Example sentences of "[pers pn] claim [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I claimed no personal credit for that , since , like most girls , I could always tell when I had lit a spark in a man at sight , and vice versa . |
| 2 | There are many classifications of theories of the global system and I claim no great privilege for the classification adopted here . |
| 3 | He claimed a new report on the future of police funding had been suppressed because Mr Clarke did not like its findings . |
| 4 | And he claimed an alleged member of the notorious Shankill butcher gang was also employed by the same company in Belfast . |
| 5 | Having raised his standard at the very nadir of France 's fortunes , when to do so seemed a hopeless and almost irrational gesture , he claimed the high ground of principle for himself . |
| 6 | It was no accident that Baldwin VII of Flanders moved to a new repressive interpretation of comital justice at just the same time as he claimed the superior advocacy over all ecclesiastical houses in Flanders . |
| 7 | He claims a new form of scallop farming , due to begin soon in Loch Crinan in Argyll , extends the principle of landlordism into the sea and must be opposed . |
| 8 | He claims a simple quality for his companions in these crazy adventures , and in the Bedu whom he admires most of all . |