Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] have [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I appear to have been writing for years , and yet not one sentence has been completed . |
| 2 | But what I thought and what I believed had been moving further and further apart in the weeks since my father had died . |
| 3 | I seem to have been blathering on and on . |
| 4 | Yet so far I seem to have been treating nothing worse than chicken pox and ‘ flu . |
| 5 | Chairman of my all of the offices or er tremendous amount of work which has gone into the local report to the Committee , er but also to the tremendous amount of work which has been done behind the scenes which I know has been going on with er that is quite good for the officers erm looking at the budget er i in the line with what actually saying for them . |
| 6 | Jessamy suddenly grew tired of the silly games that everyone seemed to have been playing with her lately . |
| 7 | A 17,000-foot volcano called Nevada del Ruiz , which seems to have been slumbering off and on for the past four hundred years , erupted and melted the snow and ice which covered most of its upper reaches , giving rise to an estimated seventy-five million cubic yards ’ mudslide . |
| 8 | The event was sponsored primarily by Lothian Leyland Daf , Leyland Daf and Econ which combined have been supplying vehicles to the Regional Council over many years . |
| 9 | Top left represents SQL life cycle tools , which are tools which have has been delivering for the last three years which address each of the needs of the entire project life cycle . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I , I do n't think Mr 's actually got any very reasonable criticisms at all , and we must again say , as we often do to Conservatives now , who do you think 's been running the country for the last fourteen or fifteen years ? |
| 12 | Marius Steen , the giant who seemed to have been looming over his life now for a week was about to be confronted . |
| 13 | Their clothes were an abrasive barrier between them , and her hands were as urgent as his as she peeled off the same black dress she seemed to have been wearing for the past century . |
| 14 | Deep inside she seemed to have been waiting like some long-ago damsel in distress , waiting for her knight to rescue her . |
| 15 | Almost at once Ruth felt as if she were sliding into a dream ; the glade vanished behind them , and soon she seemed to have been walking this path all her life , through the vista of trees , with the tip of Fand 's spear faintly gleaming , and Adam ahead of her , treading like a king . |
| 16 | She claimed to have been shopping with a boyfriend at the time . |
| 17 | This may in fact may have been the prime interest of most of those gathered at Enham , who seem to have been attending something very like a French peace meeting . |
| 18 | In fact , ever since the beginning of the year you seem to have been toying with the idea of making a major career move or change of residence and what transpires sometimes between October 29 and November 3 should enable you to rebuild and reshape your life — and the past with all its traumas and dramas will be placed in their true perspective , if not forgotten altogether . |
| 19 | You seem to have been doing rather well out of those . ’ |
| 20 | GEMINI You seem to have been concentrating more on group than individual efforts lately . |
| 21 | You seem to have been avoiding me since lunch . ’ |
| 22 | Erm which would give you some contact with erm , er you know people who 'd er er just come out of prison or , or you know had been serving some sort of sentence or other , you know , maybe not a custodial one or something . |
| 23 | Er as a result of the success we 've now got to go back and revisit it , I mean Ian you know has been leading in from from this office er and that it 's the person contact which counts for so much . |
| 24 | Are there aspects of training that you find to have been missing or superficial now that you have had the chance of putting your technical skill to the test ? |
| 25 | ‘ Well , Mrs Carrow , I did n't want to bother you but there 's been a man down there the last few mornings , who seems to have been watching us . |
| 26 | In 1910 the Executive decided that Law , who seems to have been suffering from nervous exhaustion , should be dismissed and sent Sir J. C. Compton Rickett to break the news to him . |
| 27 | the second one is that er we want to make sure that the policies you do have are doing the job that they were initially designed to do , and it 's thirteen years since you er took out the policy |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She appeared to have been eating . |
| 30 | ( ‘ We seem to have been crowning her for a whole year . |