Example sentences of "to have [verb] [det] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were lucky , Mrs Carson declared , to have received such an invitation . |
| 2 | To have made such an equation would have been to create an idol : an item in the creation ( not this time a golden calf but a person ) would have been deified . |
| 3 | Judging from his stock , funerals must have held some position of importance to have merited such an impressive display of hatchments . |
| 4 | To have provided such an advance on existing theories is no mean achievement . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | He was lucky to have led such an ordered life . |
| 7 | The main parties were pleased to have excluded such an authoritarian figure from government and de Gaulle did not return to power for 12 years . |
| 8 | I would have given my right arm to have achieved such an agreement when I was Minister for Aviation between 1984 and 1987 . |
| 9 | On hearing of this from Dick Crossman , I said that to have lost such an opportunity was unforgivable ! |