Example sentences of "had [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chinese had dyeing down to a fine art as much as 5,000 years ago , and there are herbs grown today whose names record their colouring ability , such as dyer's-greenweed and dyer's-bugloss . |
| 2 | So she had singing lessons , and both Eva and Margaret learnt the art of speech and drama from a Mrs Rickwood . |
| 3 | But there 's another interesting fact that as well erm and it 's borne out , I know opinion polls had a rather bad erm er er got a bad press in the general election er because they were n't very accurate and it was odd this because their , their accuracy levels had becoming er had , had , had been becoming frighteningly er accurate say in eighty seven you know ? |
| 4 | I slid my eyes over the gent she had accessorising her . |
| 5 | Fine views can be had looking down on the north side of the island to Porto da Cruz and the Penha d'Aguia ( the enormous flat-topped rock ) which stands between Faial and Porto da Cruz . |
| 6 | The paper had writing on . |
| 7 | " We took prints we had lying around and played with them and all of a sudden that broke everything loose " . |
| 8 | They were charged that they did contrive , design and plot to murder MOIR NcILCHENICH widow of Ellister for mere avarice and covetousness to attain to her money which they supposed she had lying by her in her house and in pursuance of this plot did upon some day of April 1698 in dead time of night murder her by strangling her with her own belt and thereafter threw her body over a rock into the sea so that the deed was not discovered for some time . |
| 9 | The son of a former officer in the Dragoon Guards , Captain Donald Swan , who still trains in Tipperary , Charlie obviously had racing in his blood and after leaving school at 15 he had made up his mind to be a jockey . |
| 10 | This prevented him from taking part in yesterday 's pre-qualifying after he had waiting 10 years for the chance of an F1 drive . |
| 11 | He thought her pleasure in Florian 's win was for her once and future lover and , presumably , that in her euphoria she was going to let him jump this queue of men he had convinced himself she had waiting for her sexual favours . |
| 12 | A large part of the fun I had testing this guitar through an amplifier came from not knowing what to expect . |
| 13 | How he managed to live with all I had going against him was an East Yorkshire miracle . |
| 14 | OK , so Zacchaeus was clever , but that was about all he had going for him . |
| 15 | ‘ Why jeopardize what he had going for him by getting greedy ? |
| 16 | The only thing I had going against me was : I was black . |
| 17 | Whatever they had going , it was their business and none of hers , and if it would n't lead her toward Christine then she was n't even interested . |
| 18 | The baby on the way was all that the marriage had going for it , and even then , if Rachel was n't around , he had a roving eye , and sometimes more than an eye , although at that stage he was technically faithful , I think . |
| 19 | How he managed to live with all I had going against him was an East Yorkshire miracle . |
| 20 | It was worth it just to see the fun he had going round in circles on a toy fire engine . |
| 21 | Mind you yours took a long time , you know that bump Tom had going to his |
| 22 | They were a little bigger than this the ones they had shunting here . |
| 23 | It was a letter written by er erm , a sixteenth century woman to her husband , and again it had commenting on the language used . |
| 24 | One says he do n't think so , and someone else makes a crack about reggae , and I realize this gun I had pointing at her seems to have drooped like soft rubber , so I relax my arm and let it point to the floor . |
| 25 | After the television crews were greeted with frantic applause from soldiers and officers of the Feliks Dzherzhinsky Regiment , privates spoke freely of the conflict they had reconciling their duty of protecting top leaders and central committee members with ever increasing revelations of corruption . |
| 26 | Had sending Zen the letter been her humble way of serving the great principle upon which Luciano Bartocci had now apparently turned his back , of not letting the bastards get away with it ? |
| 27 | By the end of the 1730s Truman 's Brewery had getting on for 300 publicans on the books , though less than a tenth were tied houses actually owned by the brewery . |
| 28 | The problems I had getting Dawn used to my family were made worse for two reasons . |
| 29 | His sister 's afterbirth was in the road — and the time they had getting it away ! ’ |
| 30 | What a job I had getting him pulled out . |