Example sentences of "[pers pn] claim that [noun] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a few months before , Céline had had a baby girl , Adèle , and she claimed that Adèle was my child . |
| 2 | She claims that Meryl was sitting on that window seat last night , wearing just her nightclothes . |
| 3 | After less than a month with Tito 's partisans , Brig Fitzroy MacLean was brought out to write the ‘ blockbuster ’ report in which he claimed that Tito was the most important force , holding down 14 German divisions . |
| 4 | He claimed that customers were appalled by the players ' language and that when he asked for order they threatened to punch out his lights . |
| 5 | He claimed that Lewis was the only person in Oxford whom he really saw , but this was the reverse of the truth . |
| 6 | He claimed that complaints were up but nobody ever thought of complaining when the Labour party was in power because there was not a proper procedure , and in many cases the service was so bad that people did not bother . |
| 7 | In his first interview with American television , President Saddam Hussein told C B S News that he did n't want war with the west , but he claimed that God was on his side and said that Iraq would come out victorious in any conflict . |
| 8 | He claimed that Derrida was in error in his claim that throughout the history of Western philosophy speech had been privileged above writing . |
| 9 | It claimed that bull-running was and warned that |