Example sentences of "have [verb] [v-ing] [noun pl] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 But Mrs Collis has found raising funds for these services particularly hard in the past year .
2 Why did she have to keep crossing swords with that fiendish man ?
3 The Central Electoral Commission in Bucharest and the government , however , were said to have favoured holding elections with all parties participating .
4 George was sifting through the snapshot-sized photographs Maxim had taken identifying portraits of several people concerned with Resistance or Intelligence and mostly now dead .
5 ‘ I 've lost fledgeling birds like that before , ’ he said , ‘ even under escort . ’
6 In the past few years interferometers have displaced scanning spectrophotometers in many applications .
7 In Sweden the county councils ( which are responsible for health care ) have started awarding contracts to those health centres and hospitals that provide the right services at the right price .
8 ( Dustmen have started sueing householders for any negligence that causes them injury . )
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