Example sentences of "[pers pn] to have [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But by the time I tell you her story I want you to be prepared : that 's to say , I want you to have had enough of books , and parrots , and lost letters , and bears , and the opinions of Dr Enid Starkie , and even the opinions of Dr Geoffrey Braithwaite . |
| 2 | It must be important for her to have driven all the way up north and bluff her way into his house . |
| 3 | This is Tuesday and it would have been appropriate for him to have raised this matter then . |
| 4 | For him to have done this he would have had to deny the teaching of the Old Testament . |
| 5 | He remembered a swamp draining into a lagoon some distance to the right of the highway — the road must have been raised for him to have seen that distance . |
| 6 | But it was kind of him to have organised this — and at least they would command a good view of the bridge . |
| 7 | said that if there was true consent , the essential element of dishonesty was not established , I understand him to have meant this . |
| 8 | as if the police , or anyone else , will think there must be something wrong with them for them to have got such letters in the first place . ’ |
| 9 | I must say again that it is very odd for me to have to describe all this for you . |
| 10 | Absolutely now I mean i i it 's interesting for women because I suppose in Australia I was a Republican and here I suppose I thought I saw about two erm now for me to have used that word thirty years ago I would possibly have been locked in the garden shed and left without food and drink |
| 11 | Can you imagine how bitter it is for me to have to write that sentence ? |
| 12 | But if it was as clever and efficient as we in the West say it is , then one might expect it to have achieved much more . |
| 13 | Indeed it would have been quite impossible for it to have adopted any other attitude . |
| 14 | It 's a bit naughty is n't it to have had such a good game and er |