Example sentences of "claim [conj] [pers pn] had [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Extraditables subsequently claimed that they had decided to spare her life but had been unable to prevent her murder from being carried out . |
| 2 | Gorbachev , in his response to the results , nonetheless claimed that they had received a mandate for the ‘ renewal and strengthening of the union state ’ and promised to press ahead with the conclusion of the union treaty and a new constitution . |
| 3 | Such changes would not have been inhibited necessarily by the teacher action , but none of the teachers I interviewed claimed that they had changed their methods to any great extent . |
| 4 | The group later claimed that they had released the two men . |
| 5 | The Iranian government had claimed that they had supplied information for the UN report on human rights in Iran , published in February , which noted the continuing use of torture and other abuses . |
| 6 | The company previously claimed that it had used biodegradable cardboard packaging since 1957 . |
| 7 | But a confidence trickster , who is being investigated by Scotland Yard , is believed to have claimed that she had hidden £500,000 abroad . |
| 8 | Apparently in an attempt to deny the accusation , Ahmed al-Zahrani reportedly claimed that he had given Maha Banat 500 Riyals for sexual favours . |
| 9 | The C.-in-C. of the Army , Gen. Hérard Abraham , was dismissed on July 2 but later claimed that he had retired " for personal reasons " . |
| 10 | It was claimed that he had confessed to spying for the US Central Intelligence Agency , but the US authorities had always denied that he had any official connections . |
| 11 | However , another fisherman later claimed that he had dredged up the same body a few months earlier and , in the process of trying to recover it , the head had come off in his hands . |
| 12 | It was claimed that he had pulled too long and too hard in a trial of forceps delivery and this had caused the plaintiff 's head to become wedged or stuck , resulting in asphyxia and brain damage . |
| 13 | It was claimed that he had purchased the Surrey manor of Woodmansterne from its tenant while litigation about the manor was pending in the Common Bench before him and his colleagues . |
| 14 | Clearly , there is an element of political value judgment in such decisions : in 1921 a judge held that reasonable citizens would not think less of a trade unionist if it were claimed that he had worked during a strike : some juries might reach a different decision today . |
| 15 | His babe in arms would be no more responsive to Lloyd George 's leonine appearance than would an accompanying parakeet in a cage and if both , having seen him , were then carried around the National Gallery , it would be equally valid to claim that they had seen the works of art on display as well . |
| 16 | We had to repossess what fate had handed us on a plate , and the only way to do this was to claim that we had willed it all along . |
| 17 | The fact that he could provide a series of alternative policies to achieve full employment led Beveridge to claim that he had avoided the controversy between socialism and capitalism as the only ways of operating a modern economy . |
| 18 | Later Marie Wassilieff too was to claim that she had persuaded Modigliani to take up painting again . |
| 19 | But , on balance , the government seemed able to claim that it had turned the tide , albeit with the aid of £2 billions from North Sea oil to swing the balance into surplus . |
| 20 | The first was the assumption that a ‘ form of words ’ which did not amend the text of the Treaty would be sufficient for the Danish Government to be able to claim that it had satisfied the wishes of the people as expressed in the referendum . |
| 21 | In fact as well as fiction the Victorian house had become more private than its Regency predecessors ; one might even claim that it had developed distinct symptoms of Wemmick 's siege mentality . |
| 22 | Members of the Ovens Action Group ( OAG ) claimed that they had followed a dumping truck from the Raybestos factory to the city dump , where the company had permission to dump non-toxic waste . |
| 23 | They surrendered at Rome airport on Aug. 30 after receiving assurances they would not be deported to Ethiopia , where they claimed that they had suffered political persecution . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , 12 members of the Cabinet did visit the shrine on Aug. 15 ( and at least three others had visited it earlier in the month ) , although most claimed that they had done so in a private capacity . |
| 25 | Some heads of department claimed that they had done a lot of thinking about policies and practices in anticipation of the appraisal . |
| 26 | The point was , however , that Cumberbatch and Bates had named a number of video-nasties that did not in fact exist , and yet the children claimed that they had seen them . |
| 27 | In mid-October a breakthrough seemed imminent after senior trade officials from Canada , the EC , Japan and the USA , meeting in Ontario on Oct. 17-18 , claimed that they had made substantial progress in resolving the deadlock ( responsible for the suspension of an earlier round of talks between US and EC officials in Brussels on Oct. 11-12 ) . |
| 28 | The inspectors claimed that they had discovered " essential elements " for manufacturing enriched uranium . |
| 29 | In January 1982 , Malawi Radio announced that the Chirwas had been arrested with their son on Christmas Eve , and claimed that they had slipped back into the country to incite opposition to Banda 's Government . |
| 30 | Fleischmann and Pons claimed that they had produced net power output from this approach at levels that would potentially solve the world 's energy needs . |