Example sentences of "[coord] announced [that] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | One night I was there , before the start of the film , a young man leaped onto the stage and announced that he was an unemployed actor looking for a role in a movie . |
| 2 | When the best man cleared his throat and announced that he was going to fix the puncture he had before leaving , all Moran 's children followed him out to the road and stood around as he got levers and patches and solution . |
| 3 | Steve Cauthen rode his 163rd winner of the season on My Lord at Leicester , where ten races attracted a crowd of less than 600 , and announced that he would not be riding again on the flat this season . |
| 4 | In the 1960s a man with an American accent arrived at a coastal resort in South Wales and announced that he represented an American corporation which wished to purchase a leisure and amusement arcade in the town . |
| 5 | In July the prime minister of Belgium and a committed Europeanist , Paul-Henri Spaak , stated that he supported a European Assembly and announced that he had asked the European Movement to consider plans for such a body . |
| 6 | He claimed that Japan discriminated against American firms in its public-sector procurement practices , and announced that he was reviewing whether Japan had met the terms of a 1990 agreement with America to purchase supercomputers . |
| 7 | In the Philippines , Taruc resumed his struggle against the government and announced that he was a communist while in Indonesia , whatever triggered it off , communists at Madiun in September 1948 attempted to stage a revolution within the revolution . |
| 8 | He stood up , slipped on a jacket and announced that he was ready to go . |
| 9 | And yet he had promised Skelton he would look at some land around Loweswater , and announced that he was so taken with the district he had a mind to settle in it — a statement which brought Miss Skelton to a blush-brink of applause . |
| 10 | Hall had arrived at Dalston police station about twenty minutes ago and announced that he was acting for Scott . |
| 11 | Widgery 's colleague , an NUS vice-president , conveniently ignored the other fifteen people sharing the post and announced that he was the vice-president . |
| 12 | Widgery meanwhile brandished his privately-sponsored U card and announced that he represented British student journalists . |
| 13 | He was extremely hurt by that and announced that he was a moderate and a patriot . |
| 14 | Rakowski in his Jan. 27 report had stated that a new party should make a break with the PUWP 's Stalinist mentality , and announced that he would not be a candidate for its leadership . |
| 15 | Mulroney , however , professed himself still optimistic that the Accord would succeed and announced that he was commissioning Lowell Murray , the Government Leader in the Senate and Minister of State for Federal-Provincial Relations , as a special Meech Lake emissary . |
| 16 | He identified high wage rises as the most serious problem , and announced that he would hold talks with employers and unions on how to restrain wage increases . |
| 17 | Justin Metsing Lekhanya , the Chairman of the Military Council , formally removed executive and legislative powers from the King [ see p. 37238 ] , and announced that he would rule in conjunction with the Military Council . |
| 18 | Kaunda said that his country 's experience of multiparty politics — from independence in 1964 to the prohibition of opposition parties in 1973 — had been " a sad one " , but predicted an optimistic future for Zambian democracy and announced that he was looking forward to " a good fight " in elections scheduled for October 1992 . |
| 19 | Filshin claimed that he had been set up , and announced that he was resigning in protest at an " anti-democratic campaign " being waged by the KGB and " central Soviet structures " to discredit the Russian Federation government . |
| 20 | He alleged that Gamsakhurdia was behind the raid on the camp , and announced that he was forming a political party to combat the " fascism " of Gamsakhurdia 's Georgia government . |
| 21 | President Richard von Weizsäcker described the events as " frightening and disgraceful " and announced that he would visit one of the affected hostels . |
| 22 | A week before it was due , Mamaloni resigned as leader of PAP and announced that he would continue in office as the head of a government of national unity . |
| 23 | The deposed king had announced his decision to return at the end of May , when he committed himself to promoting democracy and announced that he was planning to sponsor an interim multiparty government of national consensus which would include members of the military . |
| 24 | Helaf Orbis Ali resigned as Minister of Labour on Aug. 26 and announced that he was leaving the ruling Popular Rally for Progress ( RPP ) to join the United Opposition Front ( UOF ) — an umbrella group including members of the parliamentary opposition and the opposition guerrilla Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy ( FRUD ) . |
| 25 | Leopold Gratz , ( Socialist ) Foreign Minister in 1984-86 , was fined 450,000 schillings ( approximately US$40,000 ) after being convicted on Oct. 5 of bearing false witness in connection with the Lucona affair [ for details see pp. 38110 ; 38738 ] ; he had denied covering up evidence on the involvement of his friend Udo Proksch in the scandal , and announced that he would appeal . |
| 26 | When Lothar himself crossed the Meuse , probably late in September , and announced that he would advance as far as the Seine , Charles 's support in Francia collapsed . |
| 27 | Zen gulped down the rest of his coffee and announced that he had to be going . |
| 28 | After being sworn in , Perri declared his intention to work closely with Ibama , the Institute for Environmental Affairs and Renewable Resources ( with which Lutzenberger had clashed ) , and announced that he would take over as Ibama President . |