Example sentences of "he [vb -s] to have [been] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | He appears to have been the eldest child , with at least one brother , William . |
2 | He seems to have been a great romancer . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | He seems to have been a difficult patient . |
5 | Well , he seems to have been a bad lot , and maybe nobody will miss him , but I do n't like it . |
6 | He seems to have been a solitary child , happiest in his own company . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | He claims to have been the first to produce any . |