Example sentences of "he claim have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exercise led to a bizarre episode in 1967 , when the mayor of Londonderry , Councillor Albert Anderson , produced a letter which he claimed had come from the working committee . |
| 2 | A PUBLIC schoolboy who killed a fellow pupil he claimed had raped his girlfriend , was freed by the Appeal Court yesterday . |
| 3 | Virgin , he claimed had been precipitated into a compromise with Sting largely because their key witness was unreliable . |
| 4 | It would give him pleasure to make jokes that were n't funny while he was dressed up in the wedding-dress of a woman he claimed had been murdered also . |
| 5 | Addressing a news conference in Baghdad on Feb. 11 , Yassir Arafat , the PLO Chairman , denied Palestinian involvement in the bus attack , which he claimed had been carried out by extremists , " whatever their form , colour or nationality " . |
| 6 | The charges arose from a sexual encounter between Smith and Patricia Bowman in March 1991 [ see p. 38139 ] , which he claimed had been based upon mutual consent . |
| 7 | He left the ruling Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino ( LDP — Democratic Filipino Struggle Party ) after a straw poll on Nov. 30 — which he claimed had been rigged — had chosen Ramon Mitra , the Speaker of the House of Representatives , as the LDP presidential candidate . |
| 8 | On Dec. 4 , 1991 , Valverde had given to the parliamentary commission on industry a detailed exposition of Renfe 's role in the affair , which he claimed had been merely to execute plans made by the Transport Ministry and the Autonomous Community ( local council ) of Madrid . |
| 9 | He said the current system which he claimed had prevented Middlesbrough council from building a single home for three years was ‘ a recipe for countless cases of personal misery . ’ |
| 10 | Boyle showed the jury a scar which he claimed had been caused by the crowbar . |
| 11 | Dodman offered to give evidence against another man whom he claimed had carried out the burglaries , but he was unable to do so because of a mental condition and the charges against the other man were dropped . |
| 12 | Dodman had offered to give evidence against another man whom he claimed had carried out the burglaries , but he was unable to do so because of a mental condition and the charges against the other man were dropped . |
| 13 | A FORMER public schoolboy convicted of murdering a fellow pupil he claimed had raped his girlfriend was freed by the Appeal Court yesterday when his conviction was reduced to manslaughter through provocation . |
| 14 | Andrew Richens was 17 when he stabbed William Choi , who he claimed had boasted of having sex with his girlfriend and had taunted him by saying she had probably never had a real man before . |
| 15 | He claimed to have links with Gadhafi , and inside knowledge about Libyan and Syrian backing for terrorists . |
| 16 | He claimed to have heard it from the lips of Raisa , and swore its truth . |
| 17 | He claimed to have been painting ; he also had trousers soaked in red lead . |
| 18 | Though he claimed to have restored the Republic after thirteen years of civil war that lasted from the murder of Julius Caesar in 44 BC to the Battle of Actium in 31 , he was in fact sole ruler and emperor of Rome and its conquered territories . |
| 19 | On being dug out he claimed to have spent , ‘ … the longest night I have ever passed ’ . |
| 20 | We may now consider a paper of Stoyanov ( 1979 ) in which he claimed to have obtained a solution without singularities . |
| 21 | The writer Frank Harris , best known for My Life and Loves , insured his card index of the 2,000 women he claimed to have seduced with Lloyd 's . |
| 22 | He said that he had a video which he would bring round , but when he arrived he claimed to have lost it and still did n't provide a written description , so I would n't tell him where the dogs were . |
| 23 | In the 1970s a prisoner from one of the labour camps had assembled a group of volunteers , including experts on dowsing , to investigate what he claimed to have located — Ivan the Terrible 's library . |
| 24 | In two respective court cases , Stamford was recognised as the owner of the huge work , and Hoelzer was guaranteed payment for restoration he claimed to have done . |
| 25 | Maradona scored against England in 1986 , accused of handling the ball he claimed to have had a little help from high places ( see remote control and questionable decisions ) . |
| 26 | In February 1950 , in a speech at Wheeling in West Virginia , he claimed to have in his possession a list of 205 Communists employed in the State Department . |
| 27 | And yet to the world at large he claimed to have conducted a most detailed investigation into the whole matter , sufficient to enable him to arrive at an informed judgement that British policy remained correct . |
| 28 | He was apprenticed about 1602 to the London engraver and instrument-maker Charles Whitwell , with whom he claimed to have served nine years by the time of Whitwell 's death in 1611 . |
| 29 | He claimed to have produced twenty million prints by the end of his career . |
| 30 | But most of his time was now absorbed by his various inventions , which included a miniature camera , a two-sided stove , and a gramophone ; he claimed to have taken out 500 patents . |