Example sentences of "[vb past] to have [verb] a great [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Only three days and they seemed to have travelled a great distance .
2 At a time when governments seemed to have learnt a great deal about economic management they found it increasingly difficult to practise it .
3 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 ) .
4 He was angry with the Colonel , who seemed to have taken a great deal upon himself .
5 It was something he seemed to have spent a great deal of his life wondering .
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