Example sentences of "claimed that he [vb past] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dudayev claimed that he had received expressions of support from the leaders of Georgia and Azerbaijan , and also from the largely Moslem autonomous republics of Tartaria and Dagestan . |
| 2 | But he took care to publish them as ‘ Sine nomine ’ or ‘ Missa primi toni ’ and when he issued his Second Book of Masses ( Rome , 1567 ) he claimed that he had composed ‘ music of a new order in accordance with the views of the most serious and religious-minded persons in high places ’ . |
| 3 | After his death she therefore claimed that he had made her a donatio mortis causa of the house by this constructive delivery of the title deeds . |
| 4 | On being sued by the plaintiffs for breach of the implied duty of confidentiality , the defendant claimed that he had made all his calculations in designing the heater from information which had been published in a readily obtainable leaflet . |
| 5 | They claimed that he had made and taken away copies or had memorised extracts from a book of secret formulae . |
| 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 | In a letter sent to the Janata Dal president , S. R. Bommai , and the National Front chair , N. T. Rama Rao , Singh claimed that he had lost the trust of the people as a result of " the developments during the last two days . " |
| 8 | I went to the er conference that we had at Stokewatchford , which together with er , John , er my Vice Chairman er on Europe , the other week , and there is so much mythology , er , that has been dispensed by people who are half-hearted towards Europe or got a vested interest in no has not been committed to Europe , and and they use this , and in fact the classic example was , that , one of our own Lincolnshire M P's claimed that he had saved , Lincolnshire 's from the ravages of Europe . |
| 9 | Outside the court , Pearlberg revealed that Crawford was the actor but claimed that he had invested only 60,000 . |
| 10 | Montaigne claimed that he had obtained his information by careful interrogation of a " plain simple fellow " who had lived for more than ten years in the French Huguenot colony which had been established around 1 540 close to modern Rio de Janeiro . |
| 11 | When pressed upon the issue , Hawke admitted the deal , but claimed that he had withdrawn from the arrangement in December 1990 after Keating had made " treacherous " remarks to the press about his leadership . |
| 12 | At the appeal , Patricia Mansell — who claimed that he had promised to marry her — said , ‘ When I became pregnant , his attitude towards me changed . |
| 13 | In a secret interview before his capture Abenina claimed that he had brought together the forces of Gregorio " Gringo " Honasan , the officer cashiered for his part in an earlier coup attempt in 1987 , and groups led by a Marcos loyalist , Brig. -Gen . |
| 14 | Indeed , Rous claimed that he had petitioned Parliament in 1459 asking for legislation on enclosures , and although no such petition is preserved , there is one from as early as 1414 from the village of Chesterton in Cambridgeshire referring to depopulation there ( 19 , pp.276–7 ; 58 , pp.81–2 , 102–3 , 148 ) . |
| 15 | James Kilpatrick claimed that he had agreed to sell his half-share for £2,000 and that nothing less would have enticed him to part with his interest in the horse . |
| 16 | He had called it " unconstitutional " only on Aug. 21 , and claimed that he had resigned and had not been dismissed . |
| 17 | The authorities denied that his arrest in 1987 was solely because he had met pro-North Korean people in Japan and claimed that he had acted on North Korean orders to collect documents on South Korean opposition groups , and to infiltrate dissent groups in order to create social unrest . |
| 18 | The accused claimed that he had produced the gun to try to hold Robert at bay and then shot him when he advanced on him with a hunting knife . |
| 19 | Boesky claimed that he had put £40,000,000 into the Guinness share support scheme ; when Guinness shares subsequently slumped , he claimed that the company had compensated him by agreeing to invest $100,000,000 in his arbitrage investment fund . |
| 20 | Earlier , in November 1990 , NLD representative Maung Ko had died in military custody ; the authorities claimed that he had committed suicide , but his relatives insisted that he had been tortured to death . |
| 21 | In the fruit bazaar in Khorramshahr , an Iraqi Shia claimed that he had fought in Basra the previous night . |
| 22 | UK Prime Minister John Major , whose critics claimed that he had known of fraud within BCCI when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1990 , announced on July 22 that Lord Justice Bingham would head an inquiry into the BCCI affair . |