Example sentences of "[vb past] have [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | White cotton sheets that I 'd had bought as a wedding present . |
| 2 | I seemed to have stumbled into a painting by Hogarth . |
| 3 | She spoke in this way until the girl 's hand went limp and she seemed to have fallen into a doze . |
| 4 | She seemed to have gone through a character change . |
| 5 | After some uneventful voyages over the years , and at least seven previous masters , the Orynthia seemed to have turned into a hornets ' nest . |
| 6 | There was no mention of any such glass in an early twentieth-century description , and it seemed to have disappeared before a restoration of 1869 . |
| 7 | Her stomach seemed to have disappeared in a warm , melting whirlpool of longing . |
| 8 | Despite the reward and an extensive search of the area police enquiries seemed to have come to a halt . |
| 9 | Mrs Vi MacNamara , mother of Mrs Arnold , said the couple seemed to have left in a hurry . |
| 10 | It seemed to have happened in a rush , just recently ; Ruth still thought of her as the upright , vigorous Gran of her childhood . |
| 11 | In the latest incident , on July 10 , six policemen , part of an allegedly drunken patrol , were arrested and charged with the murder of 17 passengers after shooting down a civilian aircraft , which they claimed to have mistaken for a drug smuggling plane , as it took off from Bellavista , 800 km to the north-west of the capital Lima . |
| 12 | Fatherless Shirley knew perfectly well that most British men carved , and that it was a bit of bad luck that she happened to have married into a family where the women were expected to wield the knife . |
| 13 | Around two-thirds of consumers polled had shopped on a Sunday in the preceding month , doing on average 5% of their weekly shopping on the sabbath . |
| 14 | People who had lived in old people 's homes were less likely than others who died to have gone into a hospital or hospice during the last year of their lives or to die in one . |
| 15 | A friend of mine lost a whole litter by feeding them a wild goose which he thought had died as a result of a collision with overhead power cables . |
| 16 | When at last the influx appeared to have slowed to a trickle , the engine was started . |
| 17 | By now Pétain appeared to have sunk into a kind of gloom ( and no doubt fatigue ) , as betrayed by a nervous tic of the right eyelid . |
| 18 | That day The Hindu newspaper reported that the VHP and the Uttar Pradesh state government " appeared to have agreed to a ceasefire " . |
| 19 | The fact that magnesium atoms are smaller than the calcium atoms they replaced has let to a reduction in the volume of the rock . |
| 20 | I made the choice at random , the sole criterion being that a book had to have come from a library and have a recognisable sign of its origin . |