Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] i [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This work has had me taking this set off the shelf again and again . |
| 2 | Maybe one of Dad 's visiting directors has seen me hanging around — spotted my talent . |
| 3 | No wonder the seventh morning with its seventh sun had left me craving for Transylvanian dissolution . |
| 4 | Er I , I was going in the evening you know , doing the tailoring class but of course my illnesses have stopped me doing all of that and made me realize I ca n't do it all . |
| 5 | At the end of the day I still have strong reservations about the software , eighteen months ago it would have been fine but exposure to everything from 1–2–3 to Open Access has left me expecting rather more from an integrated package . |
| 6 | Luckily , the gas had left me feeling so foul and depressed that I was almost looking forward to it , feeling faintly curious about what form it would take . |
| 7 | ‘ Sheer pride and being and wanting to be the best driver in the world has kept me going . ’ |
| 8 | But this spring 's burst of blossom on older trees in the garden has had me thumbing through the catalogues again . |
| 9 | Their noise had stopped me sleeping : shouting , shattering glass , the word ‘ police ’ echoing here and there . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | When the Sheikha heard that her son had kept me beating the tambourine all the way to Al Ain she was horrified and no amount of pleading on my part helped . |