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

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1 Officers interviewed a lorry driver in Doncaster after he reported having seen a girl who resembled Moira with two other lorry drivers the day after she disappeared .
2 None of the subjects reported having expected a memory test and most reported finding it extremely difficult .
3 No subjects reported having expected a memory test even though many of them had already taken part in Study 1 .
4 None of the subjects reported having expected a memory test .
5 As she said it , she managed to look back at him levelly , though she 'd had to suppress a dart of guilt before she spoke .
6 I also had a letter from about some request she 'd had to send a copy of the CAMET corpus to Sheffield .
7 It was only when I was almost in despair that I recalled having seen a letter written by a knitter from overseas , about an easy way to make cables and it seemed a pleasant way to take a break by referring back a few months until I found the letter from — you 've guessed it — June Shaw .
8 A QUB woman student , a member of the NDP , recalled having told a group of policemen early in the events that their conditions were as bad as those the demonstrators were protesting about .
9 The mother of a three year old boy believed to have dropped a baby girl who was found dead at a playgroup has expressed symapathy for the child 's family .
10 Those of you who attended this year 's day given by seemed to have gained a lot from it , so what else would you like ?
11 When it was over and they climbed from the cars Danny needed a considerable amount of calming as his excitement seemed to have reached a peak .
12 Indeed , it did n't seem quite impossible even to me , as he seemed to have reached a kind of plateau — no better but certainly no worse , free of pain and very happy — often informing me that he was getting stronger every day .
13 They seemed to have reached a point of no return some time ago . ’
14 Vegetables seemed to have reached a record price .
15 She seemed to have lost a shoe , and her dress was not only dirty but torn in several places .
16 More than ever , it seemed to have become a part of her body .
17 The incident with the residents from Conway House seemed to have struck a note of rapport between Rachel and David and during the following week their working relationship seemed much less strained .
18 The share prices of Catalyst Communications and of Corton Beach , strictly on a temporary basis , dropped back ; these erstwhile giants of the OTC market seemed to have come a cropper .
19 This seemed to have prompted a rush of at least six people to seek Dr Kevorkian 's assistance in January and February .
20 She seemed to have taken a turn for the worse , her eyes had gone dull and slitty again with a third kind of lid coming half across .
21 The ball seemed to have acquired a life of its own .
22 She seemed to have acquired a lot of peculiarities herself .
23 As she had fantasised about Vitor rethinking , so her foster brother seemed to have concocted a dream world of his own , Ashley thought bemusedly .
24 Her brother 's death seemed to have removed a barrier between them .
25 Thus , the change masters I studied had to build a coalition in order to find the backers or ‘ power sources ’ to provide information , support , and resources for their projects .
26 I absolutely hated having to wear a skirt but I soon got used to it .
27 The sole Coventry man stated to have kept a journeyman was assessed at £5 , the master of two apprentices was worth £30 ; on the other hand , a third , who also had an apprentice , owned no property that could be valued .
28 We may now consider a paper of Stoyanov ( 1979 ) in which he claimed to have obtained a solution without singularities .
29 The child said he claimed to have witnessed a murder , and had been affected by it .
30 John Ryan MP claimed to have seen a policeman remove a woman 's glasses and then strike her on the head ; she had appeared , to him , to be over sixty years of age and a bystander .
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