Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [adv] [conj] [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | I opened it , and I got my answer , and it set me thinking afresh and seeing clearly where I had formerly been blind . |
| 2 | ‘ Who is he ? ’ he kept repeating over and over again , stony-faced and disbelieving even when I had told him the truth . |
| 3 | Curtis came in wearing a shabby , fawn mackintosh and looking exactly as he had done the night before . |
| 4 | erm Take Poll Tax , for example , I can imagine a previous incumbent of Number Ten shrilly demanding that the spread of tax across the country should be done on a one off basis and charging forward and she 's introduced it , and look what a bag of worms that 's turned out to be . |
| 5 | Even if I can get rid of the the tour operators erm or put somebody like onto because we got up and running now and I have n't got anyone to deal with it |
| 6 | This is a very popular design , but unfortunately many varieties of fuchsia do not press well , turning brown and fading even before they have been removed from the press . |
| 7 | And learning together as we 've been reminded more than once than this morning engages us all irrespective of age , irrespective of experience it engages everyone and it 's worth emphasising that the quality of learning does not depend upon the size of a congregation ! |
| 8 | As usual each one said something different , so I began timing my contractions and breathing deeply as I 'd practised . |
| 9 | There was a danger of people having short memories , and forgetting even that they had taken part in the war … |
| 10 | Wanda stole a half-bottle of Latvian double kümmel from her father 's extensive cellar and we took it to a little bridge on the outskirts of the village where we sat and talked , being careful to hide the bottle when anyone passed by but sipping away until we had finished the lot . |
| 11 | Every time that Sartre asserts the enveloping movement of the historical process , while adding emphatically that he has yet not proved that such a totalization exists , he must always simultaneously introduce a counterstructure of repetition , so that his argument seems to fluctuate , like the groups that he describes , ‘ in a state of perpetual detotalisation ’ ( I , 579 ) . |
| 12 | She knew what this man was , knew he was capable of raiding hearts just as easily as nightclubs , yet here she was all but melting away because he 'd touched her ! |