Sentence examples for having been bribed from inspiring English sources
I remember paddling in the sea with him when I was small, having been bribed with a £1 note by Nana.
Almost incredibly, his sponsor, Arthur Dobbs, refused to believe this, suspecting that Middleton had found the Northwest Passage but was concealing the evidence, having been bribed to do so by his former employer, the Hudson's Bay Company.
Back in Athens, however, he was charged by Pericles and other democratic politicians with having been bribed not to attack the King of Macedonia (who may have been suspected of covertly helping the Thasian rebels).
This opened him a fair passage into Macedon, so that he might, it was thought, have acquired a good portion of that country; and because he neglected the opportunity, he was suspected of corruption, and of having been bribed off by King Alexander.
In 1769 he published a pamphlet accusing specified members of the English government of having been bribed by the French government to conclude the Peace of 1763; he said that he had acquired this information while living in Paris and that the Chevalier d'Éon de Beaumont, French minister plenipotentiary to England, had in his possession documents that could prove the truth of his assertion.
Hubbard resigned immediately and accused Purcell of having been bribed by the American Medical Association to destroy Dianetics.
Unless you've been bribed to do so already.
State investigators later determined that prison authorities and guards had been bribed to arrange the excursions.
State investigators later determined that prison authorities and guards had been bribed.
He eventually left office in 1995 amid accusations he had been bribed by the Yakuza.
