Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [vb pp] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just the odd word here and there , like ‘ horrendous ’ , ‘ brutal ’ , ‘ cold-blooded ’ or ‘ dangerous ’ , had filtered through the screen that seemed to have erected itself around him . |
| 2 | The extraordinary atmosphere was keeping me so sky-high that my private feelings for John seemed to have detached themselves and slipped out of reach . |
| 3 | It struck her that he seemed to have tacked himself on to the others . |
| 4 | The brick side-wall of his neighbour 's house seemed to have moved itself four or five feet further towards the dividing fence , so that it loomed offensively . |
| 5 | He was starting to appear distinctly shopworn , Lucy noted ; he seemed to have bought himself a new shirt , but a dip-through in a hotel washbasin did n't exactly make for the best possible finish . |
| 6 | Geographical concentration , having been interrupted by the decentralization of the '60s and early '70s , seemed to have reasserted itself . |
| 7 | Even Britain seemed to have transformed itself . |
| 8 | This led to a great setback for the Company ; by the early 1680s it seemed to have established itself , and paid its first dividends , at about 50 per cent a year , but it was then caught up in England 's wars against France , the bases were captured , and no regular dividends could be paid until after it had got its property back under the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 . |
| 9 | That knot seemed to have established itself in her throat once more . |
| 10 | My head seemed to have emptied itself of words . |
| 11 | Rob Harland ( 18 points ) top scored for Norton again in the 58.39 home win over Belmont but they seemed to have left themselves with too much to do having lost four games already . |
| 12 | He also expressed irritation about the way Tony seemed to have let himself go in the last few months , since he had become unemployed . |
| 13 | Thankfully he seemed to have recovered himself , she noted . |
| 14 | She had n't been keeping track of the conversation , but he seemed to have pulled himself together over the past few minutes . |
| 15 | She seemed to have pulled herself together , but she did n't answer him . |
| 16 | Marguerite was already there and she too seemed to have pulled herself together because she took charge of the conversation at once . |
| 17 | Mark , too , after the slightly disquieting observations about Roman Catholic priests , seemed to have removed himself from her . |
| 18 | Pumlumon seemed to have got himself quite well into the enchantment now ; he was looking much less worried than he had looked ten minutes earlier . |
| 19 | While the rebels were in control of broadcasting facilities , former Supreme Soviet chair Sarafali Kenjayev , an ally of Nabiyev , claimed to have installed himself as President , and broadcast an appeal to non-Tajiks not to leave the republic , denouncing the " Islamic fundamentalism " of the current leadership . |
| 20 | A figure of that sort , roughly twice the value of East Germany 's 1986 exports and imports combined , is bound to cause incredulity , but even if the figure were halved , it would still be a remarkable indication of what has happened to a country which in the first half of the 1980s claimed to have established itself among the top ten industrial nations . |
| 21 | Lyn was up 7–1 ( ! ) to Brann away and looked to have saved themselves with three minutes to go — but they relaxed to early and got two late , late goals against them and thus won 7–3 , a goal to little and was relegated . |
| 22 | Ramprakash looked to have established himself in the Test side with a series of fighting knocks against the West Indians in 1991 . |
| 23 | You will know this already , I suppose , but the point of a good fight , the way you relieve the tension , is not just in hitting someone : you got to get hit yourself . |
| 24 | Gaggings and chokings and wailings and grumbles and mumbles and expostulations and curses and oaths followed each other in rapid sequence in response to the fluent introductory speech by Fishbane , who appeared to have appointed himself master of ceremonies . |
| 25 | The remaining 16 ( 18% ) patients were referred by other hospital clinics , after inpatient episodes , or appeared to have referred themselves . |
| 26 | It appeared to have locked itself . |
| 27 | Edward , who appeared to have detached himself from the proceedings , stared out of the window . |
| 28 | But while Yorkshire fail on the field there will always be discontent , and Boycott , after a period in which he appeared to have submerged himself in a media career , may head the opposition once more . |
| 29 | So delicious were the nibbles and munchies in some showrooms that designers and hangers-on appeared to have starved themselves for days , before descending on the groaning showroom tables like a flock of unusually well-groomed vultures . |
| 30 | For she was far from being the ruthlessly manipulative monster that Jake appeared to have convinced himself she was . |