Example sentences of "claimed [pers pn] be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But an English ex-social worker has come forward after seeing her picture in TODAY and claimed she is a youngster he once counselled . |
| 2 | The first statement issued by COPREFA , the armed forces press office , declared that she had been killed in combat and claimed she was a guerrilla combatant who operated under the name of Comandante Lucia . |
| 3 | FURIOUS Millwall claimed they were the victims of a controversial penalty decision yesterday . |
| 4 | A GROUP of Llandudno Junction residents yesterday claimed they were the ‘ forgotten people ’ as they struggled to clean up their homes . |
| 5 | THE wayward Marquess of Blandford last night claimed it was a lost love which led him into drug addiction . |
| 6 | He claimed it was a mix-up . |
| 7 | ‘ They claimed it was a pet , so we did n't confiscate it . ’ |
| 8 | He claimed it was the fabled treaure , buried in 1945 , of the Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita . |
| 9 | Indeed , the man for whom the Palazzo was built claimed it was the most beautiful house in Christendom . |
| 10 | He also claimed it was the largest open system to be employed at a statistic office in Europe , and announced that the company planned to use it as a reference site for national accounting offices in both East and Western Europe . |
| 11 | He also claimed it was the largest open system to be employed at a statistic office in Europe , and announced that the company planned to use it as a reference site for national accounting offices in both East and Western Europe . |
| 12 | He ate pork chops in tomato sauce with us that evening , and claimed it was the first good meal he had had in six months . |
| 13 | The Board 's General Manager Tom Frawley said today that the decision to close the Shantallow home had been a difficult one , but claimed it was the only possible course of action ‘ in light of the increase over the last few years in the level of nursing home accommodation and the reduced demand for residential accommodation which has come about as a result of improvements in housing in general and the development of sheltered accommodation and other community alternatives . ’ |
| 14 | On July 10th the Guardian reported the death of 80 sheep ( no not Tories ) in an Army mortar attack … they claimed it was an accident . |
| 15 | When confronted with the pollution , G. says the manager claimed it was an accident , that a vat had tipped over accidentally and the ice cream had disappeared down a drain . |
| 16 | The organisation claimed he was a Catholic who had been involved with the Army , the Royal Ulster Constabulary and loyalist terrorists . |
| 17 | Men claimed he was a shameless womaniser , but to women he was perfect , as if Wotan had dropped a bucket of pure sex from Valhalla and it had come to rest inside the muscled , blond Adonis . |
| 18 | On one occasion we bought two from a toothless ancient , whose family claimed he was a hundred and twenty years old and boasted that he had killed a hundred and forty men in his day . |
| 19 | THE IRA murdered a man it said was one of its former members yesterday and claimed he was a police informer . |
| 20 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 21 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 22 | And he claimed he was the victim of a ‘ mystery ’ vendetta . |