Example sentences of "[vb past] to have [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ He got better — went back to the Fire Service , ’ she said , but Eileen 's innocent remark seemed to have touched some nerve which made her say bitterly , ‘ He went back to scrimping and saving to keep his horrible wife in comfort in a nursing home . |
| 3 | A way forward seemed to have emerged some decades ago with the school of " facet analysis " developed from the work of Dr S. R. Ranganathan , whose revolutionary Colon Classification is widely in use throughout India . |
| 4 | The salesman and Hank , however , seemed to have reached some agreement and strolled towards the office , where fat old Josh presided over the financing section with the careful rapacity of a born moneylender . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | But a small part of her cried that Ace seemed to have lost all sense of kindness and decency as far as she was concerned . |
| 7 | She wanted to move away from him , but she seemed to have lost all sensation in her limbs . |
| 8 | The train was still moving between stations but the twins seemed to have lost all interest in knowing how long it took and relaying this information to the rest of the carriage . |
| 9 | She seemed to have lost some sense that events could be controlled or hopefully directed . |
| 10 | His eyes seemed to have gathered more gold from somewhere … |
| 11 | I seemed to have missed some mail lately , my sister kept asking me whether I had n't received her letters . " |
| 12 | Besides cooking , he seemed to have done most things , course after course . |
| 13 | Louise was so animated by now that she seemed to have forgotten that morning 's funeral . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | After all , Charles never seemed to have held much regard for Christian morality and marriage laws , and certainly was not likely to let papal complaints and rhetoric alter his decisions . |
| 16 | They seemed to have brought another world into the shop . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Hezbollah claimed to have killed some members of a joint Israeli-SLA patrol in a bomb attack in the " security zone " on Jan. 17 . |
| 19 | Clark claimed to have seen little damage to military targets but maintained that residential areas and hospitals and other civilian facilities had been severely attacked , resulting in heavy civilian casualties . |
| 20 | In their continuing efforts to cut off supplies to government forces besieged in Berbera , the SNM claimed to have captured another cargo ship in the Red Sea on Jan. 15 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | It followed a stormy and agonized debate , but Landsbergis 's stated support for the moratorium appeared to have swayed many deputies . |
| 24 | Also , we appeared to have caught this bear in a rare good mood . |
| 25 | THE difficulties in the UK commercial property sector appeared to have claimed another victim yesterday after Surrey-based Bredero Properties announced it had breached its banking covenants , writes Richard Shackleton . |
| 26 | At the Nov. 26 meeting , however , the Irish government appeared to have relaxed this stipulation , according to Guardian of Nov. 27 . |
| 27 | His words to Osman appeared to have had some effect . |
| 28 | Also prohibited was payment of ransom or protection money to the guerrillas by farmers and businesspeople ; companies proved to have paid such money would lose their operating licences . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Is it necessary that you had to have had some kind of fantasy before |