Example sentences of "man [Wh pn] claimed to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told me how he had been deceived by a young man who claimed to be the son of a banker , and he had lost money in a gambling casino because he believed the con artist . |
| 2 | Eventually , when they were in Canada , in the fifth month of the picture , Dustin got friendly with an Oriental man who claimed to be 104 years old . |
| 3 | ‘ We can confirm that Det Chief Insp Keith Free of Heathrow CID did visit the offices of the Sunday Mirror , interviewed journalists and watched a video tape showing a man who claimed to be Phil Wells , ’ said a the spokesman . |
| 4 | Eva had left her £350,000 house overlooking the sea at Rottingdean , Sussex , in the care of a man who claimed to be a solicitor while she went to look after her 85-year-old mother in Czechoslovakia . |
| 5 | He recently met a man who claimed to be able to kill birds by shouting at them . |
| 6 | The family was held prisoner in a house in Clowney Street , in the Beechmount area , by a number of men who claimed to be from the republican movement . |