Example sentences of "[pron] have [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One says he do n't think so , and someone else makes a crack about reggae , and I realize this gun I had pointing at her seems to have drooped like soft rubber , so I relax my arm and let it point to the floor . |
| 2 | How he managed to live with all I had going against him was an East Yorkshire miracle . |
| 3 | The only thing I had going against me was : I was black . |
| 4 | How he managed to live with all I had going against him was an East Yorkshire miracle . |
| 5 | What was that boy I had working for me , I 've forgotten his name ? |
| 6 | The thing is , it 's a vicious circle , it 's Catch 22 really , 'cos I used to have a good self-employed business , going painting and decorating and I used to have a good clientele and that and I found over the years that , when it became harder and harder to score and the prices rocketed and all that , it got out of hand , out of proportion , that I was spending more and more time off the job than I was on the job , looking round to get the stuff and I found I was unable to carry on working without the drug , because I just felt so bad and I could n't climb ladders and I thought I was a danger to myself and anybody else that I had working with me , y'know . |
| 7 | Er the housing issues mentioned was since I 've according to the petition |
| 8 | You 've talking about it choosing a , choosing a topic and changing topics . |
| 9 | They were charged that they did contrive , design and plot to murder MOIR NcILCHENICH widow of Ellister for mere avarice and covetousness to attain to her money which they supposed she had lying by her in her house and in pursuance of this plot did upon some day of April 1698 in dead time of night murder her by strangling her with her own belt and thereafter threw her body over a rock into the sea so that the deed was not discovered for some time . |
| 10 | He thought her pleasure in Florian 's win was for her once and future lover and , presumably , that in her euphoria she was going to let him jump this queue of men he had convinced himself she had waiting for her sexual favours . |
| 11 | I think what we will do , erm certainly a lot of concern was expressed at the last meeting that this er forum should should die er but I do n't think it will I think it is very simple , to set aside one meeting a year , devote it to cycles and invite the same people who have coming from the party . |
| 12 | What evidence do we have relating to French music of the late 17th and early 18th centuries in respect of ( 1 ) the persistence of the mensural system , notably concerning tempo relationships , ( 2 ) the tempo connotations of ‘ expressive ’ verbal directions , the so-called ‘ time-words ’ and ( 3 ) actual timings and metronome markings ? |
| 13 | Oh no he said , I said because they got a funeral on , he said that 's what we 've coming for , we 're coming to pick granddad up . |
| 14 | Things may change now but we 've working on that basis |
| 15 | I wonder how many people they have talking about dog crap . |
| 16 | It was a letter written by er erm , a sixteenth century woman to her husband , and again it had commenting on the language used . |
| 17 | OK , so Zacchaeus was clever , but that was about all he had going for him . |
| 18 | ‘ Why jeopardize what he had going for him by getting greedy ? |
| 19 | The developing influences around them had bearing on their futures ; there was evil and unhappiness in the air . |