Example sentences of "to have [vb pp] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The headache appeared to have resolved itself with analgesic . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | ( e ) the vulnerability or otherwise of the target 's board ( the offeror will particularly focus on the board 's achievements and also on any areas where individual directors could be said to have advantaged themselves at the expense of the company ( eg golden parachute arrangements ( see para 18.5.12 below ) ) ; |
| 7 | Steve Platt seems to have caught himself in a dialectical contradiction ( ‘ Not paying , not voting ’ , 8 May ) . |
| 8 | The pope seems to have confined himself to insisting on the prohibition of lay investiture . |
| 9 | Lyn was up 7–1 ( ! ) to Brann away and looked to have saved themselves with three minutes to go — but they relaxed to early and got two late , late goals against them and thus won 7–3 , a goal to little and was relegated . |
| 10 | This figure also illustrates that other interest , in problems which scarcely seem to have presented themselves to sculptors in the rest of Greece : alike in the patterns discoverable in the pull and hang of clothes , and in the relation of clothes to the body beneath . |
| 11 | Edward , who appeared to have detached himself from the proceedings , stared out of the window . |
| 12 | I seem to have surprised myself by getting well ahead with this and I outline current plans below . |
| 13 | Happily , happily the statement of faith does seem to have commended itself to a much larger number of presbyteries and kirk sessions and many indeed hundreds hundreds took the trouble to offer amendments and improvements to it . |
| 14 | Snow Queen : Winter-sports fan Queen Sirikit of Thailand is said to have modelled herself on our own Elizabeth II |
| 15 | Only then will I be able to help you get out of this mess you seem to have got yourself into . ’ |
| 16 | For a scheme which was claimed to take independent financial advisers out of the power of insurers , this is an ironic situation for Fimbra to have got itself into . ’ |
| 17 | Instead of staying with me as he 'd planned , he rents this ancient pile , miles from anywhere , just so he can keep an eye on this stupid female who seems to have got herself into all sorts of trouble over a piece of land — ’ |
| 18 | A law which came into force on March 1 required all yakuza groups to register themselves with the local authorities as criminal organizations , so that they could be better supervised ; in practice , most were reported to have re-formed themselves as limited companies instead . |
| 19 | This foolish lad was said to have gorged himself on an entire goose one Christmas Eve and , upon staggering home , was robbed and murdered . |
| 20 | The attempt on his life , in which he is understood to have injected himself with a drug overdose , was his third since his arrest . |
| 21 | Unlike history , the ‘ new ’ geography would appear to have rid itself of imperialist associations . |
| 22 | Otto 's brother-in-law King Athelstan appears to have called himself by a variety of high sounding titles , emperor ( if any of the documents are genuine ) and basileus , the Greek word for king and part of the official title of the Byzantine emperor ( though it is not clear whether the English realized this ) . |
| 23 | You seem to have styled yourself as a knight in shining armour for her , and I admit she makes a rather sweet damsel in distress , but — ’ |
| 24 | He is reported to have invited himself to lunch with the Mayor of Bodmin , but firstly asked his worship for a gallows to be erected for a hanging . |
| 25 | She thought that Elizabeth was foolish to have married a silent countryman and to have condemned herself to a life of boredom , and that she should have known better . |
| 26 | At the moment of writing , Labour seems to have lumbered itself with a system in which thode entitled to nominate — Labour MPs — will have no reliable means of guessing whether they are wasting their nominations on a no-hoper . |
| 27 | In fact , he seems to have contented himself with only forty new suits per annum and an unlimited supply of underwear and shirts . |
| 28 | She , who had always pulled the strings , to have found herself in this position . |
| 29 | Held , dismissing the appeal , ( 1 ) that either the mother as donee of the power of attorney had possessed sufficient general understanding and capability to have satisfied herself regarding the purport and effect of the transfer document and had failed to do so , or she had lacked ordinary competence and capacity , in which case the defendant , as donor , could not be allowed to repudiate the transfer to an innocent third party ; that , if the case was that the defendant had failed to inform the donee of the power of attorney , that lack of care also precluded him from relying on her ignorance of the power ; and that , therefore , the fact that the mother had been tricked into signing the transfer document without reading it , was not sufficient to sustain a plea of non est factum ( post , p. 679A–F ) . |
| 30 | But are there electoral advantages for the opposition to have declared themselves for PR ? |