Example sentences of "to have [vb pp] [pron] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a lot of very good stuff here but he seems to have gathered it up in armfuls and just bundled it in anywhere . |
| 2 | He still looks pretty miserable , but Dancer seems to have cheered him up , and the specialist says he 'll definitely be playing again next year . ’ |
| 3 | I have always thought that the sweetening of the waters of Marah resulted from the removal of the iron by the coagulation and flocculation of iron/tannin complexes , the tannin being derived from that tree — though I think that he [ Moses ] would have had to have bashed it up a bit first . |
| 4 | In recent years the band seem to have diverted themselves on to projects like ‘ God In Three Persons ’ and ‘ The King And Eye ’ . |
| 5 | By calling on his fellow socialists to perform the equivalent of a collective hara-kiri , he paradoxically appears to have given them back hope of a new life at the moment of their deepest despair . |
| 6 | By calling on his fellow party members to perform the equivalent of a collective hara-kiri , he paradoxically appears to have given them back hope of a new life at the moment of their deepest despair . |
| 7 | Even more so , to have blurted it out to him . |
| 8 | Cecilia reflected on how massive the explosion must have been for her and that beautiful girl to have heard it up here in West Hampstead . |
| 9 | I 've read accounts of that incident in which I was supposed to have smashed everything up in his room . |
| 10 | Over the intervening years , however , the West may be thought to have let him down by declining , diminishing , to the condition of the West Indies : by becoming a backwater , with its Watergate and Ulster , its economic arrests and somnambulistic states of emergency . |
| 11 | People throughout Europe and America began to complain against their new god who seemed to have let them down . |
| 12 | Much as they admired him and loved him , he seemed to have let them down . |
| 13 | Well that seems to have sorted itself out , actually . |
| 14 | Since the antimatter particle did not have any existence before , the Universe has received an injection of extra energy ; on the other hand , it has lost the energy of the particle that fell into the black hole , so things seem to have evened themselves out . |
| 15 | HER REPLY on August 21 appears to have tipped him over a political brink . |
| 16 | ‘ I would n't put it past the old devil to have done it out of sheer bravado . ’ |
| 17 | Though he occasionally complained that his agent pushed too much work in his direction , he appears to have turned nothing down , accepting even very slight commissions from the Penrose Annual or the Complete Imbiber . |
| 18 | She is said to have turned him down but that rebuff did little to dampen his ardour . |
| 19 | It would not have been wise for his health , or that of his wife and three children , to have turned it down . |
| 20 | Rovers chief executive Frank Corfe said : ‘ We are absolutely delighted to have made it in after six years of trying . |
| 21 | Peter Kennett and Sgt. Waghorn , intercepted a Ju88 and were reported to have shot it down . |
| 22 | The distinctive Lewisian thing was to have written them down . |
| 23 | You seem to have thought it out already , more so than Unesco has himself . |
| 24 | But the Australian captain ( above ) looks happy enough to have got it off his chest . |
| 25 | She said : ‘ The Tates were there and they sent a big wreath ; we ought to have invited them back with us . ’ |
| 26 | I would n't put it past that bitch to have set her up to frame me . ’ |
| 27 | Powell is the only real modernist in British fiction to have pulled it off since Joyce . |
| 28 | It would even be worth surrendering his prey , to have brought him down to the ignominy of lying to excuse himself . |
| 29 | It must be serious , to have brought you out on that TV-type chase ? |
| 30 | But I mean that 's a terrifying thing to have found him in |