Example sentences of "have i [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want a divorce , that 's what I want , but he 'll not budge as long as he 's drawing two salaries and has me cooking for him — but I 'll not eat with him , I stick myself in that tiny kitchen in there — can you imagine the life I lead ? |
| 2 | Time has me dangling on its tenterhooks . |
| 3 | With a great clean sound , reasonable amounts of crunch and buckets-full of sustain , The Attax preamp should 've had me jumping about in praise . |
| 4 | This work has had me taking this set off the shelf again and again . |
| 5 | Now she thinks , not his cock but his tongue , I should have cut his tongue out with them , his slow quicksilver tongue ; for he partly took me backwards out of my joy , into an old timidity that 's there still ; and it 's made a meal of me sometimes teaching , when the sharper ones have had me squirming for my lazy luck . |
| 6 | He had a good knowledge of Scotland , particularly the bagpipes , and I am sure if I had offered to go along to Brigade HQ to fetch my bagpipes he would have had me marching up and down the orchard playing his favourite tunes , much to the consternation of the other Commandos , and possibly the annoyance of the Germans just a short distance away . |
| 7 | And I have smacked him really hard when he 'd nearly had me crying right ? |
| 8 | Ha , she 's had me panicking like mad oh planes going over |
| 9 | But this spring 's burst of blossom on older trees in the garden has had me thumbing through the catalogues again . |
| 10 | It was still very early and , although the mist and drizzle should have had me feeling a little mellow , I was still in good and confident spirits from the naming ceremony . |
| 11 | ‘ Half a dozen cries for help that would have had me losing sleep and tearing out my hair . |
| 12 | For two hours he 'd have me swimming after a brush held in front of my nose , while he set the pace up and down the side of the baths . |
| 13 | That time she 'd told me how lonely and abandoned she felt when she was with her husband , those confessional words , ‘ lonely and abandoned ’ , which usually would have me cringing all over the place , made me shiver . |
| 14 | ‘ Really , Aunt , you 'll have me blushing ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ She also said if you went about it the right way you could have me eating out of your hand . ’ |
| 16 | I can appreciate Edouard would rather have me wasting my time at the museum instead of going round to his flat and trying to persuade Barbara Coleman to leave , but sending someone to kill me was rather an over-reaction . ’ |
| 17 | It 's a good thing you did n't have me doing it . |
| 18 | When she came to get me , she looked really pleased at the idea of having me working for her . |
| 19 | Taking a deep breath , she demanded , ‘ Do you deny you want to have me eating out of your hand ? ’ |
| 20 | The bastard smiled evilly at me as if he would have loved to have put a noose round my neck and had me swinging on a branch of the overhanging elm tree . |
| 21 | Phil disappeared for twenty-four hours and had me ringing up the local police station . |
| 22 | When I got back I had bed rest for a couple of days and then they had me scrubbing the houses and that . |
| 23 | They had me brushing out post-holes on some rubbish dump they said was a castle . |
| 24 | I proceeded to miss the take — do n't ask me how — and the fact that the same thing happened on the following cast really had me cursing . |
| 25 | He 's an older man and maybe an easier since he had me galloping the best of my horses lame over you , Owen . |
| 26 | My derangement had me believing that this , too , could be from Francis . |
| 27 | You almost had me believing that your family secrets were in future to be mine . |
| 28 | You could even be right , head , the little cheat almost had me believing in blood-spitting puppets . |
| 29 | My father once had me believing that the earth was a Mobius strip , not a sphere . |
| 30 | ‘ All that ‘ financial adviser ’ stuff had me laughing my socks off . ’ |