Example sentences of "he [verb] to have done " in BNC.
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| 1 | On being told by the manager to check with the bank , he pretended to have done so and assured the manager that the cheque was ‘ as good as cash , ’ whereupon the manager authorised the transaction . |
| 2 | Besides cooking , he seemed to have done most things , course after course . |
| 3 | In two respective court cases , Stamford was recognised as the owner of the huge work , and Hoelzer was guaranteed payment for restoration he claimed to have done . |
| 4 | ‘ He could have gone back later and done all the things he claimed to have done … ’ |
| 5 | He was certainly performing this service in 1729 , towards the end of Campbell 's life , drawing out designs for works at Studley Royal , Yorkshire , and he appears to have done so previously . |
| 6 | Burton started a Welsh male voice choir — ‘ although at one time there were only two Welshmen in the camp ’ — and at one stage , up at Docking in Norfolk , he seems to have done everything but declare the place an independent colony . |
| 7 | Although it was the king , not the chief lord of the fee , who issued the licences , he seems to have done so from the start — and certainly after 1292 — only with the assent of the chief lords . |
| 8 | ‘ He seems to have done a runner . |
| 9 | Though considered by one observer to have been a bore , he seems to have done valuable service on a number of committees , many of them dealing with bills concerning arms and defences . |
| 10 | Artemidorus wrote before Posidonius , who occasionally disagreed with him : he must have travelled about 100 B.C. He seems to have done particularly useful work on the geography of Spain where he had the advantage of a century of Roman administration . |
| 11 | He might sit it out ten minutes just to annoy , but not the time it took him to fidget all round the place as he seems to have done . |
| 12 | I wonder if you feel that even if there was a deal , the British government , the Foreign Office , represented as they were , so admirably really , by Sir Edward Heath , he seems to have done a very good job , I wonder if he had to work very hard , or do you think perhaps , anybody could carry that out ? |