Example sentences of "he announce [that] he [be] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Following his failure to grab a slice of Dan-Air , he announced that he is pressing ahead with plans to set up a small European airline if Virgin can get permission to fly from Heathrow to Brussels , Paris and Maastricht .
2 Instead he announced that he was to lead a National Government .
3 Last week he announced that he was to undertake a radical review of public spending and to look at the ‘ nitty gritty ’ of the welfare state .
4 Though he headed the Middlesex batting averages the following summer with 52 , he announced that he was growing tired of first-class cricket and left it in favour of golf and club cricket .
5 On June 29 he announced that he was terminating a $500 million loan guarantee programme which officials had described as " riddled with abuse " , and a further programme was terminated on July 6 , Kemp estimating that HUD had lost $2,000 million in waste , fraud , and mismanagement during Ronald Reagan 's presidency .
6 He announced that he was making good last year 's promise to look into the knotty question of advance corporation tax , an impost which has been the subject of a crescendo of complaints from some of Britain 's biggest companies .
7 Then , one day , he announced that he was going to check on the sheep .
8 He announced that he was going to the Blighted Isle .
9 Instead , he announced that he was going to the United Nations in New York to appeal for peace , and that in accordance with the Council 's wishes he would establish the long-awaited synod of bishops .
10 Christina gave up and was relieved when he announced that he was going to bed .
11 There was no doubting that this young relative of his made a fine figure of a man , he thought , as he announced that he was going upstairs to change for dinner .
12 In the next letter he wrote me , dated 7 May , he announced that he was to have a holiday ; and this I knew to be much overdue .
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