Example sentences of "he [vb past] to have [vb pp] " 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 | Indeed , it did n't seem quite impossible even to me , as he seemed to have reached a kind of plateau — no better but certainly no worse , free of pain and very happy — often informing me that he was getting stronger every day . |
| 3 | In fact , he identifies two theoretical questions to which he seemed to have assumed answers in his earlier paper : ( 1 ) Why do teachers change , or fail to change ? ( 2 ) How do teachers learn ? |
| 4 | Dressed casually , he seemed to have assumed the personality of someone altogether warmer and more approachable , even human . |
| 5 | With his low-crowned hat and antiquated clerical costume , his broad scholarship and unenthusiastic divinity , his uncompromising insistence on ancient rights ( especially in chapter ) , his belief that land and ‘ the funds ’ were the only proper investment for the college and industrial shares a new form of the South Sea Bubble , he seemed to have stepped out of the eighteenth century . |
| 6 | He seemed to have kicked his heroin addiction and given up his unorthodox lifestyle three years ago when he married Becky Few-Brown but soon the marriage broke down . |
| 7 | She reached the end of the corridor , but he seemed to have given up the chase already . |
| 8 | Besides cooking , he seemed to have done most things , course after course . |
| 9 | He seemed to have dismissed their disturbing conversation to some distant recess in his mind . |
| 10 | It struck her that he seemed to have tacked himself on to the others . |
| 11 | He seemed to have exceeded his own limits . |
| 12 | He seemed to have missed all that somehow . |
| 13 | He seemed to have clinched a seventh victory with his partner , Jean-Louis Schlesser , putting the icing on the cake of their shared world championship . |
| 14 | He seemed to have grown older , more mature — as if his brother 's burden of kingship had fallen on his shoulders also . |
| 15 | He 'd never had any particular fear of darkness , but over the past few weeks he seemed to have grown more and more nervous at night . |
| 16 | He seemed to have grown up , and was much more established in things like the beginnings of lateral work . |
| 17 | And , to Folly 's surprise and delight , he seemed to have planned his examples with her in mind . |
| 18 | But by move 50 he seemed to have lost the thread of the game completely and his position was considerably worse . |
| 19 | He seemed to have lost weight , and his face was all white and drawn , and his hair , which he normally keeps quite neat , was getting straggly . |
| 20 | In fact he seemed to have lost interest in the book before he had completed it — the last two chapters are haphazardly constructed — and he padded it out with three radio talks on " The Unity of European Culture " which he had given two years before . |
| 21 | He tried to grasp what he had been rehearsing but he seemed to have lost it . |
| 22 | He seemed to have made up his mind in advance that he could reveal a certain amount of information about the past rather than the present . |
| 23 | He seemed to have escaped before she had and so she made her way out of the court alone , trying to decide whether to lunch in the tea room upstairs or to go out to a restaurant . |
| 24 | He did n't feel up to the mildest of rebuffs from her ; he seemed to have gone back to a relationship like an adolescent infatuation , reading rejection in the most innocent of her actions . |
| 25 | I blinked at Patterson but he seemed to have understood most of it . |
| 26 | He was also still considerably lighter , although as he rolled his sleeves right up to the top of his arms , Ellie for the first time was aware of the amount of muscle he seemed to have gained . |
| 27 | He seemed to have inherited his father 's love of crookery . |
| 28 | Well , he seemed to have cheered up , thought Ruth , clearing the table . |
| 29 | He seemed to have decided that now was the right time to clean the Great Hall floor and was poking the mop head in among the boys ’ legs , muttering to himself . |
| 30 | She ran downstairs , circling the lift-shaft , certain that he 'd be gone , but when she emerged into the street , he seemed to have moved only a few yards , walking slowly , his head bowed . |