Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] [adv] [verb] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps I 'd better not ride schooling in the morning , ’ I suggested , as we reached the gate to the car park . |
| 2 | I was still nursing my Freddieland injuries , and the way she was looking at me with her unflinching gaze gave me a queasy feeling I 'd only narrowly avoided providing lunch . |
| 3 | She was er I mean was a pop s ex pop singer , I 'd only just stopped singing a few weeks before I started to work with Sybil and she could not have been more gracious and generous in helping me get through it . |
| 4 | After all , I 'd only just stopped doing my paper-round and I heard them talking about headlong stuff I never knew about before : abortions , heroin , Sylvia Plath , prostitution . |
| 5 | My first deadline was the end of last March , and I had n't even started thinking about it by then . |
| 6 | Would I perhaps welcome the security of a helicopter , or welcome the security of waking up in bed to find that it was all a dream and I had n't actually gone hill-walking at all because I had a date with Gerard Depardieu ? |
| 7 | I had not even finished writing this before I got carried away and bought myself another Christmas present — a Synodontis angelicus . |
| 8 | I had only just finished describing the happiness of endless life , when I realized that my friend 's shoulders were shaking and tears of laughter were running down his face . |
| 9 | The next showing was The Tin Drum , but that was a book my father had bought for me years ago , one of the few real presents he has ever given me , and I had therefore assiduously avoided reading it , just as I had Myra Breckinridge , another of his rare gifts . |
| 10 | ‘ I think I 've just about stopped making anything out of anything . |
| 11 | Well I 've just about finished marking for the moment , er what it is erm I went out last night , ill advised |
| 12 | I felt that I was using a part of me that was n't used to functioning and I 've just recently started juggling |
| 13 | Erm that 's fu it is it 's a funny question that because I 've never never liked selling to shops . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've long ago stopped thinking about that . ’ |
| 15 | I 've only just finished building the one on the right . |
| 16 | Yeah I know cos I 've only just started recording again look I 'll let you listen to it in a while all right ? wait that long . |
| 17 | I thought God I have n't even got shopping yet . |
| 18 | I have n't quite mastered dressing the dolls just at the moment though : - ) ) ) . |
| 19 | The responses were later grouped into three categories : ( a ) never smoker — ‘ I have never smoked a cigarette , not even a puff ’ ; ( b ) tried but stopped — ‘ I have only ever tried smoking once or twice but I do n't smoke now , ’ or ‘ I used to smoke sometimes but I do n't smoke now ’ ; ( c ) current smoker — ‘ I smoke sometimes but I do n't smoke as much as one cigarette a week ’ or ‘ I usually smoke between one and six cigarettes a week , ’ or ‘ I usually smoke more than six cigarettes a week . ’ |
| 20 | In the SAS he undoubtedly learned rather more than that , including the survival skills which he has had to draw on so often in expeditions which have not always gone according to plan.He has been a full-time explorer since he was 25 and ‘ like everybody else , in every career , you do n't retire until you have to , ’ he says.His CV reads like a non-stop Boys Own adventure — shooting up the White Nile in a hovercraft , parachuting on to the Jostedalsbre Glacier and negotiating more than 4,000 miles of Canadian and Alaskan rivers.Between 1979 and 1982 , he circumnavigated the world on the Transglobe Expedition , becoming one of the first men ever to reach both the North and South Poles overland . |
| 21 | She had long ago stopped resenting their original professional clashes , and these days their disagreements tended to be over minor details , with her ending up the victor as often as he did . |
| 22 | But before she could decide whether or not finally to deny it he stopped her in her tracks with another accusation — one that she had definitely not seen coming . |
| 23 | But the Colonel and John-William were both Justices of the Peace , often serving on the same Bench together , and although she had so far shirked inviting them to dine — the prospect of being alone with the Colonel 's lady frankly terrifying her — she was delighted to see them here today , feeling that their presence lent great distinction . |
| 24 | When Ruth went down to the lower deck it was a hive of activity , with the strangest thing she had so far seen taking place . |
| 25 | Strange , she had been in Denmark for so short a time yet in those few days she had learned so much , not only about herself but about a country she had never even considered visiting before Suzie 's escapade . |
| 26 | So this article is really a resume of previous thoughts and writings on the subject , except for those who have not yet tried drifting for pike ( are there any ? ) . |
| 27 | ‘ But there is one thing that does very much interest me , as it happens … and that 's your answer to my question … the one I asked five minutes ago and to which you have so far avoided giving an answer … ’ |
| 28 | Pippo continued to bother us , though we had long since stopped taking any notice of him , and the Allied air attacks continued . |
| 29 | Our signals that we want to speak , or that we have n't yet finished speaking , are often sent visually and the signals are not the same in all cultures . |
| 30 | I 'm sorry to see that although we 've got a large increase in budget , which is of course always very welcome , that we have n't perhaps addressed improving the quality er as much as we might have done , although we 've got a lot more home help hours that may be classed as an improvement , but er there are many other areas where we could perhaps encourage improvement in community care er with a bit of thought . |