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Rex Posted 19 years ago
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To have the results soon

0Some recent media reports suggested Mr Woolmer, 58, may have been injected with snake venom before he died. 02br
00"It is not snake venom," deputy commissioner of police Mark Shields, who is heading the investigation, said. 02br
00Pathology and toxicology tests were nearly complete and police hoped to have the results soon, Mr Shields said. 02br
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00Mr Woolmer was killed in his Kingston hotel room the day after his side lost to Ireland in the cricket World Cup. 02br
00Mr Shields said speculation about poisoning was "causing a lot of distress" to Mr Woolmer's family in South Africa. 02br
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00What is the meaning of 'police hoped to have the results soon' ?02br
00Does it mean the police couldn't get the report as yet though the investigations were almost completed?02br
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0 The police are waiting for the results to come from the laboratory, and expect them imminently.02br
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00The investigations seem far from being complete.0-
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0G'day Rex,02br
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00Police hoped to have the results (conclusions) of the tests soon.02br
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00These results will show what type of toxins were present in the body.02br
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00See ya02br
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00Stannum0-
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0 I got two contrasting answers. I am a bit confused. I don't know which is the correct answer.02br
00I just want to know the nature of this sentence.02br
00Is it a perfect infinitive sentence? I doubt it.0-
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0 Hi Rex02br
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01i00To have02i00 is a present infinitive; 01i00to have had02i00 is a perfect infinitive.02br
00CB0-
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0 Yes, I know to say something like 'to have eaten' or 'to have bought' is perfect infinitive. As you wrote 'to have had' is perfect infinitive.02br
00So here is a simple infinitive sentence.0-

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