Example sentences of "[Wh pn] claimed [that] [pron] had " in BNC.

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1 On Oct. 19 the United Kingdom and US embassies in Ankara investigated allegations by a group of Christian evangelists who claimed that they had been blindfolded and tortured at a police station in Ankara .
2 There was also increased tension between the Kenyan authorities and Somali refugees , and on Aug. 16 , 1,550 Somalis were detained near Nairobi by Kenyan police who claimed that they had not obtained proper refugee status .
3 It was Artemesia who was tortured into proving that she was a virgin when she was raped and had to dispute all the ’ witnesses ’ brought in by Tassi who claimed that they had had Artemesia too . ’
4 On the 2nd of the following month Sir William also received a letter from William Millford who claimed that he had met " trouble " at the Pennington ( Muncaster ) Lease .
5 His predecessor , Expedito Ribeiro de Souza , had been shot dead on Feb. 2 ; police arrested a suspect who claimed that he had been hired by a local landowner to carry out the killing .
6 At the appeal , Patricia Mansell — who claimed that he had promised to marry her — said , ‘ When I became pregnant , his attitude towards me changed .
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