Example sentences of "he was reported to have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foreign Secretary Roberto Romulo held talks with his Malaysian counterpart , Abdullah Ahmad Badawi , in Kuala Lumpur on Sept. 14 , during which he was reported to have stated that the Ramos government would abandon its territorial claim on the Malaysian state of Sabah . |
| 2 | He was reported to have presented five demands ; if Libya acceded to these demands the imposition of sanctions would be forestalled . |
| 3 | You may remember that Samson was a man of enormous strength and then , following a liaison with Delila and her cutting off his hair , he was reported to have become as weak as a child — and yet there was an occasion , which led to his death , when he brought the whole temple down by pulling the pillars against which he was propped . |
| 4 | He was reported to have said , ‘ I did not really know what an archdeacon does . ’ |
| 5 | He was reported to have said that Pakistan had in 1991 frozen production of highly enriched uranium , meeting one of the US demands , but would only destroy its weapons cores if India did the same . |
| 6 | He was reported to have said that the killing was ordered from prison by a Jihad leader Sawfat Abdel Ghani , who had been convicted of involvement in the killing of al-Mahgoub . |
| 7 | On Nov. 27 Kanemaru gave sworn testimony at the Odawara Municipal Hospital in Kanagawa Prefecture , during which he was reported to have acknowledged that his links with Ishii had been instrumental in halting the Nihon Kominto 's campaign against Takeshita . |
| 8 | He was reported to have acted on individual initiative , in expression of his radical Islamic sympathies . |
| 9 | His annual conference reception , at the plush Grand Hotel in Brighton , was marred by what he was reported to have described as a ‘ media circus ’ of camera crews and reporters as former employees protested at their treatment . |
| 10 | At North Berwick he was reported to have assembled a band of 200 witches to raise a magic storm which would drown the king and his new queen on their voyage to Scotland . |