Example sentences of "[verb] to have [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I appear to have been writing for years , and yet not one sentence has been completed . |
| 2 | Wilko was reported to have been looking at Ronnie earlier this season but nothing came of it . |
| 3 | At one time for example she was reported to have been racing around Melbourne in a brand new pink sports car . |
| 4 | In Kalimantan ( Borneo ) , fires believed to have been smouldering in underground coal seams since 1986 or even 1982-83 had now taken hold across many thousands of acres of secondary forest growth ( i.e. the re-growth after clearance ) , often fuelled by the debris from logging operations , and were approaching the primary rainforest of Kutai national park . |
| 5 | They seemed to have been stumbling through pitch blackness for hours now . |
| 6 | He seemed to have been moving for an immeasurable time . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He seemed to have been driving for ever . |
| 9 | Jessamy suddenly grew tired of the silly games that everyone seemed to have been playing with her lately . |
| 10 | Deep inside she seemed to have been waiting like some long-ago damsel in distress , waiting for her knight to rescue her . |
| 11 | The Emperor is supposed to have considered giving up the Province , and Seneca , who , as one of his advisers was well informed , is said to have been calling in his , or the Imperial , loans . |
| 12 | Architects are said to have been prowling on the island incognito gathering intelligence for their mission . |
| 13 | IBM top brass is said to have been meeting with Hewlett-Packard officials at various locations around the US over the last few days to lobby for their support and an announcement may now be imminent . |
| 14 | A man answering a description of Magee , who was knee-capped in Northern Ireland several years ago , was said to have been lagging behind the two terrorists as they ran from their gold-coloured Ford Granada getaway car , which they had abandoned in Charnwood Street , Derby , minutes after the shooting on Monday evening . |
| 15 | She was said to have been suffering from depression and her death was ascribed to suicide . |
| 16 | Despite the widespread feeling that there had been a victory for parental rights , many of the Dewsbury parents claimed to have been acting for the sake of their children . |
| 17 | Boucheron , who had been suspended from the PS at his own request in October 1990 , claimed to have been acting in the interests of the party . |
| 18 | She claimed to have been shopping with a boyfriend at the time . |
| 19 | All three are thought to have been working as bouncers . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The heaviest copper head from Ife weighs almost 7 kg so the Ife smiths seem to have been working at the limits of this technique . |
| 22 | Pitmen in Northumberland and Durham were working six or seven hours in 1765 but seem to have been working at least eight by the end of the century , as Whitehaven 's colliers had already been doing in 1765 . |
| 23 | They seem to have been missing in action , releasing a couple of singles off the last album without providing any back-up tours to promote them . |
| 24 | THE Princess of Wales is understood to have been objecting to two claims . |
| 25 | Emily Faithfull , young , confident and securely middle-class , appears to have been Operating from first principles rather than speaking or understanding the language of journeymen printers . |
| 26 | A more carefully prepared training programme and an easier tournament schedule have helped the world No.2 to win three important tournaments in recent months , whereas Le Moignan appears to have been struggling with her motivation . |
| 27 | On the other hand , the agent does not have to have been acting within the ordinary course of his own particular business or even within the normal course of business of his particular type of trade . |
| 28 | Above all , use was made of the great lake in front of the palace , the famous Étang des Carpes , where some of the fish were reputed to have been swimming since the days of Francis I. All sorts of pleasure boats were at the disposal of the guests , ranging from a Venetian gondola to a miniature frigate of the French navy — the latter the pride and joy of the Prince Imperial . |
| 29 | The first of such groups was Ketley 's Building Society known to have been operating in Birmingham in 1775 . |
| 30 | ‘ Mr C S Jones ( Lab ) , Leicester NW — Will the Government now publish the report on which Mr S J L Summerchild is known to have been working at the time of his death ? — The report has already been published as Cmnd. 4078 . ’ |