Example sentences of "i [verb] [to-vb] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I appear to have been writing for years , and yet not one sentence has been completed . |
| 2 | I noticed in particular a large placard placed on the floor in a corner , which I assumed to have been presented to him by Montgomery Belgion , who had been a prisoner of war in Germany . |
| 3 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 4 | I seem to have been given the freedom |
| 5 | I seem to have been blathering on and on . |
| 6 | I seem to have been bombarded by your curiosity right from the start . |
| 7 | Yet so far I seem to have been treating nothing worse than chicken pox and ‘ flu . |
| 8 | ‘ Unfortunately ’ says the agent , ‘ I seem to have been outvoted . ’ |
| 9 | I had n't eaten since my snackette supper the night before and I was so hungry that I would have eaten almost anything , even a plate of my grandmother 's famously awful creamed ham and carrots , the only dish I know to have been inspired by vomit . |
| 10 | As M3 grew so fast in the early Eighties , its performance can hardly explain the reduction in inflation , which I believe to have been caused by very high and rising unemployment together with a very large and destructive appreciation in sterling . |