell how the hell can they say which directions the fire 's coming from ? but they , I mean some of them were saying like this mate he run out , he was going across this patch of open space and the soldier obviously saw a soldier and as he did that apparently he got shot through there and out the other side of him . |
| 19 | No but you were saying before that had it worked it would 've given them a problem . |
| 20 | This was said through gritted teeth . |
| 21 | Mum looked pleadingly at him but not a word was said between any of us until he was opening the door to leave and Dad said , ‘ Bloody good riddance , an' do n't bang the door when you go , I 've only just mended it . ’ |
| 22 | However , the reformulation appeals to theoretical notions which the authors discuss in the first chapter of the book , and it is unlikely that what was said about mutual cognitive environments in the first chapter is accessible for use for the interpretation of a passage about style in the final chapter . |
| 23 | So no more was said about that . |
| 24 | And then nothing more was said about that . |
| 25 | Two or three days after Miss Bedwelty 's visit the team found that nobody pressed them to practise anything , nothing was said about another riding lesson and life was refreshingly peaceful . |
| 26 | The transcript goes on for pages and pages , and not a single word was said about any of those increases being phased in . |
| 27 | Nothing was said about institutional reform . |
| 28 | Nothing was said about this , it just happened . |
| 29 | Almost all of what was said about this in Chapter 3 is relevant wherever TNCs create jobs , but there are some additional factors to be considered where this occurs in the Third World . |
| 30 | So as I say there is clearly a substantial er factual dispute between the parties as to what was said on these relevant telephone conversations . |