Example sentences of "[pers pn] claim [to-vb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I claim to have seen this conflict at closer range than anyone . |
| 2 | They came in all shapes and sizes ; and all of them claimed to have become permanent partners . |
| 3 | There is , then , no reason to believe Freemantle when she claims to have had little interest in poetry . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Airtours will not say how much it has paid for the leases , though it claims to have secured good terms because of the uncertain travel market . |
| 6 | It claims to have completed 220 ports in 10 years . |
| 7 | Married to Princess Olga Romanoff , a great niece of the last Czar , he claims to have survived three attempts on his life . |
| 8 | Now he claims to have abandoned this principle , apparently for no other reason than the pursuit of electoral palatability . |