Example sentences of "announced [conj] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | I recall that two years ago at the NFT he announced that his great ambition as a young man had been to become a movie director : now ( aided by director of photography William Lubtchansky and production designer Chloe Obolensky ) he has made a landmark television film . |
| 2 | In the poem Frost at Midnight Coleridge announced that his child Hartley was to be educated according to this theory , and Wordsworth , in writing about his own childhood , makes out a case that he was an example of the same process : The Prelude describes Wordsworth 's formative years from this point of view , and though the facts may be correct , the selection and emphasis of the facts is open to question . |
| 3 | IN 1826 , Richard Newcomb , the proprietor of the Stamford Mercury , announced that his newspaper was the earliest provincial paper ever' published in Britain . |
| 4 | So it was a shock to them when , during lunch that Thursday , Jones announced that his Brigham Young University team was preparing to publish its data and offered to let Fleischmann and Pons publish simultaneously . |
| 5 | And the flamboyant Chelsea chairman announced that his 11-year marriage to wife Pam is over . |
| 6 | On April 20th , Andres Soriano , the boss of San Miguel , the biggest company in the Philippines , announced that his firm was planning to build a brewery in Vietnam . |
| 7 | ‘ We decided that the only course was to run away to marry at Gretna Green , because her guardian , as soon as he knew of my interest , first tried to get my apprenticeship broken and then announced that his son would marry Catherine on the day of her twenty-first birthday — two weeks from now . |
| 8 | Details presented themselves to him with unusual clarity : the sprinkling of grey hairs among Henry 's curls ; an ambulance siren and a helicopter fighting for dominance outside ; and the dryness at the back of his throat which announced that his addiction to tobacco was craving to be fed . |
| 9 | Elliott wrote to Keele and announced that his university career was over . |
| 10 | In addition the Czechoslovak Finance Minister , Vaclav Klaus , on March 22 announced that his country was withdrawing from three multilateral agreements , the most important of which was an exchange-rate agreement governing trade between COMECON countries . |
| 11 | After a two-hour operation doctors announced that his life was no longer in danger . |
| 12 | During a visit in October 1989 French Co-operation and Development Minister Jacques Pelletier announced that his government 's budgetary assistance would continue beyond the expiry in November 1989 of the current aid agreement . |
| 13 | During a televised national address on July 20 , Roh announced that his government would open the border at Panmunjom for five days from Aug. 13 and allow unrestricted crossings , although a government spokesman later suggested that the country 's leading dissidents would not be permitted to travel to the North . |
| 14 | On July 4 , 1989 , Guy Gennesseaux , leader and founder of the centre-left French Democratic Party ( Parti démocrate français — PDF — which had broken away from the Radical Socialist Party in 1982 when the latter refused to leave the UDF ) , announced that his party was joining the centre-left grouping , Presidential Majority ( majorité présidentielle ) . |
| 15 | In February the commander of the Border Guard announced that his forces were to be cut from 22,000 to 9,000 over the following five years . |
| 16 | For his part , Croatia 's President Franjo Tudjman announced that his republic would follow suit unless agreement on Yugoslavia 's future was reached by the end of June . |
| 17 | On May 19 Shin Kanemaru , leader of what was still generally considered to be the Takeshita faction in the LDP , announced that his grouping would field a candidate for the LDP leadership election in October . |
| 18 | On May 27 President Najibullah announced that his government would accept a ceasefire with the mujaheddin in order to allow the implementation of a UN peace plan . |
| 19 | On Aug. 17 , the Australian Foreign Affairs Minister , Gareth Evans announced that his government would introduce legislation at the end of 1990 banning mining in the Australian zone , totalling about 42 per cent of Antarctica . |
| 20 | On June 26 Hun Sen , the SOC Premier , announced that his government was prepared to accept a " limited " UN role in supervising the ceasefire . |
| 21 | On Sept. 21 , 1990 , Paasio announced that his government considered that after the unification of Germany parts of the Paris Treaty ( concluded in 1947 between Finland and the allied powers and limiting the country 's sovereignty and defence forces — see pp. 8517-18 ) would no longer apply . |
| 22 | Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti on Dec. 1 announced that his four-party coalition government was planning for a general election in March or early April 1992 . |
| 23 | He announced that his " government " would be dissolved within 72 hours and that his troops would withdraw from within 3 km of the Sierra Leone border . |
| 24 | On April 17 Kozyrev announced that his government would submit the START treaty to the Russian parliament for ratification . |
| 25 | Anand , who claimed that he would not seek re-election , announced that his objectives in his allotted time in government were to increase the participation of the public and business sector in politics , to begin the demilitarization of the political process , and to disengage from commercial practices the armed forces , many of whose leaders headed major companies . |
| 26 | Orbis Ali , an Afar , announced that his resignation was in protest against the civil war , which had now continued for one year , and against the deteriorating economic situation . |
| 27 | He announced that his vice-presidential running mate was James B. Stockdale , a retired admiral with little political experience . |
| 28 | Hariri announced that his government had set itself objectives of " liberation , reform and development " . |
| 29 | On 26 March he announced that his armies would begin their final advance and Republican forces should show the white flag on all fronts . |