Example sentences of "[pron] have [v-ing] " in BNC.

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1 I thought I 'd going down .
2 The problems I had getting Dawn used to my family were made worse for two reasons .
3 What a job I had getting him pulled out .
4 Right , a few problems yesterday , a forklift and trailer keys not being signed in and I had taking them home .
5 Complete Works is , in some ways , easier to use and incorporates some nice ideas , but the problems I had trying to link charts , table and spreadsheets together let it down in the end .
6 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 .
7 How he managed to live with all I had going against him was an East Yorkshire miracle .
8 The only thing I had going against me was : I was black .
9 How he managed to live with all I had going against him was an East Yorkshire miracle .
10 A large part of the fun I had testing this guitar through an amplifier came from not knowing what to expect .
11 The best time I had playing was in Africa , out in Zambia .
12 Nowadays I keep huge lists of every person , organisation and publication connected with birds , so I hope I 'll never again have the problems I had finding that owl .
13 People who do n't know what they 're doing can kill birds of prey — their weight is very delicately balanced , as you 've seen from the trouble I had finding the right flying weight for Dawn .
14 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 .
15 What was that boy I had working for me , I 've forgotten his name ?
16 Er the housing issues mentioned was since I 've according to the petition
17 Oh , it 's brilliant you know I mean er , I 've I 've telling him what I 've doing this week .
18 Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ?
19 Me , I 've tucking had it with the small place .
20 Oh , it 's brilliant you know I mean er , I 've I 've telling him what I 've doing this week .
21 Mind you , I 've gon na wear that out now , my leather bag are n't I ?
22 yes , so I 've giving him a , a cloth to go and rub it with
23 I 'm get I 've going to give you your milk and biscuits .
24 I have singing fishes .
25 ‘ I heard from a friend this morning — she 'd getting hitched to some chap in Northamptonshire who 's due to inherit his uncle 's title . ’
26 Mind you , I 'd feel now she 'd mucking up .
27 Nineteen year old Joseph from South London said he 'd been acting in self defence , and he was cleared of murdering Bob who 'd challenging him with a hammer when he found him slashing car tyres .
28 What money did you have coming in at that time in fact ?
29 Yeah , course I mean as a bat er pitched a bat on this is a beau a beauty but are there are rough spots which you 've helping the slow left arm , or help any spinner .
30 And so you 've going to see a solicitor , you know what assets you 've got , you know who your family and dependents are .
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