Example sentences of "[coord] have [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the three of them had been together in the kitchen , the infant Camille crawling round with jam on her face and fingers , he had sat in a state of sullenness bordering on rage or had conspicuously moved about preparing food for himself , knowing quite well that his dinner was cooking in the oven . |
| 2 | Catherine , who was born in Middlesbrough , trained at Newcastle and has just returned from working in Australia . |
| 3 | The Dovercourt branch of the National Association for the Care and Rehabilitation of Offenders has volunteered to carry out the work free of charge and has even joined in raising funds . |
| 4 | I am delighted that Haringey councillor Ian Willmore has rediscovered the problems of Tottenham and has even taken to pondering the question of which candidate for the Labour leadership is best equipped to tackle these problems ( Letters , 24 April ) . |
| 5 | A strong sense of regional identity characterises the Boards and has undoubtedly assisted in breaking down the traditional divisions between capital and labour . |
| 6 | He had added two new candidates , the Acanthiza ewingi and the Strepera arguta , to the list of native Tasmanian species , making a total of 12 , four of which he had already named from specimens sent to him before he left England , and had now succeeded in seeing all of these alive in their native habitat . |
| 7 | I thought that his appearance meant he had really been suffering very much , longing for me to give up my work , and had only refrained from asking me to do so out of respect for my ‘ rights ’ . |
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| 9 | Started off giving er sort of talks at er no charge at all to who could n't afford it and have now expanded into giving talks on a commercial basis to various companies . |
| 10 | ‘ You know , ’ he said , raising his head , ‘ I 've been reading these reports concerning the IRB for the past two years , and have occasionally succeeded in extracting useful information from them . ’ |
| 11 | Mr Prince made his mark ‘ re-photographing ’ snippets from magazine ads , but has lately advanced to painting monochrome canvases inscribed with the texts of mistold jokes . |
| 12 | Just before leaving France in 1940 he had given a final dinner party at the Ritz in Paris to members of his unit , but had inadvertently left without paying the bill . |
| 13 | Murder was to make him something he had always suspected he might be , but had never dreamed of becoming — interesting . |