Example sentences of "he [is] [adv] say [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gerstner is a colleague of Akers on the board of The New York Times Co , and he is also said to know former IBM chief executive Thomas Watson Jr , who lives in the same Greenwich , Connecticut suburb as Gerstner . |
| 2 | Gerstner is a colleague of Akers on the board of The New York Times Co , and he is also said to know former IBM chief executive Thomas Watson Jr , who lives in the same Greenwich , Connecticut suburb as Gerstner . |
| 3 | He is also said to have caught a huge carp there , and to commemorate this event he took a gold ring from his finger and wore it ever after as an earring . |
| 4 | According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle A ( s.a. 661 ) , Wulfhere harried Ashdown in 661 , in which year he is also said to have attacked the Isle of Wight and given it to Aethelwealh , king of the southern Saxons . |
| 5 | He is also said to have been a good Greek scholar and a poor preacher , and it is clear that he was retiring and modest . |
| 6 | However , he is now said to have been becalmed by his current companion , Miss Nina Huang Peterson who has nicknamed him ‘ Thumper after the character in Bambi ’ . |
| 7 | He 's also said to have telephoned George King saying : ’ That little bit of business has been taken care of ’ |