Example sentences of "reported as [verb] [conj] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | ON Thursday 31st October , two days before the World Cup final , it was with dismay that I read one of my schoolboy heroes , David Duckham , being reported as commenting that he would be ‘ embarrassed and very sad if England won the Cup playing the way they did against Scots ’ . |
| 2 | In August 1953 Sir John Nott-Bower took over as the new Commissioner at Scotland Yard and was reported as saying that he would ‘ rip the covers off all London 's filth spots ’ . |
| 3 | Just a fortnight ago , on 14 November , Councillor Mike Hastie , who is the Tory leader on Aberdeen district council , was reported as saying that he could not believe that the Government would now push through the measures . |
| 4 | On Aug. 19 he made a dramatic call for resistance , standing on one of the tanks stationed outside the Supreme Soviet building ( 10 tanks went over to Yeltsin on the night of Aug. 19 — see below ; the commander of tanks stationed outside the Russian Supreme Soviet building was reported as saying that he would not order an attack on Yeltsin . ) |
| 5 | Foreign Affairs Minister Michael Somare was reported as saying that he was " confident the agreement would bring lasting peace to Bougainville " . |