Example sentences of "[Wh pn] claimed [that] [pron] [vb past] " 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 March 7 , 1990 , Cetin Emec , a leading journalist on the daily Hürriyet was killed in his car in Istanbul by gunmen who claimed that they belonged to the Turkish Islamic Commandos . |
| 5 | Several years ago , miso came under fire from researchers who claimed that it caused high blood-pressure , then Japan 's number-one killer . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | At the appeal , Patricia Mansell — who claimed that he had promised to marry her — said , ‘ When I became pregnant , his attitude towards me changed . |
| 9 | For example , a county GRIST coordinator ( formerly a mathematics teacher ) who claimed that he knew of the Report but had not read it , made the following eloquent and not untypical statement : |