Example sentences of "claimed to have [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been suggested that he has claimed to have absorbed the banned substance through eating meat but one observer claimed cryptically yesterday : ‘ He would have to eat three cows a day for that to be the case . ’ |
| 2 | The nationalization of the banking system by President José López Portillo on Sept. 1 , 1982 [ see p. 32071 ] , was claimed to have precipitated the devaluation of the official currency , the peso , and to have contributed to high inflation and the flight of capital . |
| 3 | One of Shaughnessy 's sources , with close links to Israeli intelligence , actually claimed to have heard the tapes of these telephone intercepts , and another , well-connected with the US intelligence community , confirmed not only that the Iranian Embassy 's calls had been monitored at that time but also the substance of the Lovejoy — Niknam conversations . |
| 4 | Although we were unaware of the wartime centrifugal launcher proposals , we have never claimed to have invented the idea . |
| 5 | The other monks all claimed to have shared the same experience . |
| 6 | Various people have claimed to have had the idea for the scene in Curtiz' Casablanca where the patriots drown a German song with ‘ La Marseillaise ’ , but here , four years earlier , good-guy ex-rebels drown out ‘ The Union Forever ’ with ‘ Dixie ’ in exactly the same way . |
| 7 | It is too early yet to say how useful the discourse approach will be , but even if it achieves nothing else , it can at least be claimed to have shown the inadequacy of attempting to analyse the function of intonation on the basis of isolated sentences or tone-units , removed from their linguistic and situational context . |