Example sentences of "it [was/were] said [conj] [noun prp] " 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 Harry Short 's great strength was that he had never tried to imitate smarter trainers , that he played by his rules , was his own man , but even this was flattering him . |
| 8 | It was said that Horsley treated Hayling as the brilliant but wayward son he always wanted , but never had . |
| 9 | It was said that Dinah Arkwright made a finer Lady Macbeth than Mrs Siddons . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was said that Mrs Rinehart was upset because she thought Mrs Hancock might inherit vast royalties from the tycoon 's ore resources . |
| 12 | It was said that Mrs Fribbins had suffered a bruise to her eye after being hit during a bed changing incident . |
| 13 | It was said that Mrs Fribbins had suffered a bruise to her eye after being hit during a bed changing incident . |
| 14 | It was said that Stoddart never played better than in 1890 when representing the South against the North — he scored 115 out of 169 — as Attewell , Barnes , Briggs , and Peel bowled against him . |
| 15 | It was said that Wandsworth and Brixton gaols were relieved of their less violent offenders to join this service . |
| 16 | It was said that Arkhina was among the most influential women of the Kha-Khan 's court , but she was too like her sister-in-law , his father 's wife , for him to be on good terms with her . |
| 17 | As Christian doctrine developed , and it was said that God in Christ took on humanity , in both Greek and Latin the inclusive term for humanity was used , not that specifically for a male human being . |
| 18 | It was said that George Galloway was one o' the blokes who 'ad Joe 's bruvver beaten up , but it was never proved . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |