Example sentences of "to have [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | for their part , the British did not see the Canadian proposal as much of a compromise , and indeed seemed already to have given up on the conference . |
2 | After four years ' hard labour , Xerox Corp is understood to have given up on its Ventura Software Inc desktop publishing software business and put the San Diego company on the block . |
3 | Celia kept slipping and Liza kept telling herself she was ridiculous to have given in to the child . |
4 | The site is particularly important because it is one of the few such castles to have developed out of an earlier Norman stone-built ring-work fort . |
5 | She seemed to have jumped up from nowhere . |
6 | He played only 95 full games for Arsenal and is now peddling the last of his talent at Exeter , where he 's rumoured to have fallen out with manager Alan Ball . |
7 | Do you know the theory that Louisa Musgrove ought to have fallen out of a gig , but Jane Austen could not bear it because of poor Mrs Lefroy ? … |
8 | The same applies to SCSI and ESDI type drives , for which cacheing controllers are available , although ESDI seems to have fallen out of favour recently , so they may be difficult to find . |
9 | Since then prices were estimated to have fallen by about 50 per cent . |
10 | US donations are believed to have fallen off in part as a result of the organization 's opposition to the Gulf War . |
11 | The impact of the big price appears to have spilled over into Sotheby 's yesterday where a Timurid brass jug inlaid with gold and silver , dating from 1495-96 , was bid to £60,500 against an estimate of £8,000 to £12,000 . |
12 | he has problems with the e-marker , and needs , especially , to hear many of the words he misspells pronounced clearly while he is looking at them , and to have pointed out to him the parts of the word that correspond to the various sounds . |
13 | It is known that he wished to stay in the Government and would have liked to have pressed on with the reform of prisons . |
14 | The vessel was reported to have travelled on to Aden where , according to a UNHCR official , some 62,000 Somali refugees were housed in camps . |
15 | The MGN chairman , Sir Robert Clark , is believed to have flown back from Bermuda for a board meeting but board member Lord Hollick , a Labour peer , stayed abroad ski-ing . |
16 | He added , however , that it was said to have broken up without achieving anything . |
17 | Peter Storm seems to have broken out of its slightly down-market image and has brought out the Microlite Mountain jacket ( £105 ) using its own breathable and waterproof MVT coating . |
18 | The Great Plague of London is said to have broken out in 1665 in a marshy district known as the Seven Dials , and it was especially prevalent along the old river Fleet . |
19 | Peace was alleged to have broken out in the civil war or scrum called the Labour Party , creationism was adjudged not acceptable in Little Rock , Arkansas , schools , the Advanced Passenger Train ran with no passengers aboard to prove how advanced it was in every way except actually working , and the Soviet mission to the UN sued New York for better protection . |
20 | The talks were reported to have broken down on Jan. 21 over the issue of the withdrawal of JNA forces from areas of Croatia not under UN protection , although both sides affirmed their commitment to the ceasefire . |
21 | Fortunately , Luke 's anger seemed to have evaporated along with the steam that surrounded them . |
22 | Her vision of inter-governmental European co-operation within a wider ‘ Atlantic ’ framework seemed to have won out over schemes for more radical co-operation . |
23 | And although followed diligently by Mr Jones along many a fascinating track he seems to have won out in the end and disappeared from view . |
24 | The improvements made in the machines to date do not seem as though they ought to have added up to much , but they appear to have allowed the crossing of a psychological threshold , after which a rich harvest of human error becomes accessible . |
25 | The only major event of the campaign , the call by Michel Rocard for a political ‘ big bang ’ on the Left to allow the creation of a new , broad based , social democratic party , appears to have fizzled out for the time being . |
26 | ‘ That 's a hell of a burden to have carried around with you all this time , ’ Luke said feelingly . |
27 | KENNETH Clarke appears to have dropped out of the smart betting for the succession to Mrs T , no doubt because he has been landed with the mucky end of the Cabinet stick . |
28 | She happened to have dropped in to Charles 's to leave some shopping on her way over here . |
29 | The doctor was too young to have come over in the last war . |
30 | Clearly Helen has looked for ‘ explanations ’ to help her deal with such a painful experience , and the one she seems to have come up with is that she was picked on for the way she looks . |