"she was claiming" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to show that someone is making a statement or assertion, or stating something as fact. Here is an example: She was claiming to have witnessed the robbery, but no one else saw anything.
Is this your father?" She was claiming our daughter as part of the black community.
At the time, she was claiming Lords subsistence of £165.50 a night.
We stuck a blue plaque on Jacqui Smith's sister's house, which she was claiming as her main residence (thanks, Google Street View).
She was claiming Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and received Disability Living Allowance (DLA) under the special rules for someone who was medically assessed as terminally ill.
Whereas Meriden Conservative MP Caroline Spelman – now a cabinet minister – appeared in the Daily Telegraph's "saints list" because of her relative low "second homes" expenses claims, I was able to exclusively report to her constituents that she was claiming around £10,000 a year just for council tax, utility bills and cleaning for her country mansion.
"I could not understand one word this woman said, and she was claiming kids had hearing deficits," says Rosenstock.
I never cut back her feed or water before she raced, and she ran two places for me before she was claimed away for 21,000 euros two months later.
She was claimed by Mitra-Varuna, but she lived with Manu and together they initiated the race of Manu.
She is claiming £721.4m plus costs.
"What exactly is this foreign experience that she's claiming?
This album, though, is the first time she's claiming the sound she has helped shape as her own.
