Example sentences of "had [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chinese had dyeing down to a fine art as much as 5,000 years ago , and there are herbs grown today whose names record their colouring ability , such as dyer's-greenweed and dyer's-bugloss . |
| 2 | Fine views can be had looking down on the north side of the island to Porto da Cruz and the Penha d'Aguia ( the enormous flat-topped rock ) which stands between Faial and Porto da Cruz . |
| 3 | The paper had writing on . |
| 4 | " We took prints we had lying around and played with them and all of a sudden that broke everything loose " . |
| 5 | It was worth it just to see the fun he had going round in circles on a toy fire engine . |
| 6 | By the end of the 1730s Truman 's Brewery had getting on for 300 publicans on the books , though less than a tenth were tied houses actually owned by the brewery . |