Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then one day Kirsty met an old friend who happened to have consulted me in the past for regression therapy . |
| 2 | It was not a pleasant emotion , but it was a powerful enough one to have sustained him in the search when evidence was lacking . |
| 3 | I ought to have stopped you in the beginning — I ought to have walloped you good and hard instead of hiding the things and pretending I did n't know anything about it . |
| 4 | It seemed to Julia to be the height of good manners to have greeted a stranger with apparent pleasure under such circumstances and then to have included her in the family teasing , but she wanted to make certain that they could forget their manners and talk freely to each other without having to bother about her . |
| 5 | He did n't appear to have seen her in the water and Rachel had the advantage of watching him unobserved as he strolled along the poolside , a towel slung around his neck . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd have loved to have seen her in the flesh . |
| 7 | ‘ Were n't you surprised to have seen him in the first place ? |
| 8 | Almost all of the higher earners and men with 10 or more partners have had oral sex with a woman , and it 's the men with a regular relationship and someone else on the side who are most likely to have done it in the past year . |
| 9 | In that case , the party whom the clause favours ( usually the seller ) will not be found to have incorporated it in the contract unless either it was in a contractual document signed by the other party or else reasonable steps had been taken to bring it to the attention of the other party . |
| 10 | With help from master decorator Renzo Mongiardino , who is known to have helped him in the past , Ortiz-Patiño should have little trouble showing off the rare editions , manuscripts and fine bindings first collected by his father ; his own Dutch and Spanish Old Master paintings ; English silver by Paul de Lamerie and the gold snuff boxes he has been collecting since 1956 . |
| 11 | This last item did much to restore the confidence that seemed to have deserted me in the previous few months . |
| 12 | But Blakelock had the best opportunity to do that , and he would n't need to have taken them in the first place . |
| 13 | My wife , Daphne , volunteered to stay and man — sorry , woman — the ramparts at home ; thus proving , not for the first time , she was far too bright to have married me in the first place . |