Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] to have [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can legitimately offer most people that came here today er I happen to have rejected a couple . |
| 2 | But at the moment I seem to have done a lot of stuff with foam so |
| 3 | I seem to have swallowed a bit of thallium … ’ |
| 4 | I seem to have grown a trifle anxious . ’ |
| 5 | This same guilloche also makes up the border of the saltire , thus enclosing the curved sides of the semi-roundels , all of which appear to have contained a seabeast . |
| 6 | This raises questions at present unanswerable , and complicated by the existence of a second long base in the sanctuary which seems to have supported a pursuit-scene ( possibly Zeus and the Nymph Aegina on whom he begot Aiakos , Telamon 's father ) ; and this might have been a first west pediment . |
| 7 | By 799 Coenwulf was also in a position to conclude a new treaty of peace with the West Saxons , which seems to have terminated a period of temporary estrangement ( CS 295 : S 154 ) . |
| 8 | Despite continued campaigning for a playground or field — which seems to have hit a brick wall — they have still nowhere else in Holybourne for them to go , the Herald was told . |
| 9 | If the source of ivory was elephant ( MacGregor 1985 ) , Indian or African , a larger number might be expected in Kent which appears to have had a dominance over many of the goods imported from the Continent and Mediterranean . |
| 10 | Last night we looked back at the history of the MG , which appeared to have died a death when the factory at Abingdon closed in 1981 . |
| 11 | Over the past six months or so you appear to have taken a leaf out of the Aquarian book and aired your grievances in such a manner that you now face the possibility of a complete break from the past , which in turn would alter so much you have built up and established over the years . |
| 12 | She seemed to have lost a shoe , and her dress was not only dirty but torn in several places . |
| 13 | She seemed to have taken a turn for the worse , her eyes had gone dull and slitty again with a third kind of lid coming half across . |
| 14 | She seemed to have acquired a lot of peculiarities herself . |
| 15 | Fairley is especially concerned with the difference between " literal " readers , who do not go beyond the surface meaning of the text , and " figurative " readers , who seem to have internalised a number of conventions of reading which enable them to reach less obvious and more satisfactory interpretative results . |
| 16 | You you seem to have done a lot of work with other tradesmen and people around the area . |
| 17 | You seem to have brought a bit of colour to our Jimmy 's cheeks . |
| 18 | Consequently , you seem to have experienced a testing period in close personal ties and in joint financial arrangements , and during the first three weeks of April you will come to realise that a day of reckoning or a major upheaval was unavoidable . |
| 19 | 660 if the king , Swithfrith , who appears to have given a foundation gift to the monastery ( CS 87 : S 1246 ) , was a co-ruler with King Swithhelm who died c . |
| 20 | Miss Murdock , who appears to have had a sense of humour , expressed her high regard for the autochrome process , the delights of which she said , were mainly due to the high number of failures that made the occasional success all the more thrilling . |
| 21 | Miss Murdock , who appears to have had a sense of humour , expressed her high regard for the autochrome process , the delights of which she said , were mainly due to the high number of failures that made the occasional successes all the more thrilling . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , she 's usually particular who rides Leopold , but she seems to have taken a shine to the boy . |
| 23 | She seems to have found a niche in Askham Grange , much more than in Grisly Risley , where she claims the screws tried to ‘ break my spirit . |
| 24 | Then there are the people who claim to have conducted a literature search and have failed to find anything on ( usually ) Oscars or Rift Valley Cichlids . |
| 25 | Perhaps it was due to her feeling adrift , but she appeared to have suffered a brainstorm . |
| 26 | I was rather going to ask how you come to have accepted a post which must necessarily be curtailed before too long . ’ |
| 27 | Anyway , we seem to have put a spoke in Fouché 's wheel this time , with some assistance from Fedorov and the Grand Army . ’ |
| 28 | We seem to have solved a couple of murders , but espionage is a job for specialists . |
| 29 | Somewhere along the way we seem to have got a lot of wires crossed . ’ |
| 30 | The Grumpy one seems to have made a bit of a comeback recently . |