Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] have be [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amis has only three definite things in his life ; his skills , his van , and his career plan , and all of them seem to have been taking a beating over the past few weeks . |
| 2 | Would you prefer to have been born a man ? |
| 3 | She appeared to have been holding a makeshift icepack to the side of her head and a couple of the cubes had skidded out of reach and begun to melt , almost as if she 'd been in too much of a hurry to stretch over for them . |
| 4 | Alex Household had been excellent in the part , but , in retrospect , he seemed to have been giving an actor 's interpretation of a man fifteen years older than himself . |
| 5 | The last time he had prayed he appeared to have been granted a few more minutes before termination . |