Example sentences of "he [verb] to have [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides cooking , he seemed to have done most things , course after course . |
| 2 | He seemed to have missed all that somehow . |
| 3 | I blinked at Patterson but he seemed to have understood most of it . |
| 4 | It was disquieting , though , the way he seemed to have to make these excuses to himself , as if his conscience which he had , so he thought at the age of sixteen , successfully buried , had suddenly reawakened to plague him , not about the fundamentals of belief and morality but about such comparative trivialities as whether or not one should attend the church bazaar . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In her company he seemed to have shed some English drilling and become more American . " |
| 7 | Jose Miguel had been his usual model of self-effacing but steely efficiency and he seemed to have conjured another two birdies from the course without anyone noticing , although he too had dropped one shot . |
| 8 | And now , eighteen years afterwards , in a poorly attended North London church of hideous architecture and amid clouds of strong incense , he seemed to have regained that faith . |
| 9 | Multi-faceted influences have also clearly been poured into the Glebov melting pot , although he appears to have assimilated these with rather greater surety than Smolsky , who is very much the stylistic chameleon in comparison . |
| 10 | He appears to have had some sort of vision or dream , or perhaps both , in the precincts of a pagan temple to the Gallic Apollo , either in the Vosges region or near Autun . |
| 11 | He appears to have had some doubts about the establishment of the Protectorate , but accepted the reassurances of the Admiralty secretary , Robert Blackborne . |
| 12 | As for the actual designs , both he and his brother normally provided these themselves , but sometimes he continued the practice of contracting to build to those of other architects : the principal examples of this are Heythrop House , Oxfordshire ( 1705–8 ) , designed by Thomas Archer [ q.v. ] , and a number of buildings by James Gibbs [ q.v. ] , notably Ditchley House , Oxfordshire ( 1720–1 ) and All Saints church , Derby ( 1723–5 , later the cathedral ) — although in both cases he appears to have had some influence on the design as well . |
| 13 | He was detained in Newgate prison in Dublin in 1797 , but he appears to have taken little part in the 1798 rebellion and was not among the state prisoners incarcerated after its suppression . |
| 14 | The Dialogue is one of the pieces Purcell included in the Guildhall songbook : he seems to have compiled this manuscript for his young lady singing pupils , and several of the items in it show similar signs of revision and re-working . |
| 15 | He seems to have maintained this style to the end . |
| 16 | Books were few , but there was ample time to write ; as Coleridge , proficient in German after two months , put it : ‘ He seems to have employed more time in writing English than in studying German . ’ |
| 17 | His work on Glastonbury was assisted by research there , and in preparing his histories of English kings and bishops , the Gesta Regum and the Gesta Pontificum , both of which appeared in 1125 and were revised subsequently , he seems to have visited most of the major cathedrals and abbeys in England , examining their archives and listening to their oral traditions . |
| 18 | On the whole he seems to have found this an unrewarding period professionally as well as personally , which drove him , like George Somerset in A Laodicean , to indulge in ‘ an old enthusiasm for poetical literature ’ . |
| 19 | He seems to have taken this view because he was perturbed about the growing power and intransigence of the Soviet Union , whose diplomats he had encountered at the foundation conference of the United Nations in San Francisco in April 1945 . |
| 20 | The conduct of Carolus Junior ( he seems to have approved this epithet ) as king , casting retrospective light on his own formative years , suggests that his teachers vigorously instilled the lesson of wisdom 's utility . |
| 21 | On the contrary , he seems to have discouraged any notions of romance whatsoever . |
| 22 | They are trying to suggest that erm , somehow this year we 're cutting the police budget , he seems to have forgotten that last year when he was chairman of the police authority , a three hundred thousand pound cut , a genuine cut was made in the police authority budget , budgets were cut to make up to make up to that three hundred thousand , at the discretion of the Chief Constable , and to the credit of Mrs , and her other colleagues in the police committee , virtually no attempt was made to make political capital at that time , instead of which now , when all we 've seen is a request for the Chief Constable to defer proposed new spending , all of a sudden this is presented as a cut . |
| 23 | By 1794 he seems to have had enough of undisciplined emotion and of the actions of Robespierre , Rousseau 's fervent disciple ; and therefore rushed to embrace a new philosophy of reason and nonviolence . |
| 24 | In common with the men of Qumran , with whom he seems to have had some links , John saw washing with water as merely a preparatory rite , while the great cleansing and the gift of the Spirit lay in the future ( I QS : 9–1 of and 4:21 ) . |
| 25 | Furthermore , although the chronicler was well informed , and has something to offer on events in Mercia and Northumbria , he seems to have known most , or perhaps merely wished to say most , about what happened in southern England and East Anglia . |
| 26 | On overturning a Tory majority last time of 2,639 , he appeared to have taken all the Labour gain from the Liberal Democrats . |
| 27 | Now he claims to have abandoned this principle , apparently for no other reason than the pursuit of electoral palatability . |