Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] been [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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Deep inside she seemed to have been waiting like some long-ago damsel in distress , waiting for her knight to rescue her . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She claimed to have been shopping with a boyfriend at the time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | You seem to have been doing rather well out of those . ’ |
| 14 | GEMINI You seem to have been concentrating more on group than individual efforts lately . |
| 15 | You seem to have been avoiding me since lunch . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She appeared to have been eating . |
| 21 | ( ‘ We seem to have been crowning her for a whole year . |
| 22 | Not only had a much slower rate of fall , but are actually detached nineteen ninety one from what we know has been happening . |
| 23 | A foreigner who is stunningly attractive will readily upset the apple-cart of our preconceptions , as will a friend whom we discover has been slandering us behind our back . |
| 24 | Well , now the FADs are galvanised — on record , thanks to Fall producer Craig Leon , who transformed recent comeback single ‘ It 's Not What You Know ’ from a bitter mumble into a magnificent , eloquent tirade — but live , they appear to have been studying drama at summer school . |
| 25 | But nowhere were they more pronounced , and rather than fading as the economy developed they appear to have been becoming deeper in the immediate pre-war years . |
| 26 | They seemed to have been stumbling through pitch blackness for hours now . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The money 's mostly there , but the spirit in him seems to have been leaking away . |
| 29 | The Indian Supreme Court has ordered 212 factories to close because the pollutants they produce has been affecting the Taj Mahal . |
| 30 | Two Norfolk men were recently jailed for siezing a youth they thought had been stealing bicycles . |