Example sentences of "claim [verb] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many also claimed to have seen a banana-shaped object in the sky , and a characteristic illuminated sign . ’ |
| 2 | At 85 , Swanton can claim to have seen it all , including those dire days in the mid-6o 's when the county game was in such a mess . |
| 3 | What Hill had found was that children would claim to have seen video-nasties , rather than that they had actually seen them . |
| 4 | And I can claim to have seen the film years before its TV appearance . |
| 5 | Almost nothing has been heard of Ben since he went went missing on Kos , although a British couple claimed to have seen him in August on the island of Lesbos . |
| 6 | Indeed , one Wettin of Reichnau , a visionary monk , claimed to have seen Charles in Purgatory , where the purifying flames burned away his lust in preparation for his entry into Heaven . |
| 7 | John Ryan MP claimed to have seen a policeman remove a woman 's glasses and then strike her on the head ; she had appeared , to him , to be over sixty years of age and a bystander . |
| 8 | Within the tomb Mr Harris claimed to have seen uncovered , a human skeleton , a bronze sphere , a bronze sword , a bronze urn and a goblet ‘ … of peculiar workmanship quite distinct from Saxon , Roman or Phoenician manufacture , shaped like a modern breakfast cup ’ . |
| 9 | In the week before the stranding several people , mainly fishermen , claimed to have seen whales entering the Wash , perhaps in pursuit of the fish that make up the bulk of their diet . |
| 10 | A loop was thought to be possible and there were those who claimed to have seen one . |
| 11 | Fleischmann and Pons were seeing 25 per cent unaccounted-for heat sometimes and had not yet more than the hope of proving that there were neutrons proving fusion ; Jones claimed to have seen a few neutrons at levels which , while interesting for science and understanding aspects of the Earth , bore no large scale practical benefits — what use is a billionth of a watt ? |
| 12 | Altogether the Johnson Administration claimed to have seen 226 out of 252 pieces of major legislation through Congress in its four years . |
| 13 | For those who claimed to have seen or heard it all before , racism was always the same old story . |
| 14 | Some people claimed to have seen the sun turn in the sky , in the same way as it had when the miracle occurred so many years before . |
| 15 | An eye-witness claimed to have seen a yellow Datsun in the area at the relevant time , and McWhirter was painstakingly investigating all of the local Datsun-owners . |
| 16 | Victorine and the others were interested solely in what she claimed to have seen . |
| 17 | Mattox 's campaign presented her silence on this subject as an expression of guilt , although the drugs issue backfired on him in the final days of the campaign when witnesses claimed to have seen him smoking marijuana in the early 1970s , a claim which he vehemently denied . |
| 18 | Clark claimed to have seen little damage to military targets but maintained that residential areas and hospitals and other civilian facilities had been severely attacked , resulting in heavy civilian casualties . |
| 19 | Sick also suggested that several people claimed to have seen Bush at the Paris meeting , although he admitted that he was not yet convinced of the veracity of this aspect of the affair . |
| 20 | Those who claimed to have seen it were then asked what they could recall of its contents , and to what uses it had been put . |
| 21 | It is with the perceptions of those teachers who claimed to have seen the booklet that this part is concerned . |
| 22 | The common earthworm can be anything from four inches to a foot long , and many people claim to have seen worms 20 inches long , but that may be stretching a point . |
| 23 | This has the real hard stuff — cattle mutilations performed by aliens ( apparently , ‘ for reasons we do n't yet understand ’ , they 're also interested in cows ' bottoms ) , UFOs and AIDS , stories about he ‘ men in black ’ , CIA men from space , who drive brand new Fifties ' cars , wear trousers that do n't crease and harass people who claim to have seen UFOs . |
| 24 | Three years after its publication , less than half of Solihull 's secondary school teachers claim to have seen the booklet , and a much smaller proportion claim to have read it all , or to recall it at all well . |
| 25 | I claim to have seen this conflict at closer range than anyone . |
| 26 | Mr Kinnock arrived in the Tory-held marginal seat of Hyndburn to be greeted by the Labour candidate , Mr Greg Pope , and a local joke at the expense of the former MP , Mr Ken Hargreaves , who courted the headlines last year after claiming to have seen a vision during a visit to the religious shrine at Medugorje in Yugoslavia . |
| 27 | They achieved a figure of 68 per cent of the children claiming to have seen these films . |
| 28 | Just over half of the teachers claiming to have seen the booklet said they had used it for in-service training in their school . |
| 29 | Then one day one of my inspectors , a man called Dario Carella , phoned in claiming to have seen one of the suspected terrorists . |
| 30 | Some people argue that everyone who claims to have seen or to have photographed this animal has been either drunk , deceived by a log or interested in promoting the Scottish tourist industry . |