Example sentences of "[v-ing] and have [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mother had telephoned her at the nurses ' home where she had been living and had asked her if she could come home . |
| 2 | Melissa , struggling to follow the staccato bursts of speech that punctuated their intake of food , was so fascinated by their mannerisms that more than once she lost the thread of what they were saying and had to beg them to speak more slowly , which they did with great good humour and shrieks of tinny laughter . |
| 3 | The improvements keep coming and have inspired him to draw up a four-point plan for Vets : |
| 4 | Soon , very soon , the classroom empties , only Heather and a coupla girls left , and Darren , who 's reading and has forgotten he 's supposed to be going home . |
| 5 | The boy genius had been singularly unforthcoming and had told her no more regarding his revolutionary schemes . |