Example sentences of "reported [to-vb] [vb pp] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many parties ( including Civic Forum and PAV ) had asked the Interior Ministry to screen their candidates for possible collaboration with the StB in the past , and 166 candidates were reported to have withdrawn by the eve of the elections . |
| 2 | A small group was reported to have stayed in the embassy in the hope of avoiding separation from friends or family en route from East Germany . |
| 3 | In the following days , groups of soldiers were reported to have gone on the rampage in Kinshasa , looting shops and businesses . |
| 4 | A civilian gunman is reported to have gone on the rampage at the base in Kentucky which houses the nation 's gold repository . |
| 5 | I have given that estimate before , and the hon. Member for Blackburn is reported to have said on the strength of a newspaper article that we both read : ’ the Secretary of State has come close to misleading the House of Commons over the numbers required . ’ |
| 6 | This gave credence to the claims of some transferred Sendero women prisoners who told human rights workers that they had seen at least two women surrender who were later officially reported to have died in the fighting . |
| 7 | Stalin is reported to have remarked at the end of the war that to establish communist rule in Poland would be like ‘ trying to saddle a cow ’ and Soviet relations with that country ( the largest and most populous in Eastern Europe ) have borne out these apprehensions . |
| 8 | Sigua was reported to have fled to the rebel headquarters in a Komsomol summer camp outside Tbilisi to avoid arrest . |
| 9 | The UN , the US embassy in Khartoum and other foreign embassies were reported to have appealed to the government to halt the relocation programme . |
| 10 | The eggs are reported to have come from the monastery . |
| 11 | Farah Aydid was reported to have agreed to the deployment of UN guards and unarmed observers , but had rejected the sending of armed soldiers . |
| 12 | However , the talks were reported to have centred on the issue of water rights over the Jordan and Yarmouk rivers . |
| 13 | A special OAS mission , led by the former Colombian Foreign Minster Augusto Ramírez Ocampo , aimed at negotiating Aristide 's return to power , was reported to have arrived in the capital , Port-au-Prince , on Oct. 31 . |
| 14 | Mutinies were reported to have spread throughout the army since May 28-29 , when discontent in the ranks over pay and future prospects following an official threat of demobilization reached its peak . |
| 15 | Taylor was reported to have protested at the arrival in Monrovia in mid-February of 10 Nigerian air force fighter planes , and to have warned that he would continue to oppose Sawyer 's interim government and the presence of ECOMOG . |