Example sentences of "said [verb] been [verb] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | More than 160 members of the security forces were said to have been killed since February . |
| 2 | There are in existence some brief audio recordings of alleged two-way radio conversations between Blake and Bourke which are said to have been made in October 1966 . |
| 3 | On one occasion , Soraya saw a gynaecologist who was said to have been sent by Kim Roosevelt . |
| 4 | According to an oral tradition first set down thirty years after her death by Samuel Peckover , a prominent local Quaker , she was said to have been born in Paris , the daughter of James , Duke of York , then in exile , and an unnamed maid of honour to Queen Henrietta Maria , and to have lived at the English court from the Restoration to 1688 without , apparently , any contemporary ever noticing her . |
| 5 | The murder was said to have been masterminded by Fabio Ravalli . |
| 6 | Perrier 's source of Vergeze in southern France is said to have been discovered by Hannibal in the year 218BC . |
| 7 | IBM top brass is said to have been meeting with Hewlett-Packard officials at various locations around the US over the last few days to lobby for their support and an announcement may now be imminent . |
| 8 | The secret detention centre of Tazmamert in south-eastern Morocco is said to have been demolished in mid-September 1991 and its inmates moved to an undisclosed location . |
| 9 | Royal author Andrew Morton , whose best-seller Diana : Her True Story , is said to have been approved by Diana and many believe was the nail in the coffin of the royal marriage , said the princess may marry again . |
| 10 | To them its power to revive tired bodies and falling spirits , to drive out the chill and rekindle hope was a gift direct from God … which may not be entirely fanciful , since the art of distilling is said to have been brought to Scotland by the first Christian missionary monks . |
| 11 | Ground elder is said to have been brought to Britain by the Romans as a remedy for gout and has plagued us ever since . |
| 12 | There is a cross in the churchyard which is said to have been brought from Kilham at the time of the plague which decimated that village . |
| 13 | Valued at about one million francs , these are said to have been sold by von Keller to an English jeweller by the name of Mawe . |