Example sentences of "rumours that he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are rumours that he disappeared for nine years in Elfland ! ’ |
| 2 | Threats have been made against Bishop Laszlo Tokes , including the confiscation of his official residence , the fouling of his house , circulation of false rumours that he harboured King Michael , letters predicting the deaths of him and his relations , threatening his children 's teacher , and his doctors . |
| 3 | The Chancellor had left Blackpool late on Monday night , after addressing party agents , but conference jitters were so great that his unexpected disappearance prompted rumours that he had gone back to London for crisis talks . |
| 4 | Rumours that he had been deliberately poisoned were generally discredited , but the exact cause of his death was never established . |
| 5 | Even the previous November there had been isolated rumours that he had suffered a nervous breakdown . |
| 6 | He failed to show up for the match amidst rumours that he had resigned as West Ham 's manager . |
| 7 | ‘ Rumours that he had profited from the Barings Crisis of 1890 . ’ |
| 8 | ( Cabrera withdrew early from the campaign itself , on Oct. 29 , ostensibly because he was suffering from acute pancreatitis , although there were rumours that he had been shot . |
| 9 | Rumours that he had granted peasants a chance of achieving their freedom spread far beyond the region to which his edict applied . |
| 10 | Rumours that he 'd been kidnapped or murdered as part of the split that was rending the Provisionals and the old Republican idealists . |
| 11 | You would have thought this would be enough to keep him in bread and circus animals for the foreseeable future , but there are rumours that he intends to watch the money grow by buying out Jobete Music , publishers of the Motown catalogue — a snip at $175 million . |
| 12 | There are rumours that he has finally ‘ shot it ’ , that the old managerial magic has gone . |
| 13 | But Heinz boss Tony O'Reilly 's Independent Newspapers refused to comment on rumours that he has further increased his stake in the Mirror above the 1.3 per cent he has already bought . |
| 14 | ‘ Rumours that he 's been fooling around behind my back ? ’ |
| 15 | Football , and Swindon manager Glenn Hoddle has denied rumours that he 's been asked to take over the vacant top job at Bristol City . |
| 16 | Indeed , there are even rumours that he wants to take over BAe . |