Example sentences of "[adv] to have [vb pp] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilson was quick to see how provocative such a development would be to the shipowners and refused to accept the post , though he confessed to have been " foolish enough to have allowed myself to be nominated and elected as honorary general manager , which meant that I was lending my name to an organization over which I had no control " . |
| 2 | Now that she had met Silas Wilder , Lucy realised it would not be easy to persuade him to visit his stepmother , and once again she wondered why she had been stupid enough to have allowed herself to become involved in this situation . |
| 3 | In 1980 we ought perhaps to have asked ourselves whether this river might have been the Shatt al-Arab itself , while one of the characters was Iranian and the other Iraqi . |
| 4 | Morton Meyerson , head of Perot Systems Corp , appears to have ruled himself out of the vacant post atop IBM Corp according to the New York Times : it reckons that RJR Nabisco Inc chief Louis Gerstner , who does not have a computer industry background , is now the only front-runner not to have ruled himself out . |
| 5 | Neurotic enough to have vanished of her own accord — or even to have got herself murdered . |