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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 " . |
| 4 | This was said through gritted teeth . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Nothing was said about institutional reform . |
| 7 | It was said with studied politeness . |
| 8 | A prayer was said for Iraqi soldiers , that they might die with the name of Jesus on their lips and be saved from eternal damnation . |
| 9 | It was said to small children and maybe a young man would say it to his lass but always implied affection of something young and tender . |
| 10 | Later , in England , it occurred to her that it might have been said ironically , but by then she had forgotten the context and intonation of it , could only remember that it was said under hot sun outside the Maison Carrée in Nîmes , where the air was fluent and the stones shone . |
| 11 | Simon denies that anything was said in private or that they were criticised by the coaches or management . |
| 12 | I mean I I would say that was an abuse of the position of power , because if he was Joe Bloggs in the street nobody would listen to what he was saying about electoral reform ! |
| 13 | And then it was saying about quantitative and qualitative measures . |
| 14 | So it 's going over the same ground but from the different er different emphasis because clearly my mistake last week was to try and cram in too much and to erm assume that what I was saying about modern sex theory was erm self-evident . |
| 15 | I ca nt even remember what he was saying about other matches — I was laughing at his ‘ expert ’ comments too much . |
| 16 | ‘ But do n't you understand , I only want to help , ’ she was saying with bosom-heaving passion . |
| 17 | and er , I was saying to old |
| 18 | And that was I it was , as I was saying in early January . |
| 19 | ‘ But of the people , ’ Fergus was to say with unconscious arrogance . |