Example sentences of "[v-ing] [vb pp] [adv prt] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You might think , having filled in a claim for US$110 for the missing items , that would be it . |
| 2 | Having fleshed out the frames of the characters , Whitaker virtually gave Coburn a free hand in his teleplay , needing to concentrate instead on the vast amount of work involved in reshaping the series with the loss or deferment of so many storylines . |
| 3 | Having gathered up the elements of his story from Wordsworth and John Cruikshank , Coleridge had , in a week of brilliant creativity , produced not a gothic ballad of the supernatural , but a strange and capacious metaphor of life itself-of man 's lonely voyage on a ‘ wide wide sea ’ , of his struggle with evil , of guilt and imperfect redemption . |
| 4 | They set out on 23 January , Jordan heading straight for Gabes , and Stirling some twelve hours behind , having carried out a recce on the way . |
| 5 | United and today 's opponents Arsenal have both been under the disciplinary spotlight , having picked up a stack of yellow cards between them . |
| 6 | Some market men said they believed Smith was trying to support the price because the firm was already heavily exposed to Ferranti , having picked up the bulk of shares placed at 81p in July by Jim Guerin , International Signal and Control 's former chairman . |
| 7 | Lastly , in January 1988 , when Mendoros arrived in Britain — having turned down the carrot of promotion — the economy was booming . |
| 8 | Martin and Vicky Cardale came to Castle View with a wealth of valuable experience , having built up a chain of hotels in Australia . |
| 9 | The Southern member states are pushing for this to happen straightaway without having thought through the format of the export document required by the Regulation . |
| 10 | Having opened up the process of selecting technologies that surround the core System V.4 operating system beyond Unix System Laboratories Inc , Unix International plans to go to the industry at large for three technologies this year , according to president Peter Cunningham . |
| 11 | Having opened up the process of selecting technologies that surround the core SVR4 operating system beyond Unix System Labs ( UX No 42 ) , Unix International plans to go to the industry at large for three technologies this year , according to UI president Peter Cunningham . |
| 12 | In his last Test at Sydney in 1984–5 , having wrapped up the series with three victories in the first three games and not having lost for 27 Tests since 1981–2 , his team suddenly collapsed to an innings defeat , the architects of which were Bob Holland and Murray Bennett — spinners both . |
| 13 | Having narrowed down the list to local companies which promise a quick call-out service , you 're all set to dial . |
| 14 | Me having tied up the whole of this campaign while you 've been whooping it up in Valencia — ? ’ |
| 15 | I detest María Corral , director of the Reina Sofía , who , by allowing the removal of ‘ Guernica ’ to her museum where it will be ‘ the pivot of the permanent collection ’ , and by accepting the funerary gifts of Dalí and Miró , will ultimately succeed in putting together a collection of degenerate art without the State having forked out a cent for acquisitions . |
| 16 | Having mopped up the majority of Motif users , IXI is now gunning for Sun Microsystems Inc 's Open Look user base — both installed and new accounts — as its next outlet ( UX No 388 ) , and has hired the advertising guns of Saatchi and Saatchi to try and tease Sun users to X.desktop with its largest advertising campaign to date . |
| 17 | Thus it was that I decided to give Edward Young a greater part to play in At Home in Thrush Green for , having burnt down the rectory in an earlier book , it seemed only right that I should hand over the job of replacing my act of arson to the architect I had created . |
| 18 | Having brought up a tray of pizza , salad and fresh fruit , from a capacious pocket Rosa produced the missing locket . |
| 19 | The trial of Winnie Mandela had been marked by intense media and public interest , and was widely seen as having brought about the collapse of her personal popularity among ANC followers . |
| 20 | She 'd been down to Goring for Marius ' funeral , ( having found out the time by ringing Morrison at Orme Gardens ) . |
| 21 | Having set up a presence in the south east with representative offices in Japan , P&W felt confident enough to establish a bridgehead in Glasgow and it opened an office in the city last January . |
| 22 | Having set out a critique of multicultural and antiracist conceptions of racism and elements of an alternative theorization , it is time to turn to notions of culture in multiculturalism and antiracism . |
| 23 | At p. 157 , having set out the text of section 82(1) , he said : |
| 24 | Having run up a debt of over £100,000 , they 're unlikely to be forgotten by Virgin Records in a hurry . |
| 25 | The SPD 's one-seat majority in the city parliament would enable Henning Voscherau , mayor since June 1988 [ see p. 36045 ] , to form an SPD government , the FDP having ruled out a renewal of the SPD-FDP coalition in place since 1987 [ see p. 35723 ] . |
| 26 | Having slugged back a glass of plum brandy , she says : ‘ I 'm a good Christian , but I 'll not turn the other cheek if some Albanian plucks out the eyes of a fellow Serb , or rapes a little girl , or castrates a 12-year-old Serbian boy … |
| 27 | He retired from the sea at the age of 36 , having taken up a career with the brush . |
| 28 | By the end of the 1970s , with Norman Lindop having taken over the chairmanship from 1974 , the Committee had established itself as a unit which functioned in parallel with those for science and technology , arts and sciences , and research . |
| 29 | Match fees and bonuses for winning pushed up the wages of the best players , but travel and hotel expenses had to be met out of the £5 or £6 payment for away games . |