Example sentences of "to have [vb pp] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remaining 16 ( 18% ) patients were referred by other hospital clinics , after inpatient episodes , or appeared to have referred themselves . |
| 2 | Indeed , his affections seem to have redirected themselves , platonically but more or less intact , to fair-browed Reinhard . |
| 3 | In recent years the band seem to have diverted themselves on to projects like ‘ God In Three Persons ’ and ‘ The King And Eye ’ . |
| 4 | Nor are all bruises evidence of battering : I have vivid memories of my own older daughter 's accident-proneness in her earlier years ( she is possibly the only individual in the country to have given herself two black eyes by collision with a holy-water stoup ! ) and on one or two occasions her appearance would inevitably , today , have landed her on the " At risk " register . |
| 5 | Just the odd word here and there , like ‘ horrendous ’ , ‘ brutal ’ , ‘ cold-blooded ’ or ‘ dangerous ’ , had filtered through the screen that seemed to have erected itself around him . |
| 6 | For the purposes of 4 above the settlor shall not be deemed to have divested himself absolutely of any property if that property or any income therefrom or any property directly or indirectly representing the proceeds of or the income from that property or any income therefrom is or will , or may , become payable to or applicable for the benefit of the settlor or the wife or husband of the settlor in any circumstances whatsoever ( TA 1988 , s685(1) ) . |
| 7 | However , if the settlor may benefit on the occurrence of one or more of the following events he will still be deemed ( TA 1988 , s685(2) ) to have divested himself of the property : 1 . |
| 8 | But the Hodgsons seem to have over-extended themselves and lost their monopoly on exporting beer to India , which was subsequently picked up by such upstarts as Bass . |
| 9 | Eliot hailed from St Louis , but the Eliots there seem to have regarded themselves as Bostonian and Unitarian missionaries to that mid-western Philistia . |
| 10 | Nicholson , who is being paid a handsome £5 million , is reported to have immersed himself so completely in the part that he wanders around the set mumbling the notorious Hoffa 's favourite phrases — even after the cameras have shut down for the night . |
| 11 | Labour Front-Bench Members seem to have committed themselves to a single currency despite the fact that some of their Back-Bench supporters continue strongly to oppose it , although they are having difficulty with the question whether a European central bank would be independent . |
| 12 | Against the odds , he seems to have enjoyed himself . |
| 13 | RUMOURS have abounded about the fate of The Ritz in Hartlepool , but matters seem to have resolved themselves and The Rye will definitely be playing there on Bank Holiday Monday to launch Northern Electric 's Culture Shock project . |
| 14 | The headache appeared to have resolved itself with analgesic . |
| 15 | He also expressed irritation about the way Tony seemed to have let himself go in the last few months , since he had become unemployed . |
| 16 | She always would have liked to have let herself be happy . |
| 17 | Promising young batsman , Ian Place , seems to have booked himself a regular spot in A Division side . |
| 18 | While the rebels were in control of broadcasting facilities , former Supreme Soviet chair Sarafali Kenjayev , an ally of Nabiyev , claimed to have installed himself as President , and broadcast an appeal to non-Tajiks not to leave the republic , denouncing the " Islamic fundamentalism " of the current leadership . |
| 19 | ‘ He seems to have surrounded himself with every comfort ; but that is hardly surprising , if he has stayed here all the week for ten years . ’ |
| 20 | Well that seems to have sorted itself out , actually . |
| 21 | How she would have loved to have permitted herself that gesture , then to have stalked out of the room and slammed the door . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ( e ) the vulnerability or otherwise of the target 's board ( the offeror will particularly focus on the board 's achievements and also on any areas where individual directors could be said to have advantaged themselves at the expense of the company ( eg golden parachute arrangements ( see para 18.5.12 below ) ) ; |
| 24 | Steve Platt seems to have caught himself in a dialectical contradiction ( ‘ Not paying , not voting ’ , 8 May ) . |
| 25 | In practice the bulk of the work done by the Sûreté was not criminal investigation at all but political control … and its agents , not trained as professional detectives with clearly-prescribed answerability before a judicial authority , generally stood in low public esteem ; they were never concerned with safeguarding the personal safety and private property of Vietnamese villagers and seem to have considered themselves primarily as a network of agents to watch over the interests of the French state . |
| 26 | The pope seems to have confined himself to insisting on the prohibition of lay investiture . |
| 27 | The brick side-wall of his neighbour 's house seemed to have moved itself four or five feet further towards the dividing fence , so that it loomed offensively . |
| 28 | It is not unfair , then , to see the Webbs and the other early Fabians as they seem to have seen themselves : as philosopher-kings concerned to persuade people of sufficient education and standing to see Socialism through Fabian eyes and so to behold its full beauty . |
| 29 | In that time , Mr Hurd can not be said to have stirred himself . |
| 30 | Green seems to have felt himself an ‘ off-comer ’ all his life after moving to Ambleside from Manchester . |