Example sentences of "[v-ing] [vb pp] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Having installed himself and his family in a comfortable , modern house in Hendon , Chapman spelled out his aims in the programme for the first match . |
| 32 | She was sitting at the mirror in her room , having excused herself from her cousins ' chatter minutes before . |
| 33 | But Pa is operating the machine himself today , it being Sunday and Ma having excused herself on account of the washing . |
| 34 | Having addressed themselves to the army and the treasury , the authorities turned to the Orthodox Church . |
| 35 | What he did not know was that the Government , by the next day , would be anxious to retreat from the formula , and that the miners ' executive , having dispersed itself from London , would give them all day in which to do so . |
| 36 | Moore contends that if , having freed ourselves from the naturalistic fallacy , we ask what are the chief good things known to us , we will conclude that they are personal affection and the enjoyment of beautiful objects . |
| 37 | Having freed ourselves of the shackles of the classical conception of the company and its assertion that it is only the interest of the shareholders as property owners that the law should seek to protect , it becomes evident that a whole web of relationships of interdependence exist around and within the company . |
| 38 | Having disciplined , explored and contained my own metaphysical anguish , having put down my own last worthy appetites , having separated myself by conscious decision from the filth and decadence of modern society , it is inevitable that my own hard-won sense of propriety or dignity should tempt me into being the scourge of other , more self-indulgent beings , fictional or not . |
| 39 | Ronnie returned to his native Midlands to become senior coach at Wolves in March 1965 , have completed exactly 100 League games for us and having made himself a popular fellow here at Selhurst Park . |
| 40 | Almost as if , having proclaimed himself paralytic in court , he was setting about proving it over and over again . |
| 41 | Having seen herself properly dressed again , she could not bear the thought of confronting him in the skimpy , shabby , ready-made clothes of wartime London . |
| 42 | If war broke out , would I come to regret having buried myself in some backwater while history passed me by ? |
| 43 | Surrounded by his manager , personal conditioner and other members of the Lewis entourage , the champion , who readily admits to having modelled himself on Muhammad Ali confessed to ready participation in the media circus . |
| 44 | Having convinced yourself that you can safely find the ‘ hold ’ switch and abort an autorotation landing , you should beware of making a habit of this . |
| 45 | Having hauled themselves to the top of the manual workers ' pay league , the reduction of miners ' political offensive to an economic demand foundered on the success of economism during the 1972 and 1974 pay offensives . |
| 46 | At this Wullie Robertson 's band struck up , several yobs having armed themselves with tin trumpets . |
| 47 | Again , the boys , having valued themselves highly as pupils , apparently proceed to ‘ discount ’ the girls . |
| 48 | Having sold himself to the things he loves . |
| 49 | He did not know , indeed , which hurt him the most — the memory of the bright young girl she had been , or the knowledge that now , having sold herself to a rich old man , she had come , once that man had died , to try to buy him for herself . |
| 50 | After headlining at 1990 's Knebworth gig , Knopfler , having pronounced himself ‘ back in love with music ’ , began work on the songs that were to make up Straits ' latest offering , ‘ On Every Street ’ . |
| 51 | Fielding maintained that Lorne was all fucked out " , having gorged himself to the point of decrepitude during his first decade at the top , a common enough syndrome in the movie business . |
| 52 | Herbert heads for a nearby town where , having gorged himself in a garage , he finds his way to an open space and falls asleep . |
| 53 | They , too , reasoned that Death , having gorged itself on their neighbours , would have long since moved on . |
| 54 | Angelina had cheered up considerably , having rid herself of the burden of guilt she was carrying . |
| 55 | He 'd use it to identify and locate all the landmarks which he had stared up at during his exhausting explorations , now seen from a very different perspective ; he knew the names of all the streets where the distant , anonymous towers of the banks and finance companies were sited , having worn himself out many times by walking along them , fascinated by the scenes glimpsed behind their mirrored , darkened or tinted glass windows and walls . |
| 56 | In spite of having sponged herself down in cold water to close the pores , and liberally applied powdered chalk to absorb the perspiration , she could feel the rivulets of sweat running down her back and the insides of her thighs . |
| 57 | Crawford 's character finishes eighth but , having overtaxed himself , he then collapses on the track . |
| 58 | There were seven of us sharing the place , the Carters ' eldest son and his girlfriend having invited themselves along at the last moment , and their movements were completely unpredictable . |
| 59 | Generally relatives from Scotland in my case , and decide to stay , having invited themselves , and you ca n't really turn them away , er , decide to stay for two or three days . |
| 60 | She could n't sleep , despite having walked herself into the ground that afternoon , among the sheep and the ferns and the wet grass . |