Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [prep] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , at the beginning of September , Prime Minister Giral was forced to resign by intense pressure from the Socialist and Communist Parties , whose leaders bitterly criticized what they saw as the Left Republicans ' incompetent handling of the Republican war effort , accusing them of having lost control of the situation . |
| 2 | When I made a television documentary that concluded that there was no evidence for nuclear fusion products , I received a letter from Martin Fleischmann alleging that there was a warrant issued in Utah for the arrest of the film crew , accusing me of having gained ‘ illegal access to the National Cold Fusion Institute ’ and of being a media person masquerading as a scientist . |
| 3 | When it disappeared from the catalogue and by chance I was offered a knighthood , I always said that the Queen , coming as she does from an angling family , was compensating me for having had my name taken out of Hardy 's catalogue . |
| 4 | 'I persuaded myself that I did n't want to introduce irrelevances into your investigation , when in fact I was protecting myself from having to relive traumas of the past . |
| 5 | The idea of reading The Faerie Queene in an armchair and then announcing oneself as having gained virtue was a largely foreign concept to Spenser 's brand of humanism . |
| 6 | If you have a policy for housing , or anything else for that matter , how about sharing it with the rest of us , right and until you come up with an alternative policy , do n't you start knocking us for having a policy which we are prepared to debate . |
| 7 | It has the advantage for believers of saving them from having to invent their own personal neurosis , and they gain from the social nature of religion rather than the purely private character of a personal neurosis . |
| 8 | As well as saving you from having to break the flow of your typing by tapping ‘ Enter ’ it also leaves the text on the screen in a flexible or ‘ unformatted ’ form . |
| 9 | She looks for no way to comfort herself except by degrading herself by having sex . |
| 10 | By concentrating on only the fastest of fast-moving consumer goods , they keep their stock at a minimum — often selling it before having to pay suppliers . |
| 11 | You despise me — so are n't you degrading yourself by having anything to do with me ? |
| 12 | It would be a long time before he stopped despising himself for having succumbed to a purely physical attraction , and that towards a woman he despised . |
| 13 | Where Buxton 's second-round score , put together in the worst of the weather , was an 81 , McKay had another 80 in which she was left kicking herself for having chipped through the green at the 295-yard 14th on her way to a six . |
| 14 | And my husband , although I 'm only very small and under five foot , my husband is thirteen stone and six foot two inches , so moving him about has been a great problem . |
| 15 | A few seconds later I was despising myself for having been in any doubt . |
| 16 | Quietly sipping champagne in a corner of the large marquee , Laura was just chiding herself for having over-reacted in such a feeble , juvenile way towards a man who could n't possibly be interested in her , when she looked up — and suddenly found Ross standing in front of her ! |
| 17 | ‘ What time is it ? ’ she asked , berating herself for having slept all night . |
| 18 | Lying in bed , she thought back over the conversation , blaming herself for having interfered in such a private matter . |
| 19 | Painting food colour directly on to icing and marzipan instead of kneading it in has a number of advantages . |
| 20 | And this is a way of doing it without having to , you know , log-in to er a specific tradition , but to invoke , sort of a wider , more general principles . |
| 21 | My mum was really upset because he was accusing her of having an affair with another man . |
| 22 | Freeman was particularly out to demolish Mead 's suggestion ( 1928 ) that Samoan society is characterized by values emphasizing uninhibited playfulness and peaceful co-existence , accusing her of having misunderstood Samoan society . |
| 23 | He was also extremely suspicious of Mosley 's first wife , Cynthia Curzon , accusing her of having Jewish blood in her veins . |
| 24 | He was accusing her of having the morals of an alleycat again , and she was tired of it . |
| 25 | The IRA statement of responsibility had incorrectly named another man , the brother of a well-known Belfast republican , as the victim of the shooting , accusing him of having a bizarre paramilitary career stretching for more than a decade . |
| 26 | Now , six months after an American biographer , Donald Spoto , did a hatchet job on Olivier , accusing him of having a homosexual affair with Danny Kaye , the key is to be removed from its resting place . |
| 27 | ‘ Are you accusing him of having a hand in my son 's death ? ’ |
| 28 | She stood there , in front of him , swinging the scarf in her right hand , accusing him of having failed to strangle her . |
| 29 | Although the speech was praised by white politicians and some black leaders , several radical blacks criticized the mayor , accusing him of having betrayed his black constituents . |
| 30 | The case arose from a magazine article accusing him of having revealed details of President Kurt Waldheim 's alleged Nazi past to an SPÖ conference in October 1985 . |