Example sentences of "[vb past] to have [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a shrunken Frank , whose body seemed to have contracted out of sympathy with his shrivelled spirit . |
| 2 | Motorola Inc 's 88000 RISC family seemed to have lost out at Harris Computer Systems Corp when the Fort Lauderdale , Florida-based firm announced it was switching allegiances to the IBM/Apple/Motorola PowerPC architecture ( UX No 407 ) , however the company now says it will roll-out 88110 versions of its NightHawk real-time machines by the end of March . |
| 3 | With his low-crowned hat and antiquated clerical costume , his broad scholarship and unenthusiastic divinity , his uncompromising insistence on ancient rights ( especially in chapter ) , his belief that land and ‘ the funds ’ were the only proper investment for the college and industrial shares a new form of the South Sea Bubble , he seemed to have stepped out of the eighteenth century . |
| 4 | ‘ You could have had a hundred casual affairs , and I 'd have adjusted to them somehow and tried to make you fall in love with me , but the thought that you 'd loved someone else and still loved him , because it seemed to have gone on over the years , periodically resumed … |
| 5 | He did n't feel up to the mildest of rebuffs from her ; he seemed to have gone back to a relationship like an adolescent infatuation , reading rejection in the most innocent of her actions . |
| 6 | Later , Emerson was to continue racing in other forms , in the US Cart championship and elsewhere : the bug was still in him , success came occasionally , but the spirit seemed to have gone out of the man . |
| 7 | The anger seemed to have gone out of him . |
| 8 | ‘ He sort of talked me into it , ’ she said after a pause that seemed to have gone out of control . |
| 9 | She seemed to have jumped up from nowhere . |
| 10 | Fortunately , Luke 's anger seemed to have evaporated along with the steam that surrounded them . |
| 11 | Everything seemed to have moved on to a level of fantasy . |
| 12 | Her brain , as usual , seemed to have seized up in Roman 's overpowering company . |
| 13 | Her vision of inter-governmental European co-operation within a wider ‘ Atlantic ’ framework seemed to have won out over schemes for more radical co-operation . |
| 14 | She seemed to have come down to earth , leaving behind the soap-opera image that she had once appeared to be caught up in . |
| 15 | I heard myself say to him , though the different sections of my brain seemed to have slipped out of synch somehow , and I was aware of all sorts of different things at once , and time seemed to have slowed down and at the same time some part of my brain was racing , trying to come up with some logical explanation for what was going on that did n't involve calamity … and failing . |
| 16 | Summer seemed to have flitted by in a space of days . |
| 17 | The source could only be the south-facing windows , but there was n't a glimmer in that direction ; the light seemed to have slid through without touching the stone shutters . |
| 18 | Adam seemed to have sunk back into his trance , and she got to her feet , leaving him lying . |
| 19 | Being together even wrought a curious change in their characters ; Oldfield noticed that something of his diffidence seemed to have rubbed off on Branson . |
| 20 | Benjamin 's stomach seemed to have caught up with his memories for he now looked white-faced and confessed he felt queasy . |
| 21 | People who seemed to have wandered in off the street . |
| 22 | They claimed to have killed up to 200 government soldiers , especially in the provinces of Chalatenango , Morazan and Usulutan where fighting had been fiercest , and to have " neutralized " the main Ilopango air base near the capital , San Salvador . |
| 23 | She happened to have dropped in to Charles 's to leave some shopping on her way over here . |
| 24 | On the other hand , there are philistines who apparently believe that all new ideas , no matter how subtle , can be conveyed in the terms they happened to have picked up at their mother 's knee , and reject any attempt to expand the language into areas beyond the nursery . |
| 25 | Sweet was found shot through the head at the roadside beside his grey Ford Escort , which appeared to have run out of petrol . |
| 26 | However , a touch of decadence appeared to have set in by then , in that the tough space bar of Star Wars ( universally recognized as a genre reference to saloon bars in Westerns where it was unwise to order sarsaparilla ) had given way to the court of Jabba the Hutt , full of twitching , pulsating creatures in perpetual motion but lacking menace or much humour . |