Example sentences of "[adv] announce that he [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 The television was switched on , Omi started a new piece of crochet-work , Herr Nordern abandoned his statistics , Frau Nordern her reports , and Paul , boldly and half-truthfully announcing that he had finished his homework , joined Erika on the sofa to watch a good thriller on West German television .
2 But she heard herself saying , still in shrewish style , that on the contrary there was n't any time in the morning , that she had to go to a psychoanalytical conference in the Metropole Hotel with a bunch of Japanese in the morning , that she wanted to talk now , that he could n't just announce that he wanted to get divorced and then decide he was too tired to talk about it .
3 Yeltsin also announced that he had taken control of Soviet armed forces on Russian territory and on Aug. 23 he banned party organizations in them .
4 The left-wing Dev Sol group later announced that he had been " punished " for his participation in the 1980 military coup .
5 Amir now announced that he had all along been a Communist !
6 Following his appointment Lee immediately announced that he intended to close the DSC interrogation bureau , reduce the total number of intelligence agents and streamline the organization 's structure .
7 Please do not do er what a young man did the other day went to his house , he was the victim of a burglary , he very proudly announced that he 'd fitted one of these locks to his front door when we saw how he 'd fitted it , he 'd actually chiselled out the majority of the side of his door in and filled it up with Polyfilla !
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