Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Bishop finished by praying that what had been discussed would become an apostolic thrust of the diocese . |
| 32 | I once made the mistake you 're thinking of making and I 've never got over it . |
| 33 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 34 | As I saw it , they were either downmarket Wimpy bars or precious bistros where all you could hear were the sounds of the cutlery hitting the plate , and people would cough before speaking because they had n't said anything for such a long time , what with all the hush . |
| 35 | Such application may be made at the time when the order is made ; if not then applied for , the practice required , at least in some courts , is that the applicant should certify in writing that he has notified the other party of the intended application . |
| 36 | She could n't worry about breathing when she had to understand what fitzAlan was saying . |
| 37 | And he said she 'd done more damage with coughing than she had anything |
| 38 | In many parts of the world there are big restrictions on the way we trade , but the industry here has not been preventing from growing and we have a good environment in which to do business . |
| 39 | In an address to Charles II in 1681 the mayor proclaimed that ‘ We can truly say without boasting that we have neither in our town nor corporation one dissenter from the present government in church and state ’ . |
| 40 | He concluded by stating that he had been ‘ compelled to trench on political questions as well as economic — because I feel we are approaching a situation that is so grave that it compares with the War , when we were compelled to act together in self-defence ’ . |