Example sentences of "have [verb] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I might 've considered coming into the business if dear Daddy had n't already got Big Brother as a co-director , ready to take over from him , and if he did n't make it so plain that he only tolerates me because I 'm your husband . |
| 2 | Bradford Northern coach Peter Fox has delayed naming his side for tomorrow 's Trophy quarter-final against Widnes but Great Britain scrum-half Deryck Fox is definitely out . |
| 3 | The Government has delayed responding to the need to equalise pension rights because it means equalising State retirement ages . |
| 4 | To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what representations he has received calling for the introduction of internment without trial ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 5 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent representations he has received urging him to take new action to combat racist attacks . |
| 6 | Glen , 17 , has received backing from the members and officials of Sacriston Workmens Club to assist in paying for costly travel expense . |
| 7 | Since then a strong movement has developed using the oral history/life story method to document the tragic experiences of the ordinary population over the last seventy years . |
| 8 | If the score is a 6 then some fault has developed placing the Steam Tank in danger . |
| 9 | If the pipe has leaked owing to other causes such as wear and tear , faulty joints , etc , it would be appropriate to deal with the claim as a burst pipe claim . |
| 10 | There have been some centres who felt that the American data has justified using it at an early stage . |
| 11 | With this religious overtone in Northern Ireland , the belief in majority dominance has justified ignoring the rights of the catholic — nationalist minority within the Ulster statelet . |
| 12 | One slightly frustrating aspect of this book is the lack of a bibliography , meaning that one has to go hunting in the footnotes for first references . |
| 13 | And she said he has to go trotting to Exeter two or three times a week now . |
| 14 | Congressmen have been less pugnacious since then , and in exchange Mr Borja has stopped trying to reform things much . |
| 15 | The Sovetskiy khudozhnik press has stopped publishing the unique annual publication Sovetskoye iskusstvoznaniye , a collection of the year 's best articles by art historians . |
| 16 | ‘ You 're in luck , ’ he said to Myles , ‘ it has stopped snowing . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It has stopped snowing , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Even Captain Kirk has stopped pushing back the frontiers of the universe boldly to go on to the streets as a cop with the unlikely name of Hooker , a case of Starsky being put into a hutch . |
| 19 | Poland has stopped building the only atomic plant it had in mind . |
| 20 | He has also got a good routine going with his putting now that his caddie , Fanny Sunesson , has stopped crouching down behind him before he putts to make sure he is aiming in the right direction . |
| 21 | ’ That ‘ familiar in fiction ’ is deadly , suggesting as it does that the author has stopped looking at life and has purloined his Andre from the picaresque , in which rogues are invariably charming and whose advances are never rejected . |
| 22 | The Office has stopped subsidising one-day energy surveys for industry and commerce and there is little accessible public information . |
| 23 | Now he has stopped taking drugs and started sitting around watching a lot of television . |
| 24 | JOHN MAJOR has stopped taking all the newspapers . |
| 25 | Wrong horse … and speaking of odds , word reaches us that super-confident Hartlepool Conservative candidate Graham Robb is so much the punters ' favourite that the town 's biggest bookie has stopped taking bets . |
| 26 | Timmy stirs ; my hand has stopped moving . |
| 27 | As a result the company has stopped accepting fresh landings of scallops |
| 28 | Tony Lesser has stopped speaking . |
| 29 | When it has stopped coming , he drops the body and goes back for another lamb and another , creeping down the earthen steps with his blood-stained knife and his feet and ankles splashed with red . |
| 30 | He has stopped driving out to Wellport but I bet he misses our time there , its vigourlessness so safe and morally neutral , when he wore the passive uniform of old age . |