Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [vb pp] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er policy I twelve I do n't think has caused us any particular problems in Skipton which is where the main office developments have been er taking place , I think I would reiterate some of the comments |
| 2 | And although it may be bad for a girl of that age to have sex , I can honestly say that it does not appear to have caused me any lasting harm , either emotionally or physically . |
| 3 | What she did n't know was quite what life on a mission station would be like or how she would adjust to it , though it does n't appear to have given her any sleepless nights . |
| 4 | At 85 , Swanton can claim to have seen it all , including those dire days in the mid-6o 's when the county game was in such a mess . |
| 5 | I can not claim to have read it all but it seems massively comprehensive , and certainly useful for libraries . |
| 6 | I would like to have told them both that on that occasion the crack had sailed over my head . |
| 7 | Notice that for him to be able to say this he does not have to have observed his own behaviour . |
| 8 | He does not seem — and this is a crazy thing to say in the face of his beautiful verse , to appear ungrateful for it — but I say it , he does not seem to have inhabited his own experience . |
| 9 | She had set out with the idea of doing good by visiting poor lonely Miss Grimes but she did not seem to have achieved anything much . |
| 10 | She believed herself to be ‘ pursued by a malign and inexorable fate ’ , which , although aided by her hasty , unrealistic plans , does seem to have dogged her latter years . |