Example sentences of "[vb pp] that he had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deputy Minister of the Interior Juan Carlos Mazzón was also dismissed on Jan. 15 after Noticias magazine disclosed that he had served nine months of a three-year prison sentence imposed in 1981 for fraud . |
| 2 | The doubts about Mr Lamont 's survival grew after it was disclosed that he had withdrawn from the panel on BBC TV 's Question Time programme tomorrow , with Mr Clarke replacing him . |
| 3 | Orchis is Greek for testicle , which is what the roots look like , and Lydia had told the company so , because Mrs Molesworth , gazing fondly and favourably on her husband , had divulged that he had bought her orchids on the recent occasion of their wedding anniversary . |
| 4 | Apparently in an attempt to deny the accusation , Ahmed al-Zahrani reportedly claimed that he had given Maha Banat 500 Riyals for sexual favours . |
| 5 | The C.-in-C. of the Army , Gen. Hérard Abraham , was dismissed on July 2 but later claimed that he had retired " for personal reasons " . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | However , another fisherman later claimed that he had dredged up the same body a few months earlier and , in the process of trying to recover it , the head had come off in his hands . |
| 8 | It was claimed that he had pulled too long and too hard in a trial of forceps delivery and this had caused the plaintiff 's head to become wedged or stuck , resulting in asphyxia and brain damage . |
| 9 | It was claimed that he had purchased the Surrey manor of Woodmansterne from its tenant while litigation about the manor was pending in the Common Bench before him and his colleagues . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She bit her lip , remembering that awful time when the news had come that he had lost his life in the fire that had demolished his holiday hotel — and how the tragedy , for her , had turned into a nightmare . |
| 12 | In the seventies , McQueen 's appearances became more intermittent , and it was reported that he had turned increasingly temperamental , rejecting more scripts than he was prepared to accept . |
| 13 | reported that he had attended a meeting and emphasised that the Institute did not wish to opt out . |
| 14 | Although it had been widely reported that he had made a full confession during pre-trial questioning , in court Watanabe maintained that " there is no truth " in the reports that he had paid politicians . |
| 15 | Under any other business Humphrey challenged ha reported that he had challenged British Nuclear advertising campaign in which they claimed they 're going to cause pollution . |
| 16 | It was reported that he had said the Government ‘ had fallen flat on its face in dealing with the situation ’ , adding that law and order did not exist in this country at the moment ; that there could be up to five million illegal immigrants in Britain ; and that judges should be able to impose the death sentence on anyone convicted of an offence carrying more than a fifteen year sentence . |
| 17 | Some papers later reported that he had stopped for tea at the Ritz but this unlikely frivolity was angrily and officially denied . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He said the driver may not even have realised that he had struck the schoolboy , who was walking from his home in Scarisbrick Drive , Norris Green , to Queen Mary Comprehensive , in nearby Long Lane , when the accident happened at the corner of Parthenon Drive and Walton Hall Avenue . |
| 20 | However suspicious he was , he surely realised that he had agreed to this visit ? |
| 21 | At that stage the airman suddenly realised that he had left the carving and " Jane 's " pants in the caravan . |
| 22 | It is evident that the deputy head soon realised that he had set himself an enormous task , despite the fact that he decided to focus on the work of three ‘ target ’ pupils . |
| 23 | And Prince Charles is starting to say things about that and whether that was misquoted in the press or whether he actually said it , the point was it was leaked that he had said it to a group of MP 's . |
| 24 | When at last he could return to the plans he had left incomplete in 1102 , he seems to have recognized that he had attempted too much . |
| 25 | After being pulled over , John sheepishly explained that he had taken a wrong turning for his home in Gosforth , Newcastle upon Tyne . |
| 26 | Fleury , of course , had no business being there at all , but Harry had sent him to the Residency with a message and while passing by he had found the defence so desperately hard pressed that he had forgotten all about Harry . |
| 27 | He did so now , read it , and was so disturbed that he had to drop into Cat 's Coffee Shop to sit down . |
| 28 | Its pilot had decided that he had to shake Daak off . |
| 29 | Jordan must have felt that he had made a dent , he went on relentless . |
| 30 | Afterwards Jaq had felt that he had betrayed Olvia . |