Example sentences of "he claim [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had demanded exorbitant fees for his speaking engagements and billed the Socialist Labor Party for theatre tickets and corsages which he claimed were for Eleanor . |
| 2 | They embraced one last time and then he was off , rushing to Ferdinando to help him carry down what he claimed were his ‘ very most precious ’ things . |
| 3 | In 1969 Josef Frolik of the Czechoslovakian intelligence service defected to the CIA with his wife and proceeded to give some startling information about numerous British Labour Party politicians and trade union officials who he claimed were working for the KGB . |
| 4 | Lyalin also gave MI6 bizarre details of what he claimed were Russian plans to sabotage military establishments in Britain prior to the outbreak of World War III . |
| 5 | Heber 's grants from the federal government for raising IQs totalled in the millions of dollars , much more than the usual federal funding level , and the results he claimed were comparably out of the ordinary . |
| 6 | He also drew my Attention to what he claimed were certain impurities in the material of my Cupel . |
| 7 | He had fled Romania after having been accused of helping anti-government demonstrators in Bucharest and after having survived what he claimed were three assassination attempts . |
| 8 | One result he claimed was a proof that the circle could be squared . |
| 9 | Three days later the matron had to take care of Clive Fairbrother , who lost half of one of his front teeth in what he claimed was a game of dormitory rugby after lights-out with Murray . |
| 10 | Another discovery he claimed was that of a cure for glanders : one horse had remained ‘ cured ’ for four years after treatment with what was popularly known as ‘ Sewell 's Blue Broth ’ — three ounces of copper sulphate in a quart of water . |
| 11 | For the unhappy family the process began with Mr Dunn the debtor receiving a summons form ( or writ , as it once was ) , and a reply form on which he was invited to write down whether he admitted owing Mr Rich the creditor the sum he claimed was still outstanding . |
| 12 | Many of the grisliest stories about Nicu 's alleged brutal debauchery were attached to the gymnast , Nadia Comanecj , whom rumour had it that he claimed was ‘ state property ’ and that he even ripped out her nails for refusing his attentions . |
| 13 | This continent seems to have been created by Augustus Le Plongeon for his 1896 novel Queen Moo and the Egyptian Sphynx , which he claimed was based on original Mayan writings — which writings , of course , just happened to be unavailable to other scholars . |
| 14 | This small shard of antiquarian knowledge which he claimed was the precise location of the hill , the peak in Darién , from which Vasco Núñez de Balboa was reputed to have first glimpsed the Pacific Ocean on the morning of Tuesday , 27 September 1513 . |
| 15 | As soon as Edouard Balladur was appointed head of the new conservative government in March , he told them that he would be asking for sacrifices to clean up what he claimed was the worst economic mess France had known since 1945 . |
| 16 | Yeo has written to the department criticising what he claimed was its decision to ‘ down-grade ’ the level of security on the girl . |
| 17 | He sensed what he called ‘ le moment favorable ’ ( a slogan from Lenin ) and on 13 August proclaimed the Committee for the Liberation of Vietnam , which he claimed was ‘ equivalent to a provisional government ’ . |
| 18 | Some of those taking ; part were already in costume : Jilly Fox was wearing what looked like an Iranian chadour , contrived from a sheet , Karen Gray was dressed up as a nurse , and Bob Saxby who taught pottery was encased in a Michelin-man spacesuit which he claimed was an Arctic explorer 's sleeping bag . |
| 19 | He qualified as a barrister in 1980 and within a year was an attorney-at-law in commercial insurance litigation which he claimed was making him £500,000 a year . |
| 20 | In Dee , however , Palles C.B. deplored such a view , which he claimed was ‘ abhorrent to our best feelings and discreditable to any jurisprudence in which it may succeed in obtaining a place . ’ |
| 21 | Khieu Samphan refused to sign the communiqué , which he claimed was fundamentally different from the Thai document approved by the four groups in May . |
| 22 | Arafat denied any involvement in the planning of the attack , but refused to denounce what he claimed was a " military " mission ( the Israelis , however , claimed that the attack was aimed specifically at civilians ) . |
| 23 | On April 14 Taylor declared that he had been forced to signed the Geneva agreement , which , he claimed was " unbalanced and unsatisfactory " . |
| 24 | In his criticisms of what he claimed was UN inaction Boutros-Ghali had the support of the senior UN representative in Somalia , Mohammed Sahnoun of Algeria . |
| 25 | When I used to ask him where he was going he would tell me ‘ To Phucke ’ , which he claimed was a small town to the north of Inverness . |
| 26 | This he claimed was due to the way in which the modular certificates are gained . |
| 27 | His justification for this apparent rejection was not theoretical at all : it was based on what he claimed was the ‘ abundant evidence of experience ’ . |
| 28 | UK Environment Minister David Trippier , speaking to UNEP 's governing council in Nairobi , criticized other European countries for failing to provide adequate support , which he claimed was jeopardizing key UNEP work on global warming and the ozone layer . |
| 29 | At his Swiss trial he admitted murdering Setty , whom he claimed was the father of his wife 's child . |
| 30 | He claimed British Steel and ICI were refusing to hand over analytical information on their emissions to solicitors acting for 28 local , asthmatic families a refusal he claimed was ‘ a scandal ’ . |