Example sentences of "[vb infin] have [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All at once the range of plants we can grow has extended to include many of the magically evocative creatures that we encounter on our annual run for the sun . |
| 2 | Magistrates in Bootle heard that library staff had attempted to retrieve some books for more than a year . |
| 3 | ( Ramond 's still very readable Voyage dans les Pyrénées was published in the unpropitious year of 1789 , but it did well and was translated into English in 1813 , so it could claim to have helped to draw English travellers to these unknown mountains . ) |
| 4 | One matter which I should like to have seen included would almost certainly have merited parliamentary discussion before the inevitable dissolution of this Parliament , which will make this a short Session . |
| 5 | Daisy would so like to have got tarted up , but at least her hair was newly washed that morning and her teeth were clean . |
| 6 | ‘ I would like to have continued producing cars to win Irish rallies but apart from Bertie Fisher too many people wanted a professional job at an amateur price , ’ he says . |
| 7 | What all the wise promised has not happened , and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass . |
| 8 | Where after they 've been born , they might have had delayed breathing , not breathed immediately , so that type of baby might be at risk . |
| 9 | The rule for raising before velars , however , is strong and active and does not seem to have begun to recede lexically : in word-list style ( which is usually considered to be formal ) it persists much more strongly than post-velar raising ; neologisms undergo the rule , and it affects spelling ( see the discussion of ‘ occasional spellings ’ below ) . |
| 10 | According to Lord Elphinstone , the candidacy of Buchanan of Aucheneen was being pressed by Dundas of Lethem , one of Montrose 's friends , a gentleman who does not seem to have hesitated to make use of the duke 's name in the course of his canvass for Aucheneen . |
| 11 | The other points to note on the Regulations are : ( i ) that advantage can not be taken of the section if a provision , ‘ however expressed , ’ of the company 's memorandum or articles requires copies of the full accounts to be sent to members or which prohibits the sending of summary financial statements ( ii ) that provisions , similar to those in relation to the full accounts , apply to approval by , and signature on behalf of , the directors of the summary , and ( iii ) that , up to the end of 1991 , most listed companies do not seem to have opted to adopt the innovation . |
| 12 | But he does not seem to have tried to give a description of the Roman system of m unicipia and coloniae , Latin allies and other confederates . |
| 13 | The degree of selective pressure towards co-operation group awareness , and identification was so strong , and the period over which it operated was so extended ( at least three million years , and probably even longer ) , that it can hardly fail to have become embedded to some measure in our genetic makeup ( 1977 : 209 , emphasis ours ) . |
| 14 | Whatever pangs of grief and guilt and shame Emilia might suffer had remained locked inside her , an unapproachable wound . |