Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the plane , which had armrests a foot wide , made in a plastic that looked like jellied gold lamé , he pretended suddenly to have remembered something and drew a rumpled piece of paper out of his wallet . |
| 2 | Grigoriev was watching avidly , and Rostov pretended not to have understood the remark . |
| 3 | Patrice pretended not to have heard . |
| 4 | He pretended not to have read the piece . |
| 5 | From April 1st anyone found not to have followed guidelines on making VAT claims and payments will be liable to a penalty that could cost them and extra 30% plus interest on any unpaid tax . |
| 6 | He was able to get away for a two week holiday in Switzerland at the end of August , where he relaxed and swam in Lake Geneva : it was the one European country which he found not to have changed out of all recognition , and he took an annual holiday there . |
| 7 | As Raynor ( 1969 , Chapter 2 ) argues , the ‘ middle class ’ was never homogeneous ( in particular it has never been equivalent to Marx 's ‘ bourgeoisie ’ ) , but nonetheless its degree of heterogeneity has been greatly increased over the post-war years , and the shift in the distribution of social labour analysed above has accelerated this process . |
| 8 | At the same time , only 11 boards ( 8 CSE and 3 GCE ) reported ever having received requests for information from employers . |
| 9 | In the study by Holly et al 18% of female cases and 14% of controls reported ever having had anal intercourse . |
| 10 | Interestingly , in the survey referred to earlier twice as many Americans as Japanese reported ever having dreamed of being inappropriately dressed , or being nude . |
| 11 | He had a point there , his reluctant listener admitted , Rose probably had kept a key . |
| 12 | Some of the material used here has appeared in print before , and I am grateful to the editors of the American Philosophical Quarterly and of Analysis for permission to reprint it . |
| 13 | The quantum theory created then has proved adequate for all that has so far followed it . |
| 14 | I used sometimes to have to make an effort to be cheerful , but I have never had to restrain myself from bursting into violence and anger … |
| 15 | The methods he used then had altered little over the years , but he was aware change was in the air . |
| 16 | Paragraph three point seven describe in some detail with a figure of five hundred and fifty thousand pounds will become available in nine nineteen ninety three ninety four , when the rules change on the financing of structural maintenance on Principal Road , this sum would be enough to cover the two hundred and thirty thousand pound short that we mentioned previously has to cover the loan charges to sustain the same level of capital programme on schemes not aided by transport supplementary branch in nineteen ninety three four , as is currently being spent in this year . |
| 17 | A special foot-pump used twelve hours a day saved the situation , and Rose subsequently had to use the pump for at least an hour a day to prevent a recurrence of the problem . |
| 18 | Interlocking would have prevented the signalman putting the signals for the express at ‘ CLEAR ’ yet it is strange that although both footplatemen on the express admitted not having seen the home signal on the approach to Charfield both men were equally emphatic that they had seen the proceeding distant signal and they said it was showing a green light and in the clear position . |
| 19 | ‘ He 'd better have beaten me . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Oh , Doctor , ’ threatened Fakrid , ‘ you 'd better have come up with something . |
| 21 | " Careful , Stephen , " they both seemed endlessly to have said . |
| 22 | His spirits seemed suddenly to have cleared . |
| 23 | A while ago she had felt hungry ; now her appetite seemed suddenly to have faded . |
| 24 | He seemed suddenly to have lost interest . |
| 25 | The relaxed air which had reigned in the warm little living room of Rose Cottage seemed suddenly to have evaporated . |
| 26 | Harry had only to reach out his hand to restrain him , but movement seemed suddenly to have deserted him . |
| 27 | All the still places in her life seemed suddenly to have shifted dramatically . |
| 28 | But then money , or something , seemed suddenly to have brought Gerald Seymour-Strachey from the hazy background to the centre of the picture . |
| 29 | Beside her , however , Alan seemed suddenly to have sunk back into grim-faced absorption . |
| 30 | Curiously though , in Cyprus finding water is the paramount geological task : the growth of agriculture and hotel development added together have helped to drain the aquifers . |