Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] [pron] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise , it seems to have regarded it as a matter of political judgment . |
| 2 | Australian DJ Brian White told his listeners that a drunken journalist had approached Kylie after she had been presented with an award and asked her if she felt ashamed to have won it in a room full of so many talented people . |
| 3 | One glimmer of hope though , tonight police say that someone who knows the couple claims to have seen them at a garden centre in herefordshire . |
| 4 | This last work was never finished : Mozart seems to have written it as an act of thanksgiving for his marriage , intending Constanze herself to sing as soprano soloist . |
| 5 | I bred him and love the horse , and I 'm delighted to have sold him to an owner who will look after his interests . |
| 6 | Former Neighbours star Rachel Friend seems to have had everything on a plate . |
| 7 | The attempt on his life , in which he is understood to have injected himself with a drug overdose , was his third since his arrest . |
| 8 | Otto 's brother-in-law King Athelstan appears to have called himself by a variety of high sounding titles , emperor ( if any of the documents are genuine ) and basileus , the Greek word for king and part of the official title of the Byzantine emperor ( though it is not clear whether the English realized this ) . |
| 9 | You seem to have styled yourself as a knight in shining armour for her , and I admit she makes a rather sweet damsel in distress , but — ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I would have preferred to have invited you to a waitress service lunch over there of course . ’ |
| 11 | She thought that Elizabeth was foolish to have married a silent countryman and to have condemned herself to a life of boredom , and that she should have known better . |
| 12 | At the moment of writing , Labour seems to have lumbered itself with a system in which thode entitled to nominate — Labour MPs — will have no reliable means of guessing whether they are wasting their nominations on a no-hoper . |
| 13 | She was damn lucky to have pulled him as a husband . |
| 14 | Together with its stultifying racial enmities , this seems to have brought it to a halt , and placed it beyond history . |
| 15 | Of relics of ‘ Our Henry 's ’ birth , the chateau of Pau keeps a single , peculiar example : the large turtle-shell supposed to have served him for a cradle , once his grandfather had christened him by rubbing his lips with a clove of garlic and a dab of Jurançon wine . |
| 16 | But while Yorkshire fail on the field there will always be discontent , and Boycott , after a period in which he appeared to have submerged himself in a media career , may head the opposition once more . |
| 17 | ‘ Heather seems to have taken it as a confirmation of her belief in the significance of the Tyrrell Society . ’ |
| 18 | In their friends ' eyes it would have been unreasonably proprietorial of him not to have released her with a minimum of fuss . |