Example sentences of "he [vb -s] have [been] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He seems to have been a great romancer .
2 Edward Ellice , an MP for Coventry , said that he had been asked to accompany his friend Lord Elcho , and although he seems to have been a political ally of Elcho 's his view of Scott 's design was very different .
3 He seems to have been a difficult patient .
4 Well , he seems to have been a bad lot , and maybe nobody will miss him , but I do n't like it .
5 He seems to have been a solitary child , happiest in his own company .
6 Yet he claims to have been a late developer in many respects , a dreamy boy who grew up absorbed in cricket and poetry , still unaware , at Oxford in 1939 , of anti-Semitism in Germany .
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