Sentence examples for saying of a from inspiring English sources

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"Never less, never more," Mr. Hadley was fond of saying of a well-realized interior.

One article quoted the town supervisor as saying of a cop involved, "The guy didn't murder anybody".

In a bitter story, bereft of his usual good humour, Twain has a character saying of a Spanish bullfight: "Well, it is perfectly grand, perfectly beautiful.

Mr. Tracy got a big laugh simply by saying of a fabled Jewish basketball team, the Dizzy Izzies, "They were very short, because you know".

I remember the warden of a U.S. prison saying, of a particularly violent inmate, that he already had way more time than he'd ever be able to do.

Jeb Bush's own mother threw him under the campaign bus last week, saying of a possible run by the former governor of Florida, "We've had enough Bushes".

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Evidence, she said, of "a robust culture".

"It's not a car," she said of a horse.

It is the result, he says, of a police battering.

"Is it possible?" Dickey said of a theoretical knuckleball revolution.

"That might spark their team," Clarkson said of a fight.

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