Example sentences of "[vb past] to have [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A great white shark , believed to have killed a 31-year-old scuba diver on his honeymoon in Australia , was spotted today . |
| 2 | Even a week of sitting there , supping in the beer by a kind of osmosis through the atmosphere , and eating solid sandwiches , seemed to have deposited a tiny roll of fat round his waist . |
| 3 | Donaldson side-stepped to avoid two solicitors in conversation , youngish men who seemed to have made a conscious effort to propel themselves into a facsimile of late middle-age . |
| 4 | She seemed to have made a rapid improvement in health since I last saw her . |
| 5 | Generally , these cash buyers seemed to have made a fair assessment of their chances , in that they were unemployed or already had great difficulty matching small incomes to their outgoings . |
| 6 | He seemed to have clinched a seventh victory with his partner , Jean-Louis Schlesser , putting the icing on the cake of their shared world championship . |
| 7 | Fertiliser use is apparently very limited because of cost in spite of such grants and the RP seemed to have to peddle a narrow course between not stimulating significant agricultural change but allowing enough development to support a viable local economy . |
| 8 | In his writings on the colonial situation in China and India , Marx was puzzled by the fact that , although both these countries seemed to have reached a higher state of civilization than Europe in earlier times , they were in his time being overtaken by Europe , as the colonial conquests showed . |
| 9 | By 1987 she and Charles seemed to have reached an all-time low , if not in their marriage , then certainly in the public 's perception of it . |
| 10 | Being born and brought up next to a butcher 's shop in a Somerset town in the closing years of the 18th century may not have been the healthiest start in life for a child , but those who saw out the dangerous first two or three years seemed to have stood a good chance of survival thereafter . |
| 11 | Les and Peg seemed to have uncovered a simple truth which has evaded so many of us . |
| 12 | Her emotions seemed to have undergone a deep sea-change over the last few hours . |
| 13 | Alexander seemed to have become a decisive proponent of reform . |
| 14 | The Hilary of once upon a time would have done it and taken great pleasure in confronting him , but the Hilary of now seemed to have become a spineless coward . |
| 15 | This seemed to have become a permanent condition . |
| 16 | Her lips parted to tell him that it did , but hesitation seemed to have become a periodic tendency , afflicting her like hiccoughs . |
| 17 | War seemed to have become an unusable tool of statecraft . |
| 18 | There were only a handful of other people in the library reference section ; the normal air of peace and quiet one would expect in such a place seemed to have become an unnatural silence . |
| 19 | Controversy aside , the fact that Dykstra was called upon so often vouched for Rangers ' ascendancy but the Hateley/McCoist goal machine seemed to have developed a mechanical fault . |
| 20 | Only three days and they seemed to have travelled a great distance . |
| 21 | At a time when governments seemed to have learnt a great deal about economic management they found it increasingly difficult to practise it . |
| 22 | Everybody seemed to have bought a new dress for the occasion , and she had hardly finished paying for her suit . |
| 23 | It seemed to have lasted a long time and there had been no glory for me in it . |
| 24 | More to the point , the urgent message rushing from her brain to her feet seemed to have encountered an impassable landslide en route . |
| 25 | Although upright and looking much younger than her years , she seemed to have changed a great deal from when I had seen her last , and she wore a slightly dazed expression ( as well she might , I told myself , considering her age and the difficulty of her situation ) . |
| 26 | Everyone seemed to have found an old friend to talk to . |
| 27 | In some ways , thought Henry , the man with whom Donald had been confused seemed to have had a better time of it . |
| 28 | Green was all for restoring Lord 's Island which seemed to have had a strange fascination for him , as it has for the present writer who has also , found for herself , the vestiges of the pier , the house , the shooting butts , etc . |
| 29 | Japan seemed to have invented a new way to create ultra-cheap money . |
| 30 | By then it was too late to try and change her policy , for the overseer seemed to have taken a real dislike to her , watching for any slip she made , so that he could punish her for being high and mighty as he called it . |