Example sentences of "[was/were] said of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was said of An Ideal Husband that the characters of Lord Goring , Lord Caversham and Mrs Chevely were the work of Oscar Wilde and Sir Robert and Lady Chiltern of Fingal O'Flaherty . |
| 2 | He was formidable , laconic , self-disciplined , earnest but not humourless , and it was said of him that he did everything with a kind of good-natured fury . |
| 3 | In Eliza Vaughan 's day it was said of Courtfield : ‘ You nearly break your neck going , but more nearly break your heart leaving there . ’ |
| 4 | It was said of him that he was preparing his Easter sermon early one Easter Day when the significance of the resurrection dawned on him . |
| 5 | David showed prudence in doing the things committed to him by Saul ; Job exemplified simplicity ( in the good sense ) for it was said of him that he was a simple man ; Solomon , in Proverbs , highlighted patience , where he said that a prince is made mellow by patience . |
| 6 | Less and less did Nonconformists like to have it said of them as was said of the Primitive Methodist evangelist and erstwhile coal-miner , James Flanagan , ‘ He waited not for an abundance of knowledge but used what he possessed ’ . |
| 7 | It was said of the younger Duke ( 1733–1806 ) that he intended to cover all the surrounding hills with evergreen woods , and many of the finest hardy exotic trees in this country were to be found in the park . |
| 8 | A man who tempered sentiment with business sense , it was said of Guillaume that he revealed the price of a painting with the same air of awed reverence that he mentioned a woman 's age . |
| 9 | When Edwin Chadwick , the great English public health expert , was visiting Paris , he met the Emperor who asked him what he thought of the improvements in Paris , to which he replied : ‘ Sir , it was said of Augustus that he found Rome brick and left it marble . |
| 10 | It was said of a similar occasion at Southend that the police were just rushing into the crowd and nicking anybody . |
| 11 | It was said of the Curé D'Ars that he believed in those who came to him more than they believed in themselves . |
| 12 | It was said of him that he always got the player that a club did n't want to sell , and the Jack transfer was a classic case in point . |
| 13 | By 1838 it was said of him that he ‘ ranks so deservedly high in his profession ’ , and he gradually began to obtain an increasing number of English commissions , so that by 1844 he moved back to London leaving his partner David Bryce in charge of his Edinburgh office . |
| 14 | It was said of him that ‘ the untiring perseverance with which he prosecuted his researches for evidence in any particular subject was inconceivable ’ . |
| 15 | It was said of him that he would have given the Masai Africa had he been able . |
| 16 | Edwin and Robert Grabhorn , who founded the Grabhorn Press in San Francisco in 1920 , worked so amicably together that it was said of them : ‘ When Ed 's away the shop goes to pieces ; when Bob 's away , Ed goes to pieces ’ ; but it would be a mistake to think that relationships between printers were always so harmonious . |
| 17 | ( Prove you did n't print that , and if it was said of someone else , that you were n't tacitly implying it of me ) |
| 18 | It was said of Comte that ‘ the woman he chose as his wife was nothing more than a means for the immediate gratification of his crude sexuality ’ . |
| 19 | It was said of Vaughan that he was ‘ esteemed by scholars , an ingenious person , but proud and humorous ’ . |
| 20 | He enjoyed talking about art with Rodrigo and , respecting his resoluteness ( it was said of him that he was the only Sohoite to be arrested for being drunk and orderly ) , asked him to act , with Anthony Lousada , as his executor . |
| 21 | Not much was said of over the next four hours , and the identities of Sixsmith 's supplicants emerged only partially and piecemeal . |
| 22 | It was true what was said of him — he knew everything , but everything that happened in the hotel , even , it seemed , what took place in the ladies ' lavatories . |
| 23 | Of course , the same was said of Bob Tway when he won four in 1986 ( including one that Norman should have won ) and that notion disappeared faster than Lord Lucan . |
| 24 | As a young man he was a charming and lively companion , and it was said of him that ‘ a person more invariably gentle , kind , considerate and affectionate , did not exist . ’ |
| 25 | No more was said of the job and it rapidly became impossible to tell who was trying to please whom over the matter of the Venetian lantern . |
| 26 | When I tried to discover just what was really meant when it was said of a particular girl that she had been " married " in this sense seven times before she was nineteen , I was told that if a girl was seen to be cooking a meal for a man this was evidence that she was " married " to him . |
| 27 | He was the archetypal theoretical physicist : it was said of him that even his presence in the same town would make experiments go wrong ! |
| 28 | It was said of Brent under the Labour council : ’ If you have a council that is as monumentally incompetent as Brent 's has been in the last few years , it rightly gets a major vote of censure from the public . ’ |