Example sentences of "[vb pp] that he had [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The doubts about Mr Lamont 's survival grew after it was disclosed that he had withdrawn from the panel on BBC TV 's Question Time programme tomorrow , with Mr Clarke replacing him . |
| 2 | It was claimed that he had confessed to spying for the US Central Intelligence Agency , but the US authorities had always denied that he had any official connections . |
| 3 | Clearly , there is an element of political value judgment in such decisions : in 1921 a judge held that reasonable citizens would not think less of a trade unionist if it were claimed that he had worked during a strike : some juries might reach a different decision today . |
| 4 | Some papers later reported that he had stopped for tea at the Ritz but this unlikely frivolity was angrily and officially denied . |
| 5 | More than one witness recalled that it gained height steadily after being launched on several occasions in 1848 , and Stringfellow himself certainly considered that he had demonstrated with it the possibility of powered flight . |
| 6 | However suspicious he was , he surely realised that he had agreed to this visit ? |
| 7 | He did so now , read it , and was so disturbed that he had to drop into Cat 's Coffee Shop to sit down . |
| 8 | In 1989 it was revealed that he had engaged in a homosexual relationship with Steven Gobie , whom he also hired as a personal aide and driver in 1985 . |
| 9 | In Right Said Fred 's first rush of press , it was said that he had played with ZZ Top but it was never quite specified how . |
| 10 | A few years later , a homosexual friend of Anne 's said that he had come across a man who looked like Dustin , who hung out in gay bars , telling everyone he was Dustin Hoffman . |
| 11 | It was said that he had arrived in the Discworld after some terrible and mysterious incident in another Eventuality . |
| 12 | He had thought that he had done with her long ago , had assumed that she had lost the power to hurt him . |
| 13 | After travelling to the little mining village and speaking to Brown 's mother , ‘ I then set out to find him , having been told that he had gone to the pit with a barrow to fetch some coal . |
| 14 | The coroner was told that he had drunk between twelve and sixteen pints of lager . |
| 15 | I had not appreciated that he had moved in the Chamber . |
| 16 | She had assumed that he had come to Claudine as soon as he had finished chastising her , but clearly he had n't . |
| 17 | In his letter , Brig Cordy-Simpson said that since Gen Mladic had not replied to UN proposals on how the airlift would be managed , it was assumed that he had agreed to them . |
| 18 | Elizabeth never married but used her spinsterhood as a diplomatic bate — Robert Dudley , the Earl of Leicester , was very close and , after his death , his stepson , the Earl of Essex , became close , but he was executed for treason when it was learned that he had entered into a conspiracy . |
| 19 | However , the runner-up may have been an unlucky loser as it was later discovered that he had raced with a injured heel . |
| 20 | In testimony and published accounts he had insisted that he had argued against the proposition of selling arms to Iran and had believed that the idea had been abandoned . |
| 21 | The defendant , who gave evidence at the trial , also denied that he had confessed to Zaidie and further denied that he had ever made any threats against Paulette , as alleged by Zaidie and Matadial . |
| 22 | The reality represented the truth about movie-making itself , and a final shattering of all the illusions that had ever been presented to a cinema audience , for , seemingly , he had not realized that he had built into his masterpiece a piece of self-destruct mechanism . |
| 23 | Jesus has just stated that he had to go through great suffering ; to be rejected by the Jewish leaders ; and to be put to death and to rise again . |
| 24 | On autopsy it was established that he had suffered from a very rare brain condition in which the thalamus progressively degenerated . |
| 25 | On being informed that he had called upon her husband , she said coldly ‘ Dr Heatherton is out . |