Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police need little reminding that they have to find a very brutal and sick man fast . |
| 2 | The television was switched on , Omi started a new piece of crochet-work , Herr Nordern abandoned his statistics , Frau Nordern her reports , and Paul , boldly and half-truthfully announcing that he had finished his homework , joined Erika on the sofa to watch a good thriller on West German television . |
| 3 | He told the details to an incredulous audience , although tactfully leaving out the part about Steinmark 's base habits , merely suggesting that he had probably been taking a short cut across the line . |
| 4 | Not out of Steve , anyway , who was saying nothing much , only affirming that he had bashed Charley to save his mother ; he had ‘ guessed ’ where she was . |
| 5 | For there is no doubt that our prevailing intuitions about ourselves as agents , and a number of associated philosophical arguments about the concepts of choice , action and responsibility , have tended to make the case of individualism seem not merely strong , but so compelling that we have no option but to accept it . |
| 6 | Dr Sasaki had not looked outside the hospital all day ; the scene inside was so terrible and so compelling that it had not occurred to him to ask any questions about what had happened beyond the windows and doors . |
| 7 | I feel , rather than see , Moira suddenly remembering that she has an awful lot of things to do somewhere else . |
| 8 | She looked at him anxiously , obviously wondering if she 'd gone a little too far . |
| 9 | Are you really constantly reassessing where you 've been ? |
| 10 | Until she was sixteen they had been constantly moving and there had never been anyone left behind to pass on her address . |
| 11 | As he had passed her in the little hall this morning a tendril of her silky black hair had brushed his ruined cheek , and the smell of it had been so distracting that he had feared for his composure . |
| 12 | Helen asked no questions about Chris , only saying that it had been a lovely evening and Moira was still talking about the tinned peaches and jelly . |
| 13 | Not only that ; Mordecai was equally definite that he was merely doing as he had been instructed . |
| 14 | These she threw away , rightly assuming that whoever had requested such filthy pornography would be too embarrassed to complain about its non-arrival . |
| 15 | Gloucester opened negotiations with the dowager almost immediately , apparently claiming that he had been given custody of her and her land by the king , and by January 1473 the countess and her feoffees had agreed to make an estate to Gloucester in all the dower lands . |
| 16 | Gloucester opened negotiations with the dowager almost immediately , apparently claiming that he had been given custody of her and her land by the king , and by January 1473 the countess and her feoffees had agreed to make an estate to Gloucester in all the dower lands . |
| 17 | The external factors affecting your business are constantly changing and you have in order to survive to adapt to these external changes . |
| 18 | However , there were people there who were ‘ greatly desiring that she had been out of that country ’ , and she bustled off to York , where the Archbishop paid a man five shillings to lead her out of the town . |
| 19 | Michael Swinton watched her in silence as he had watched her before , only proffering as he had done once before a handkerchief which he had plainly also used as a paint rag . |
| 20 | Their calls are also very intricate , and the sounds of some of them , the young , sexually mature humpback males , are so haunting that they have become a best-selling record . |
| 21 | The cut may be made with little or no apparent awareness , the patient suddenly discovering that she has cut herself and at the same time experiencing a sense of relief . |
| 22 | The owner of the copyright in the computer program , suddenly realizing that he has rights with respect to the output generated from using the program , might attempt to interfere with the subsequent use of that output in the hope that he will be able to negotiate a fee for his permission . |
| 23 | No my friend 's in the trade I said they 're basically working but they 've got a halt on somewhere because they 've come back you 'll have to sort out the you 've got but er they 're only one ten |
| 24 | ‘ It looked all right , did it ? ’ she asked Morris again , perhaps forgetting that she had asked him once already . |
| 25 | One foggy night she lost her way and had to grope along the bank for some way finally realising that she had circled round and returned to the Halling side by mistake . |
| 26 | Just seeing if we 've got enough plates . |
| 27 | Surely you 're not suggesting that they had anything to do with his death ? ’ |
| 28 | Julia looked at David then and was a little surprised to see that he was not laughing as she had expected . |
| 29 | He was just checking that I had n't left for good , was glad that I had n't , and was that real coffee he could smell ? |
| 30 | It is n't , you can put anything up you like , the only illegality is not applying after you 've done it , and when you apply after you 've done it , all we can do is consider the planning reasons , not the fact that you did it without permission . |