Example sentences of "to have [vb pp] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would have done better to have given everything to the boy outright , but it is my belief he did not want Benedict to lose touch with his godmother . ’ |
| 2 | He seemed to have hated her on sight , yet he knew nothing about her , except that she bore a passing physical resemblance to Isabelle . |
| 3 | Example 44 is from ‘ Vissi d'arte ’ in Tosca at a point where the orchestra plays the melody ( small notes ) while the singer weaves a web of narration in different ways — reciting , joining the orchestral melody , forming a decorative counter-melody , etc. — all within the space of a few bars : There is great skill here , yet nobody seems to have recognized it for what it really is — the solution for preserving melodic and formal unity while at the same time using words with freedom and flexibility . |
| 4 | Yeoman described and illustrated it in an article in the Gentleman 's Magazine in March 1748 , and is known to have erected one at Northampton . |
| 5 | Just the odd word here and there , like ‘ horrendous ’ , ‘ brutal ’ , ‘ cold-blooded ’ or ‘ dangerous ’ , had filtered through the screen that seemed to have erected itself around him . |
| 6 | The section on industry was written as though Peter Lilley was going to retain his post : to have spiced it with ideas would have given the game away . |
| 7 | Someone claimed to have heard him on the radio from Darwin — but it was always someone at a third hand remove ; someone who had heard it from someone who had heard it from someone . |
| 8 | ‘ We were rather angry in the beginning to have heard it off the radio . |
| 9 | He claimed to have heard it from the lips of Raisa , and swore its truth . |
| 10 | At the start of the campaign , constituency candidates were almost invisible to the electorate : very few electors claimed to have heard anything about them . |
| 11 | Then one day Kirsty met an old friend who happened to have consulted me in the past for regression therapy . |
| 12 | And he thinks you and Masha ought to have consulted us on Summit . ’ |
| 13 | However , if the settlor may benefit on the occurrence of one or more of the following events he will still be deemed ( TA 1988 , s685(2) ) to have divested himself of the property : 1 . |
| 14 | It was not a pleasant emotion , but it was a powerful enough one to have sustained him in the search when evidence was lacking . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She had at times , almost as if it were a comfort , at least something accustomed , run through the fruitless litany of remorse : I ought not to have tolerated his infidelities , I ought to have stopped it at the start , I have colluded with his depravity , it is all my fault . |
| 17 | ( None of his half-brothers seems to have received anything like it . ) |
| 18 | What 's worse , it seems to have blinded him to the facts of Liverpool history . |
| 19 | The sale of beer by the gaoler in late eighteenth-century Britain was apparently universal — Howard called it the ‘ tap ’ and seems to have regarded it as a necessary evil . |
| 20 | Otherwise , it seems to have regarded it as a matter of political judgment . |
| 21 | Labour Front-Bench Members seem to have committed themselves to a single currency despite the fact that some of their Back-Bench supporters continue strongly to oppose it , although they are having difficulty with the question whether a European central bank would be independent . |
| 22 | Quinn then seemed to have won it for City with a 51st-minute header but Steve Whitton levelled again from the penalty spot . |
| 23 | Australian DJ Brian White told his listeners that a drunken journalist had approached Kylie after she had been presented with an award and asked her if she felt ashamed to have won it in a room full of so many talented people . |
| 24 | The headache appeared to have resolved itself with analgesic . |
| 25 | Presumably he thought she ought to have let him into her room to make love to her ! |
| 26 | Those who have not inherited their money , unlike the Queen , Sally Burton and Linda McCartney , seem to have earned it from sex . |
| 27 | The place was originally built in 1880 and they 're only the third people to have owned it since then . |
| 28 | As yet he was n't used to the title ; indeed , he was perhaps the first to have addressed him as such . |
| 29 | ‘ He seems to have surrounded himself with every comfort ; but that is hardly surprising , if he has stayed here all the week for ten years . ’ |
| 30 | Her job seemed to have carried her into ever deeper waters , for now she was very definitely embroiled in Luke 's intention to see Rob safely married and out of danger of any possible distraction from the female staff . |