Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] said that [noun] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was said that Gertrude gave him the final result . |
| 2 | A difficult birth was soon linked to a disputed paternity , for it was said that Hortense had had a lover — several names were suggested — and that Louis-Napoleon was the result of an illicit union . |
| 3 | It probably had n't been all that good-looking in any case — it was said that Zlorf had chosen a profession in which dark hoods , cloaks and nocturnal prowlings figured largely because there was a day-fearing trollish streak in his parentage . |
| 4 | Throughout the past Five Nations series it was said that Ireland had reached rock-bottom , particularly against Wales and Scotland , and the only way they could go was up . |
| 5 | When Geoffrey of Brittany was buried it was said that Philip had been forcibly prevented from throwing himself into the grave to join his friend . |
| 6 | And it was in Paris that the Liszt-Thalberg rivalry began ( though it was not a thing of their own making , and there does not seem to have been any genuine animosity between them ) ; when they played in a contest in an aristocratic household Thalberg was declared the first pianist in the world and Liszt was thus deemed to have won on points , and it was said that Thalberg departed with his head hung low . |
| 7 | It was said that birds had not been seen nesting or singing in the area of Belsen since the war . |
| 8 | It was said that Horsley treated Hayling as the brilliant but wayward son he always wanted , but never had . |
| 9 | Although a number of rather insincere sounding press interviews gave no hint of any rift ( in fact they seemed to make a point of stating the reverse , itself a suspicious fact ) it was said that Morrissey had taken exception to Marr 's increasing amount of non-Smiths activities . |
| 10 | During the Artois offensive , it was said that Pétain laid every gun himself . |
| 11 | It was said that nature had endowed him with a penis some thirteen inches long and an insatiable sexual appetite — so much so that even in his teens his physical attributes were the delight of many local girls . |
| 12 | It was also difficult for a man who was in debt to be truthful ; hence it was said that lying rode on debt 's back . |
| 13 | For some reason , perhaps because an official collection had already been issued , the work was coolly received in Bologna and it was little " glossed " or commented on by canonists , and it was said that Innocent had again refused his official imprimatur . |