Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | And the extra that they should have had is going to pay for these uniforms . |
2 | Parliament may have been intending to legislate in such all-embracing terms . |
3 | Whatever secret he had been hoping to confide on that short walk to the House would remain for ever unspoken . |
4 | Helen had been trying to learn for some time , but she found it very hard although Tony was endlessly patient with her . |
5 | The area had been going to seed for many years after the ship chandlers who once thrived there went one by one out of business . |
6 | The stormclouds that had been threatening to unload for most of the week finally opened their hatches on Saturday afternoon . |
7 | So you see what I 've been , what I 've been trying to do in this lecture is to explain the , the modern biological basis which I think makes Freud 's findings intelligent . |
8 | They 've been trying to see about that lot where the boys ' grammar school is int they ? |
9 | Because I 've been trying to swop between that one and that one . |
10 | ‘ Even so , I 've been trying to get to this level for seven or eight years , even though I knew that people liked what I did . |
11 | Do n't ask me Matt , I 've been sitting talking for many long days |
12 | We have been trying to focus in this study on those people within the enterprise who are in a position to effect strategic change ( or to maintain the status quo in the face of destabilising influences ) . |
13 | By way of example , Figure 7 shows a system that I have been helping to develop for some ten years now ( Smith and Rothman , 1980 ) . |
14 | money for light and they 've been having to keep her pension and like giving her so much at a time because it 's been going missing with all the money ! |