Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] have [be] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end , since there were no volunteers , the Magistrate was obliged to send the Eurasian women , half a dozen of whom had been quietly living in the Residency pantry and had spread their bedding on the pantry shelves . |
| 2 | And that 's precisely what is so impossible to say aloud , for their entire life together ( already over twenty years of life together ) , has been based on the illusion of love , an illusion which both of them have been anxiously guarding and nurturing . |
| 3 | President Jorge Serrano Elias on May 20 publicly dismissed the possibility of a military coup , rumours of which had been widely circulating in recent weeks . |
| 4 | As he had passed her in the little hall this morning a tendril of her silky black hair had brushed his ruined cheek , and the smell of it had been so distracting that he had feared for his composure . |
| 5 | For the hazard he now claims to recognise is essentially that which several of us have been patiently trying to explain to psychiatrists and others for the past twelve years or so and one which is now officially acknowledged in several overseas countries . |