Example sentences of "said [to-vb] [vb pp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rebuilt in the mid-18th Century , it stands on the site of an earlier house in which Charles I is said to have stayed before the Battle of Edgehill . |
| 2 | Ralph Steadman was said to have run down the street telling passers-by , including bewildered elderly ladies , that he had got ‘ one in Punch ! ’ |
| 3 | The currency management was entrusted to a French bank whose shareholders were said to have prospered at the expense of Arab fiscal autonomy . |
| 4 | The man is said to have gone into the post office , brandishing what appeared to be a handgun , then fled empty-handed when the female assistant ran into the rear of the premises . |
| 5 | The man is said to have gone into the post office , brandishing what appeared to be a handgun , then fled empty-handed when the female assistant fled into the rear of the premises . |
| 6 | They are said to have disagreed about the shape of the clerical tonsure , Rome insisting on a variation of the tonsure familiar today while prelates of the Celtic Church shaved the entire frontal section of the head , from the temples to the middle of the scalp , and left long hair hanging behind — the stereotyped modern image of the Druid . |
| 7 | They are said to have disagreed about the calendar cycles whereby the dating of Easter was fixed each year . |
| 8 | They are said to have disagreed on the ceremony of ordination for a bishop , Rome requiring at least three other bishops to be present while the Celtic Church required only one — a plausible enough position , given the difficulties Ireland posed to travel at the time and the small number of bishops in the country anyway . |
| 9 | The central section , ‘ New States of Consciousness and Social Change ’ then deals with a range of beliefs and attitudes which are said to have followed in the wake of these developments , and in particular with what Le Roy Ladurie calls ‘ a deep and sometimes lasting permutation in peasant mentality ’ . |
| 10 | Rich merchants from Spain had traded there , and the young Christopher Columbus is said to have worshipped in the Church of St Nicholas . |
| 11 | At the presidential palace some ministers were said to have wept in the cabinet room . |
| 12 | On the night of the 17th and into the next day , the Germans mounted a massive bombardment ; shells are said to have fallen at the rate of 400 a minute . |
| 13 | Infiltration by Special Branch officers posing as miners is said to have occurred during the coal dispute ( McCabe and Wallington , 1988:145 ) . |
| 14 | The diamonds are said to have come from the court dress that Countess Lobkovic is wearing in her portrait outside in the upper passage of the cloister . |
| 15 | The fire was said to have started from the fridge-freezer . |
| 16 | His interest in polio is said to have originated during the polio epidemic in New York City in 1931 . |
| 17 | The Emperor Charlemagne ( 768–814 ) is said to have lamented to the leader of his court school , the York man Alcuin , that he had not twelve learned men like Jerome or Augustine . |
| 18 | Lawyers in the Environment Department are said to have drawn to the attention of senior staff that renewal of the contracts was in breach of community rules . |
| 19 | The first barbers at Rome , of Sicilian origin , were said to have arrived in the city in 300 BC , after which date the Romans were clean-shaven . |
| 20 | Volenti was held to be inapplicable as the doctor could not be said to have agreed to the risk . |