Example sentences of "[vb past] have been [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plan A almost fell at the first fence as Trippy and the rest of the squat seemed to have been having an end-of-season sale in Trippy 's medicine chest . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Once again Saddam Hussein appeared to have been given an 11th-hour chance to stop the slaughter ; once again , the powerful American-led military coalition was crouched , set to pounce . |
| 4 | The last time he had prayed he appeared to have been granted a few more minutes before termination . |
| 5 | The Victorian block of flats where Christine Mills lived had been painted a dark green a decade ago and the wood of the frames now showed through in parts , black and rotten . |