Example sentences of "have [verb] [art] [num ord] [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pat has got a second class going , for the elderly at the Newquay Day Centre ( where she is up against a simultaneously running Bingo session ) , and would now like to introduce a recreational and/or breathing class to her locality . |
| 2 | John Hall has spent the last year receiving chemotherapy and blood transfusions in order to stay alive . |
| 3 | Sun Microsystems has spent the last year revamping its American resellers program and has de-authorised some 900 low value add locations for not making the kind of long-term commitment and investment it believes is necessary to a sound business model . |
| 4 | She has spent the last year following her sailing pursuits but this year she gave priority to her GCSE exams and has done much less sailing . |
| 5 | The man next door has spent the last year making a kennel for his dog . |
| 6 | The government has issued the first licence permitting the irradiation of food . |
| 7 | Having spent the last decade appearing in television mini-series and narrating Thomas the Tank Engine , Starr has rediscovered his musical roots . |
| 8 | Joyce Cormie , Development Officer , Fife , Age Concern Scotland Having spent the last year doing a study on day care in Fife , I have been asked to do this presentation on the implications of day care for planners . |
| 9 | ‘ I must have spent the last week talking to hundreds of players . |
| 10 | Crown counsel informed defence counsel of an inconsistency between the sister 's testimony and her first statement without showing him that statement or revealing that she had made a second statement confirming the first statement in that respect . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've spent the last year asking the public to write something , anything , and then be photographed . |
| 12 | Workers from VOLSEC have spent the last year renovating the Ingrow Station and plan to replace the station buildings next year so I wonder if anything unexplained will be found then ? |
| 13 | ‘ Lady Blaine , I have spent the last week debating whether or not to ruin your father Hiram , and his syndicate , and provide the information to send them , and him , to prison for stockmarket fraud . |
| 14 | Both the Blyth and the Farndale have achieved a first class rating from the National Energy Foundation . |