Example sentences of "have [verb] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I heard recently that Australia has come whooping out of the closet . |
| 2 | But he has made standing up to the teaching unions his thing . |
| 3 | We have become busier and more efficient and the productive with each passing decade , and this has meant cutting down on the time spent on more mundane activities . |
| 4 | She 'd stopped riding out with the first lot because of nausea on waking , and Tremayne , far from minding , continually urged her to rest more . |
| 5 | They 'd gone flying out of the door leaving her wide open to any sort of hurt . |
| 6 | It was not everyone who would have relished going off into the dark forest ; Lugh did not relish it at all , in fact . |
| 7 | They shuffle out to a soft rhythmic crunching underfoot , reminiscent of how the boots of Napoleon 's legions must have sounded trudging back through the Russian snows . |
| 8 | Another man would have gone away , would have pretended we were not there , would have stood looking up at the wall-plaques and the windows until we had gone safely away . |
| 9 | But this will have to involve levelling up to the more advantaged rather than levelling down to the lesser , although future benefits can be reduced so long as diminution is applied equally to both sexes . |
| 10 | He was taller than she remembered , more powerfully built , the angles of his face even harder and more menacing than she had recalled coming up in the lift . |
| 11 | We had stopped trailing around after the men in the left , contorting ourselves in the hope of receiving some grudging crumbs of approval . |
| 12 | In the end , the big woman with the cherries in her hat had dragged the now screaming child from his mother 's arms , pulling poor Edith along with her for a few steps until she had dropped sobbing on to the linoleum . |
| 13 | ‘ They had to come streaming out of the forests and down to the Bright Palace , in answer to the summons of their Lords … ’ |
| 14 | Vincent barely managed to keep his temper in check in the blast of this ‘ raw north wind ’ that had come howling in through the front door . |
| 15 | Three or four knights had come hastening in at the sound of their lord 's voice . |
| 16 | When the Gruagach had come storming down from the Northern Wastes and attacked Tara and stolen away the Wolfking 's son , Tara 's heir , the people of the half-world of the forest had vanished , afraid and timid . |
| 17 | I was lingering near the assembled bottles , wondering who on earth could have brought the Bourgueil , when I was joined by the man I had seen stepping out of the BMW . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's not without influence , though , ’ Rain said to Harbury whom she had found hanging around near the bar . |
| 19 | The only brush she possessed was the one she used for her make-up , and the only pencil the one she had found lying about on the sideboard . |
| 20 | He could hear people shouting in the distance and knew that they had gone chasing off in the opposite direction . |
| 21 | But when he had leapt off his horse to approach it the chest had sprouted legs and had gone trotting off into the forest , stopping again a few hundred yards away . |
| 22 | That was why Scano 's boy had risked going back to the base-man . |
| 23 | When you 've finished faffing around with the fonts , you can choose to either axe your disastrous experiment , or install it as a TrueType font itself . |
| 24 | And more especially now that we 've started raiding back against the MacIans and their friends . |
| 25 | Anneliese gave him a swift sisterly kiss , then glanced across at where the guests had started drifting over to the folk singers . |
| 26 | They had to get back to their dormitories before anyone awoke , but turning round , Endill saw lights had started coming on in the school . |
| 27 | Anybody in Tadcaster who knows where Karen Smith lives and this is not my idea but it 's a goody could you ring and tell us what she 's got hanging out on the washing line at the moment . |
| 28 | I have added a further £25 because I have appreciated holding on to the material for so long . |
| 29 | Do you know as you come in to Salisbury and you have to keep going on with the traffic , then it leads up to the bridge where the wa , where the river is . |
| 30 | ‘ We have to finish tidying up in the kitchen , sir . ’ |