Example sentences of "[vb past] to have [verb] [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Annie was concerned to see that Elizabeth seemed to have lost much of her sparkle . |
| 2 | Seb thought she looked thinner and seemed to have lost much of the air of confidence that had always been so much a part of her . |
| 3 | It was as though she were in some sort of a trance , a pallid undertone to the sun-dark skin , the nostrils of that straight nose slightly flared ; even the jaw seemed to have lost some of its determined thrust . |
| 4 | I blinked at Patterson but he seemed to have understood most of it . |
| 5 | By the time of Richard 's birth , however , Henry seemed to have overcome both of these difficulties . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | However , she seemed to have forgotten all about it , because she told him to pull up a chair and warm himself by the fire . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She grinned , recalling how they seemed to have spent most of the night making love — time and again . |
| 10 | Less than a quarter claimed to have read all of it or to remember the topics it dealt with . |
| 11 | Harrell claimed to have used much of the money to assist the poor , thereby acquiring the nickname " Robin HUD " [ see also p. 37405 ] . |
| 12 | If your psychoanalysis is reports , and not just the actions , of it can be a , used as arguments to er , allow this story to emphasise what the human ages evolved at specific suicide of men , erm , goes on to show examples of his erm , he actually claimed to have used this as a sort of process of identification of even fantasizing , in order to try and er demonstrate how er , I think it was Hadrian 's Wall was built , try to identify with engineers and architects who built Hadrian 's Wall , in order to try and work out what the actual function of the wall was . |
| 13 | The Thatcher government , after a period of rapid decline in manufacturing and a sharp rise in unemployment , which reached 3.2 million by mid-1982 , appeared to have conquered many of the major difficulties in the mid-1980s , and there was talk of a ‘ British miracle ’ comparable to those of Germany and Japan . |
| 14 | Andrée appeared to have padded most of her edges ; she was being considerate , intelligent , serious , talking like an elder person generous with knowledge to a younger one , and Flavia ceased to feel an absurd adolescent and a target . |
| 15 | The Authority appeared to have underestimated these in its programme of INSET and support . |