Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not think that the hon. Member for Edinburgh , Central , his hon. Friends or the majority of my hon. Friends would say that the Government were wrong , rather than giving no status to people who have been in this country for a number of years , to have given them exceptional leave to remain . |
| 2 | This , to use a definition of the American , Stanley Ellin , one of the writers to have given us short stories to equal any that have been written since crime and the short story met ( read his The Speciality of the House ) is any story so long as it deals with " that streak of wickedness in human nature " . |
| 3 | He was to have joined me this week , but his train met with an accident , so he 's been detained for a few days with an injured ankle . |
| 4 | He gave Tottenham Hotspur the title , I think , of the greatest club side ever in erm , British football , and they won erm , the double as everyone knows , in nineteen sixty one , the first English team to have won it this century . |
| 5 | Nor was it only their tenants who were resentful , but they also had to face envious glances at their lands from the laity , some of whom at any rate seem to have considered them suitable prey . |
| 6 | Mattox 's campaign presented her silence on this subject as an expression of guilt , although the drugs issue backfired on him in the final days of the campaign when witnesses claimed to have seen him smoking marijuana in the early 1970s , a claim which he vehemently denied . |
| 7 | But it would have been simpler to have done it that way I think . |
| 8 | Oh , then I ought to have done it last night . |
| 9 | Is this a temporary over-reaction by Germany 's friends , sour because their support for German unity seems to have brought them little solidarity now ? |
| 10 | They and the Carters were to have shared it that year with the computer analyst and his wife , but one of this couple 's children was involved in an accident and they had to cancel at the last minute . |
| 11 | This does not seem to have caused them undue concern . |
| 12 | Well , I 'm glad to have afforded you some amusement . |
| 13 | I ought never to have hugged you last night or said any of those things . ’ |