Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] to have [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I seemed to have missed some mail lately , my sister kept asking me whether I had n't received her letters . " |
| 2 | I seemed to have spent most of my life in hotel rooms where room service wanted money in advance and the roller towels were fixed with a padlock . |
| 3 | So I happened to have got some slides of tattoos and some slides of fairground er , art and erm some slides of board games of through |
| 4 | He says , you know when I came to this house I had to have split all my furniture into little bits so I could get it up the stairs . |
| 5 | It could well be significant that Cnut is not himself said to have had any connection with the document , and it may reveal little of the real business of the Oxford meeting . |
| 6 | It was he who helped to have removed those lines in the inscription on the Monument which accused Roman Catholics of starting the Great Fire of London . |
| 7 | Anyway she seemed to have swallowed all that about Uncle Walter . |
| 8 | Susan was quite well now ; at least , she had recovered from the effect of nursing their father through that long , heart-breaking illness , but she seemed to have lost all her spirit . |
| 9 | She wanted to move away from him , but she seemed to have lost all sensation in her limbs . |
| 10 | She seemed to have lost some sense that events could be controlled or hopefully directed . |
| 11 | Louise was so animated by now that she seemed to have forgotten that morning 's funeral . |
| 12 | Since their arrival at ‘ La Felicità ’ she seemed to have forgotten all the social life she was missing in England and devoted her energies to the narcissistic process of going brown , measuring each day the contrast between her exposed wrist and the satisfying white band left beneath her watch-strap . |
| 13 | However , she seemed to have forgotten all about it , because she told him to pull up a chair and warm himself by the fire . |
| 14 | For those who claimed to have had this experience , the exemplary manner in which they met their death was the ultimate proof they were indeed saved . |
| 15 | Would , wo , would you liked to have known more ? |
| 16 | Is it necessary that you had to have had some kind of fantasy before |
| 17 | What excited them even more was that , surprisingly , no one seemed to have followed this idea up ( and indeed no one had , as B. Mamyrin confirmed in 1989 ) . |
| 18 | Also , we appeared to have caught this bear in a rare good mood . |
| 19 | They seemed to have brought another world into the shop . |
| 20 | She grinned , recalling how they seemed to have spent most of the night making love — time and again . |
| 21 | Besides cooking , he seemed to have done most things , course after course . |
| 22 | He seemed to have missed all that somehow . |
| 23 | I blinked at Patterson but he seemed to have understood most of it . |
| 24 | It was disquieting , though , the way he seemed to have to make these excuses to himself , as if his conscience which he had , so he thought at the age of sixteen , successfully buried , had suddenly reawakened to plague him , not about the fundamentals of belief and morality but about such comparative trivialities as whether or not one should attend the church bazaar . |
| 25 | I thought he was going to say , I 'm not saying anything more in front of him , but no , he seemed to have forgotten all about Vern . |
| 26 | In her company he seemed to have shed some English drilling and become more American . " |
| 27 | Jose Miguel had been his usual model of self-effacing but steely efficiency and he seemed to have conjured another two birdies from the course without anyone noticing , although he too had dropped one shot . |
| 28 | And now , eighteen years afterwards , in a poorly attended North London church of hideous architecture and amid clouds of strong incense , he seemed to have regained that faith . |
| 29 | On overturning a Tory majority last time of 2,639 , he appeared to have taken all the Labour gain from the Liberal Democrats . |