Sentence examples for professed to have from inspiring English sources

She wrote vividly about nursing the injured from the Battle of Britain, delivering babies while bombs fell and was able to evoke such enthusiasm for nursing in her books that in later years she often received letters from readers who professed to have taken up the profession because of the influence of her writing.

Mr. Garment professed to have no lasting scars from Watergate.

Pemberton professed to have thought it was someone crying wolf.

It professed to have collected the slang of 1915.

Timbaland professed to have a simple, unassailable philosophy.

He also professed to have no regrets for a lifetime of heavy smoking and drinking.

Unabashed by the reaction to his latest remarks, Mr Mori professed to have nothing to feel sorry about.

In the prologue to his now-iconic "Two Solitudes," Hugh MacLennan professed to have written "a novel of Canada".

The secretary professed to have formed no view on the Boykin matter because he had not heard the general's remarks.

But many people professed to have little interest in the impending storm, saying they were just doing their regular shopping.

Although Cain professed to have no idea about the meaning of "the postman" in his title, I believe he is being unnecessarily difficult.