Example sentences of "[vb past] have [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | In later years , when explaining how he got to Cape Town , John always mentioned having appeared in one or two small parts when the ballet from the Cape came to Johannesburg . |
| 2 | Wingti vowed , if elected , to initiate a thorough investigation of all charges and to prosecute and imprison all senior officials found to have engaged in corrupt practices . |
| 3 | ‘ I just could n't consider playing tennis professionally if I 'd had to stay in Ireland . ’ |
| 4 | Scar tissue all right ; a birthmark she 'd had removed in early teens in case it turned malignant . |
| 5 | On Oct. 11 five Polish nationals living in Frankfurt and Bochum were arrested when police uncovered consignments of radio-active caesium and strontium believed to have originated in the former Soviet Union . |
| 6 | ‘ A major pile-up on the E 35 near Freiburg … reported eight cars involved … heavy casualties … also reported a large refrigerated truck driving north along the southbound lane caused the latest holocaust … the truck driver believed to have died in the pile-up … more details in our next news bulletin … |
| 7 | It seemed to have swollen in her chest , huge and hot , and its painful drumming shook her frail body as if to burst it apart . |
| 8 | With a shock Juliet realised that her aspirations there seemed to have faded in the light of her latest discovery . |
| 9 | He reached for his handkerchief and dabbed his forehead again — a cold , clammy sweat that only seemed to have surfaced in the last half an hour . |
| 10 | The date , and the exiled place of composition of its authors , suggests tellingly that the situation with which it attempts to deal is the phenomenon of fascism which seemed to have stopped in its tracks the long march of the progress of reason , and its liberating enlightenment ideals , of which Marxism was the fullest political development . |
| 11 | Even her heart seemed to have stopped in mid-beat in her breast . |
| 12 | Charles Dickens seemed to have stayed in a remarkable number of houses in Broadstairs , the Lionisers were beginning to fed , looking at their itinerary on Thursday morning . |
| 13 | The bungalow again seemed to have grown in the moonlight , and was now a Moorish temple , where the infidel foe lurked . |
| 14 | When the punch had cooled he took it out to the garden shed , within easy reach of Tibbles who , since her dose of chicken thallium , seemed to have improved in every conceivable way , and went upstairs to the bedroom . |
| 15 | The whole business seemed to have shrunk in importance to the size of a peanut anyway . |
| 16 | All the green of Undersea seemed to have fused in that clearest of emeralds ; it was as different from the drifting atmosphere as , in Ruth 's own world , water from air . |
| 17 | Her stomach seemed to have disappeared in a warm , melting whirlpool of longing . |
| 18 | Something in the atmosphere of the room seemed to have changed in the course of the last few moments , and Liston could n't say for certain what it was . |
| 19 | The reliable rhythm of her pulse seemed to have changed in some odd and basic way . |
| 20 | At this point I had one of those Proustian flashbacks about just such a place which I seemed to have known in childhood . |
| 21 | It has asserted again and again that it will not adopt Unix SVR4 outright , and even seemed to have thrown in its lot with the Open Software Foundation when the Advanced Computing Environment launched its initiative last year . |
| 22 | Far from leaping from his chair and seizing Pearce by the throat , a curious fatigue seemed to have settled in his bones . |
| 23 | The heating was on inside the car but it did little to drive out the chill that seemed to have settled in her bones . |
| 24 | Terry seemed to have settled in easily to Army life , but although Joe made no complaints it was clear that he missed the family . |
| 25 | The Repubblichini seemed to have settled in well in Fontanellato . |
| 26 | She sensed trouble in this girl , who seemed to have taken in the entire community below in Knockglen . |
| 27 | Mrs Vi MacNamara , mother of Mrs Arnold , said the couple seemed to have left in a hurry . |
| 28 | It seemed to have happened in a rush , just recently ; Ruth still thought of her as the upright , vigorous Gran of her childhood . |
| 29 | Everything seemed to have happened in excruciatingly slow motion , yet common sense said the entire incident could only have lasted seconds . |
| 30 | The expulsion of the ICRC delegates therefore appeared to be linked to the run-up to the general election due on April 10 , as conservatives maintained that the government exerted insufficient pressure on the ICRC for the return of some 5,000 Iranian prisoners who some believed had survived in Iraq : the ICRC had been unable to locate prisoners in these numbers , while it was supervising the return of some 20,000 prisoners from Iran to Iraq . |