Example sentences of "have [verb] [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Captain Kirk has stopped pushing back the frontiers of the universe boldly to go on to the streets as a cop with the unlikely name of Hooker , a case of Starsky being put into a hutch . |
| 2 | He has also got a good routine going with his putting now that his caddie , Fanny Sunesson , has stopped crouching down behind him before he putts to make sure he is aiming in the right direction . |
| 3 | He has stopped driving out to Wellport but I bet he misses our time there , its vigourlessness so safe and morally neutral , when he wore the passive uniform of old age . |
| 4 | I heard recently that Australia has come whooping out of the closet . |
| 5 | In the past couple of years , however , it has come bouncing back . |
| 6 | I have been listening to ‘ Shepherd Moons ’ for three days straight , packing for a bunk to the Islamic world and every moment of departure in my entire life has come tumbling out of my memory , often erupting in tears . |
| 7 | But , after a chilling encounter with a member of the Stasi just before the fall of the Wall ( we see it in a flashback ) , she has come running back to England , her marriage and her Christian belief in tatters . |
| 8 | But he has made standing up to the teaching unions his thing . |
| 9 | During our set Bill has to play sitting down because he has broken two fingers stage-diving during a Lush set . |
| 10 | The US Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) has proposed setting up a system by which " permits to pollute " with sulphur dioxide ( SO2 ) could be traded among industrial plants . |
| 11 | He has proposed closing down one of the purification plants . |
| 12 | Ross & Cromarty has proposed joining up with Skye & Lochalsh . |
| 13 | Even when the sun goes down , the world still has to keep going round . |
| 14 | He has to keep coming back all the time to look after my needs when … when he 'd much rather be out having his needs looked after . |
| 15 | Professor Sloman has brought spelling up to date except where this would involve changes in pronunciation , accentuation and capitalization . |
| 16 | Secondly , a dear friend of mine has gone wandering off with a person I 'm fairly sure is addicted to a very nasty personality altering drug . |
| 17 | No , but he has gone going round |
| 18 | DARLINGTON manager Ray Hankin has resisted bringing in young players after the 4–2 home defeat by Reading . |
| 19 | Since the counting of unemployment was transferred from Job Centres to Unemployment Benefit Offices in November 1982 , the Government has ceased carrying out an analysis of vacancies by occupation . |
| 20 | We have become busier and more efficient and the productive with each passing decade , and this has meant cutting down on the time spent on more mundane activities . |
| 21 | ‘ I really love my job , ’ he says , ‘ and that has meant giving up the security of local government to seek a wider role , putting my money and reputation where my mouth is . |
| 22 | A man has admitted knocking down and killing a cyclist after drinking more than five pints of lager . |
| 23 | The IRA has admitted carrying out bomb attacks at an oil refinery and gas storage plant on Tyneside . |
| 24 | The outlawed Loyalist terror group the Ulster Freedom Fighters has admitted carrying out three bomb attacks on members of the SDLP . |
| 25 | THE UFF has admitted carrying out a bomb attack on the home of a Roman Catholic family in south Belfast . |
| 26 | Rachel has started packing up to leave , and I try to divert her with more coffee . |
| 27 | To prove she has n't she has started leaving off her trademark scarves to reveal a beautiful , swan-like neck . |
| 28 | In the past couple of years he has started buying up small collections of 30 or 40 , but his weekly forays around antique fairs are now yielding only three or four new designs a year . |
| 29 | Tod has started fooling around . |
| 30 | Coons has started working out daily in a pumping iron gym , and enrolled himself in acting classes . |