Example sentences of "he announced [that] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before another reading of this poem on the same visit , he announced that it began where he had begun , and that it ended where he and his wife hoped to end — in the parish church of a Somerset village ; he could see now the pattern of his life completed . |
| 2 | In a speech to representatives of the Moscow gentry in March 1856 he announced that it was better to abolish serfdom from above than to wait until it began to abolish itself from below . |
| 3 | Mr Cossiga 's televised remarks , in which he announced that he had no intention of accepting a cabinet reshuffle and might even call an early election , caused a political storm . |
| 4 | Although committed to the Independent Orange Order 's rally in Ballycastle , he announced that he would begin the Twelfth by visiting Portadown to add his support to the planned march . |
| 5 | He announced that he wanted to make a biopic of North , with Mel Gibson or Treat Williams in the title role . |
| 6 | He announced that he would make one of the longest fact-finding journeys ever made by a public inquiry in Britain . |
| 7 | Then , one day , he announced that he was going to check on the sheep . |
| 8 | In India the production of salt was a government monopoly : he announced that he would walk the 250 miles from Ahmedabad to the sea and break the law by making salt . |
| 9 | Immediately after this he announced that he intended to marry her . |
| 10 | He announced that he was a student of divinity ; did Mr Arkwright read his Bible ? |
| 11 | But it was the part of Fletcher Christian that fascinated Brando , and he announced that he would play the part if the script was rewritten to his specifications . |
| 12 | Following his failure to grab a slice of Dan-Air , he announced that he is pressing ahead with plans to set up a small European airline if Virgin can get permission to fly from Heathrow to Brussels , Paris and Maastricht . |
| 13 | He announced that he was going to the Blighted Isle . |
| 14 | He announced that he would pick his ministers himself , rather than submit to the dictate of party leaders used to bartering cabinet posts for parliamentary support . |
| 15 | On June 3rd he announced that he had become head of state , prime minister and chief of the armed forces . |
| 16 | Instead , he announced that he was going to the United Nations in New York to appeal for peace , and that in accordance with the Council 's wishes he would establish the long-awaited synod of bishops . |
| 17 | Though he headed the Middlesex batting averages the following summer with 52 , he announced that he was growing tired of first-class cricket and left it in favour of golf and club cricket . |
| 18 | Credit for forcing a decision on this issue goes to Rudi Fuchs , director of the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague , who caused a fierce public discussion when he announced that he wanted to deaccession two Picassos in his collection in order to create a fund with which he could supplement his annual acquisitions budget and concentrate more on collecting contemporary art ( see The Art Newspaper , No. 14 , January 1992 , p. 3 ) . |
| 19 | First established as a concept by the Catalan artist in 1984 when he announced that he would be donating 300 paintings and 3000 graphic works to the city of Barcelona , the Fundació was the subject of protracted negotiations with the local autonomous government and the Ministry of Culture in Madrid , which finally resulted in a handsome level of funding for building in which to house them . |
| 20 | In December 1368 he announced that he would do this . |
| 21 | He announced that he was prepared to admit that the invisible undetectable substance existed on the moon , but insisted that it was not disturbed in the way suggested by his rival but in fact was piled up on top of the mountains so that they were many times higher than they appeared through the telescope . |
| 22 | And , for the first time ever , he announced that he would be touring — not alone , not even with a small , manageable and economically viable ensemble , but with an enormous entourage , including a choir of young schoolgirls . |
| 23 | Christina gave up and was relieved when he announced that he was going to bed . |
| 24 | There was no doubting that this young relative of his made a fine figure of a man , he thought , as he announced that he was going upstairs to change for dinner . |
| 25 | He announced that he would count the passengers and that every ninth one would be thrown overboard . |
| 26 | He announced that he did n't give a rat 's fart for mumbling monks . |
| 27 | In the next letter he wrote me , dated 7 May , he announced that he was to have a holiday ; and this I knew to be much overdue . |
| 28 | In a sermon he announced that he would call a synod of European bishops to consider steps to be taken in unifying Europe as a Christian continent . |
| 29 | On June 29 he announced that he was terminating a $500 million loan guarantee programme which officials had described as " riddled with abuse " , and a further programme was terminated on July 6 , Kemp estimating that HUD had lost $2,000 million in waste , fraud , and mismanagement during Ronald Reagan 's presidency . |
| 30 | Shaikh Saad again met former Assembly members in early March , and on March 4 the newspaper Al-Watan published an interview with him in which he announced that he favoured the restoration of an elected parliament . |