Example sentences of "he said of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said of the split : ‘ As far as I am aware there is no one else in either of their lives . |
| 2 | ‘ Ask Kenny Dalglish about it , ’ he said of the incident which turned the game . |
| 3 | ‘ I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs , ’ he said of the fight against anti-Europeans in his own party . |
| 4 | Although Mr Wallace agreed that a referendum call was potentially unifying , he said of the convention : ‘ I ca n't see it having any active role at the present time . ’ |
| 5 | He said of the assault ’ Had it occurred on a street in a city like Oxford it would have merited imprisonment . |
| 6 | He said of the Coronation poster : ‘ I always thought the idea for that poster was the apogee of my career as a copywriter because , although I enjoyed thinking up ideas , I always founding writing copy very hard work . ’ |
| 7 | He said of the rate rise : ‘ It is tactically wrong and very damaging to our already hard-hit industry . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Hell it could be a love letter for all I know , ’ he said of the missive from Ms Bettye Fulford of Macon , Georgia . |
| 9 | The former Kray henchman dashed Fleet Street scribes ' hopes for a headline such as ‘ The Silence Of The Lambrianou ’ when he said of the underworld bloodletting : ‘ It was the biggest mistake the Krays made . ’ |