Example sentences of "claim [to-vb] have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Men also claimed to have had four times more sexual partners in their lives than women — 12.1 versus 3.2. — Reuter |
| 2 | Men also claimed to have had four times more sexual partners in their lives than women — 12.1 versus 3.2. — Reuter |
| 3 | Mind , I can always claim to have had running water at Low Birk Hatt but it did happen to be a stream some way down the meadow . |
| 4 | The owner claimed to have had reasonable grounds to believe the truth of his misrepresentation because the Lloyd 's Register had ( in a rare mistake ) wrongly stated the payload as 1,800 tons . |
| 5 | Tom Driberg claimed to have had oral sex with which former Labour minister ? |
| 6 | The role of the US embassy was also heavily criticized for withholding the evidence of at least one US military advisor who claimed to have had prior knowledge of the plan to kill the priests . |
| 7 | For those who claimed to have had this experience , the exemplary manner in which they met their death was the ultimate proof they were indeed saved . |
| 8 | If you prefer an alternative approach , some aromatherapists and reflexologists claim to have had good results . |
| 9 | Using this model Hackman and Oldham claim to have had some success in redesigning jobs to give the outcomes they predict . |
| 10 | Recent researchers , such as H.L. Miles ( 1983 ) , claim to have had more luck but even then , giving them the benefit of every doubt , ‘ there remains a large gap between the signing of these trained apes and the speech of children who have vocabularies of approximately the same size ’ ( Griffin 1984 : 199 ) . |
| 11 | As , chairman of Dundas & wilson who claims to have had little problem in providing other specialist services to clients , small and large , the exercise becomes on of ‘ not cross-selling but cross-advising ’ . |
| 12 | There is , then , no reason to believe Freemantle when she claims to have had little interest in poetry . |