Example sentences of "[pers pn] to have done " in BNC.
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| 1 | What , then , ought they to have done ? |
| 2 | The intention had been to brand her as a ‘ hoarder ’ as well as the ‘ milk snatcher ’ , but most of us thought this seemed an eminently sensible thing for her to have done . |
| 3 | It is my belief that even without this tragic news , Lord Darlington would have set upon the course he took ; his desire to see an end to injustice and suffering was too deeply ingrained in his nature for him to have done otherwise . |
| 4 | No defence was provided for circumstances in which a reasonable person had made a conscious and informed choice to read , see or hear the work in question , provided only that some other reasonable person found it ‘ grossly offensive ’ for him to have done so . |
| 5 | For him to have done this he would have had to deny the teaching of the Old Testament . |
| 6 | Now when that acid is fresh and has n't been used before two minutes is usually quite enough for it to have done the job it 's supposed to do . |