Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] [pron] in the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Then one day Kirsty met an old friend who happened to have consulted me in the past for regression therapy .
2 It was not a pleasant emotion , but it was a powerful enough one to have sustained him in the search when evidence was lacking .
3 I ought to have stopped you in the beginning — I ought to have walloped you good and hard instead of hiding the things and pretending I did n't know anything about it .
4 It seemed to Julia to be the height of good manners to have greeted a stranger with apparent pleasure under such circumstances and then to have included her in the family teasing , but she wanted to make certain that they could forget their manners and talk freely to each other without having to bother about her .
5 He did n't appear to have seen her in the water and Rachel had the advantage of watching him unobserved as he strolled along the poolside , a towel slung around his neck .
6 ‘ I 'd have loved to have seen her in the flesh .
7 In that case , the party whom the clause favours ( usually the seller ) will not be found to have incorporated it in the contract unless either it was in a contractual document signed by the other party or else reasonable steps had been taken to bring it to the attention of the other party .
8 With help from master decorator Renzo Mongiardino , who is known to have helped him in the past , Ortiz-Patiño should have little trouble showing off the rare editions , manuscripts and fine bindings first collected by his father ; his own Dutch and Spanish Old Master paintings ; English silver by Paul de Lamerie and the gold snuff boxes he has been collecting since 1956 .
9 find it had been better for them to have left their in the bank !
10 How convenient of John Major to have put himself in the position of bringing the Maastricht issue to a head — and at the same time virtually assuring a no-confidence vote in the Government — on the day the sun and Saturn are in a tense 90-degree angle to each other .
11 Ramprakash looked to have established himself in the Test side with a series of fighting knocks against the West Indians in 1991 .
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