Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] have [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The artists in the show were a young and academic group , many completing or having recently gained postgraduate qualifications . |
| 2 | Sick with longing for his wife , Diana , and worn out with the public issues of doctoring that had apparently lost her to him , he had agreed . |
| 3 | The letter was written in a sprawling hand , writing that had once undergone the discipline of copperplate , but long ago broken loose from its restrictions and now spread , thick and unguarded , over the page . |
| 4 | Their day , however , had not been that good ; they had put in many hours of searching and had only made two finds of any note . |
| 5 | Employees have often found their work with new machines less physically demanding and have often regarded it as more skilled . |
| 6 | A spokesman for Upjohn said that the writs were the result of allegations that the company was lying and had deliberately withheld information about Halcion from the authorities . |
| 7 | Gradually Adam would discover where and how each woman liked to be touched , and he would change his techniques to suit her , then move on to something that she was n't expecting or had never experienced . |
| 8 | Since the Government first introduced road humps in 1981 , traffic engineers in too many councils have shown naked hostility to the idea of traffic calming and have completely set their face against the idea of road humps . |
| 9 | The company says it recognises the problems publicans are facing and has already halved the fines . |
| 10 | The software houses that have been slow to see the way the wind was blowing and have hardly started recasting their applications for Unix . |
| 11 | Wildebeest movements follow , at a distance of a few days , the pattern of rainfall ; but they only keep moving so long as rain is falling or has recently fallen within the area scanned by their senses . |
| 12 | This is a severe example of a kind of reviewing that has consistently created a line of demarcation between British and European ( or American ) taste . |
| 13 | The State Law and Order Restoration Council ( SLORC ) , the country 's ruling military junta , had prevented the Assembly from convening and had subsequently frustrated attempts by the NLD to establish a government . |
| 14 | The Minister tabled the statutory instrument when the House was not sitting and has just delivered a speech lasting 40 minutes . |
| 15 | Simon has now cut right down on the amount of time he spend playing and has also undergone treatment from his doctor . |
| 16 | And that 's I ca n't help thinking that 's really got quite some way away from the original idea . |
| 17 | Unlike its predecessor , the standing committee will continue working but has already felt able to recommend a small increase in the target number of places at medical schools . |