Example sentences of "[pers pn] is say " in BNC.
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| 1 | When under pressure , though , she is said to throw tantrums , to distance herself from those around her and just take off . |
| 2 | The evidence she is said recently to have conveyed to ANC intelligence officers against Mrs Mandela throws darker shadows over what was already seen as a murky trial . |
| 3 | Following her husband 's death , she is said to have been given Weston Hall as a Valentine present by her father [ Sitwell , 5 ] . |
| 4 | At a meeting of a cabinet committee early last month , she is said to have ‘ kicked over the table ’ in consternation at the proposals . |
| 5 | The Lost Leader , of course , had not the remotest interest in sport , although she is said to look back wistfully to those distant Lincolnshire days when she would clasp the hand of Alderman Roberts as together they watched the bear-baiting . |
| 6 | Following the much trumpeted loss of her maidenhood , she is said to have undergone a test to determine whether or not she has AIDS , an ailment prevalent in that part of the world . |
| 7 | She is said to have shot Robert Staudinger , 27 , in the head twice . |
| 8 | She is said to have beaten the girl , torn up her clothes and locked her in a bedroom after finding nude pictures of her in Allen 's Manhattan flat . |
| 9 | She is said to have confronted the Queen 's private secretary Sir Robert Fellowes to tell him : ‘ If I discover my calls are being bugged , I 'm off . ’ |
| 10 | She is said to have put on 5lb in one week while on an eating binge — and husband Larry Fortensky is ‘ delighted . ’ |
| 11 | She is said to have been caught by a Post Office detector van at her home in Chelsea , West London . |
| 12 | She is said to have told the soldiers : ‘ What , only three of you ? |
| 13 | She is said to have turned him down but that rebuff did little to dampen his ardour . |
| 14 | Not surprisingly she is said to have complained that Louis was more like a monk than a king . |
| 15 | In Sarrance she is said to have written a part of her celebrated Heptameron , which is the French equivalent , even if frankly not the equal , of Boccaccio 's Decameron , a collection of seventy-two intermittently salacious stories . |
| 16 | She is said to possess 10,000 photogenic expressions but , for the time being , she simply sips thoughtfully at her iced Perrier and reflects for possibly the thousandth time on what it actually means to be described as The Most Beautiful Woman in the World . |
| 17 | She is said to have been ninety years old in 1849 . |
| 18 | She rejected Christianity : ‘ I do n't want to hear any more about that poor man , ’ she is said to have told her governess . |
| 19 | By 1774 she had 58 ships of the line : she is said to have possessed 72 in 1789 . |
| 20 | She is said to be bricked up in her room , spinning her hand loom for all eternity . |
| 21 | She is said to have suffered horrific hallucinations since her drink was spiked with the dance drug ecstasy at a friend 's 21st birthday party in Liverpool ten days ago . |
| 22 | She is saying that this good thing , this knowledge , can be used — to tell us , for example , that Amis is not a Tudor writer : but she is rather more moved to say at the same time that it ca n't or can hardly be used , devoted as she is to the thought of a separation between , in this case , Amis 's friendships and politics , his life — and his art . |
| 23 | At the same time , the atheist is perfectly entitled to claim that whether or not there is some special difficulty involved in defining ‘ God ’ , anyone who uses the word must be clear about what he or she is saying . |
| 24 | In the language of contemporary sociology , she is saying that juvenile delinquency is a subculture … |
| 25 | What she is saying , with her big white collars , is , ‘ I am a clean , controlled and decent Christian woman . |
| 26 | She wants her readers to think out for themselves what she is saying . |
| 27 | ‘ Certain people always look divine together , ’ she is saying , ‘ the Agnellis ; Bill and Babe [ Paley ] ; Jack and Jackie — divine ! divine ! — The Windsors , so cute , so tiny — what a chic he had — Michael and Molly Phipps ; Diana and Reed [ Vreeland ] … ’ |
| 28 | Frying-pan in hand , she is saying she has nothing for us , she had n't been expecting customers ; at this time of year there are visitors only at weekends . |
| 29 | Speaker B stops trying to take turns in the negotiation of topic and waits for speaker A to make it clear how what she is saying has some connection to the existing topic framework . |
| 30 | Alternatively , the sender may wish to make certain parts of the message the topic of what she is saying — the focus of attention — and others simply comments . |