Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ People were apologising for having to vote against us , ’ sighed Freddie Emery-Wallis , the Tory leader of the council for 17 years . |
| 2 | … with GCSE we 're plumping for having an external examiner to come into school , because the school years ago did a Mode 3 CSE , where all the kids put up an exhibition . |
| 3 | When you 've been having a few beers , and clowning around having a bit of a larf , and then you go onstage and sing earnest , sensitive songs full of emotion and heartbreak and loneliness , do you ever feel like fakes ? |
| 4 | According to this argument , the theory we are looking for has got to be the kind of theory that seems implausible to our limited , Earth-bound , decade-bound imaginations . |
| 5 | But now Blackburn moving forward looking for has gone , four minutes late |
| 6 | Both young men then glanced at each other , clamming up in some embarrassment as they recalled that the fortune they were at this moment vying for had been lost by Benedict Beckenham , for the story of the will was naturally common knowledge among his intimates . |
| 7 | That is information I am passing on having received no illuminated address from manufacturers for helping peppermint sales to rise dramatically . |
| 8 | The Commission and the applicants in the main proceedings considered that the genuine link which was required to exist between the ship and the flag state under the Conventions of 1958 and 1982 did not give the member states the power to enact their own laws with regard to flagging without having regard to the requirements of Community law . |
| 9 | Do you think it 's worth writing to Has anybody else any thoughts about ? |
| 10 | In an age when sin and madness were so strongly associated , the only reason for confessing to having been insane would be that complete recovery showed divine forgiveness of whatever sin had caused the madness in the first place ; and this is the reason advanced by the two mediaeval authors who admit to having been mad , Margery Kempe and Thomas Hoccleve . |
| 11 | They are the anxieties of our times , born of the idea that the individual must in one way or another ( any damned way , as a matter of fact , even confessing to having been abused as a child ) express his uniqueness and fulfil his potential . |
| 12 | Kim had been sentenced to death at her trial in April 1989 after confessing to having planted a bomb on a South Korean airliner which disappeared near the coast of Burma in November 1987 with the loss of all 115 passengers and crew [ see p. 35905 ] . |
| 13 | That means we are looking at having to dispose of around two and a half million tons of wet sewage every year by the end of the century , and the law says that we will not be able to dispose of it at sea . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ He was bucking at having a chaperon at that age . |
| 15 | If your ferret continues to fail to reappear another possibility must be considered — that someone else passing by has recovered it for you ! |
| 16 | when I was wondering about having teletext or not ? |
| 17 | So much easier going for Have n't got a hundred and thirty for rent . |
| 18 | It concluded more patients were being treated and waiting times had been cut . |
| 19 | They can then use them for withdrawals without worrying about having to take all their money at once . |
| 20 | ‘ We 'd bought our house in Wimbledon on what I 'd saved up from all my other work , ’ said Crawford , ‘ and then I had to start worrying about having to pay the mortgage . |
| 21 | All that bottled-up vitriol for the man he 'd been waiting for had actually been for her . |
| 22 | Because of her age , she had a one in 180 chance of carrying a baby with Down 's , yet she was not unusual in deciding against having an amniocentesis . |
| 23 | ‘ As did Dickens himself , ’ announced Sir Thomas , turning round having recovered some of his composure . |
| 24 | And edging round the corner , checking all ways , there was a parked car , there 's a van parked the opposite side of the road so anything turning in had to come over into my , the path of me |
| 25 | Nigel was , by this time , unable to do much in the way of hulking and heaving , owing to having suffered from the fashionable slipped disc eighteen years earlier , which still had to be watched . |
| 26 | Except in those countries such as Ireland , Greece and Portugal , where the benefits of Federalism are largely measured in terms of the largesse it produces for them , greater comprehension of what is going on has brought growing anxiety about it . |
| 27 | Got ta be worth going to has n't it ? |
| 28 | But I am going to having said that I will tell you of the few accidents that have occurred over the years , and one of them was mine in the early days when I was learning th the full size removal job . |
| 29 | The PROFITBOSS ensures that resolving customer complaints and selling on have first claim on his own personal time and attention . |
| 30 | So assu you 're talking about , well supposing that 's grown , it may be four thousand , so you 're talking about two thousand tr vehicles in the interview direction over twelve hours . |