Example sentences of "[v-ing] [vb pp] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is n't your children getting married something in common ? ’ |
| 2 | And having pilloried them in the past it is only fair to hear their point of view . |
| 3 | While they were entering their ‘ surplus ’ Hunter and Meteor at Billinghurst , they were taking delivery of Hawker P.1067 WB188 and Meteor IV ( Special ) EE549 from Cosford , having received them on loan from the RAF Museum . |
| 4 | The contractors , having racked themselves to the limit to fight off all other comers , may be forced to cut back on programme spending , to the detriment of exactly the kind of endeavours which may give delight to many but have no great appeal to the masses . |
| 5 | Having inundated us with Mozart last season , it has not a note of Rossini this summer . |
| 6 | There followed a period for the next 18 months where my family , having joined me from Yorkshire , came up to Scotland . |
| 7 | Gardner Heidrick , like Sydney Boyden , originally came from Booz , Allen & Hamilton , having joined them in 1951 ; John Struggles , also like Boyden , had been Vice-president of the mail-order house Montgomery Ward . |
| 8 | If firm 2 reneges on punishment , then in the following period firm 1 must punish firm 2 for not having punished it in the previous period , and so on . |
| 9 | Lloyd spoilt it , of course , with an unbeaten 60 that helped his team to 190 all out , but having dismissed them for their lowest total in years England had to feel confident . |
| 10 | We 'd rehearse in the huts after school , having squared it with the music teacher . |
| 11 | Having given herself to him , she was his . |
| 12 | Having divested themselves of their overstocks , they are now issuing some exciting new products and are showing signs of a return to profitability . |
| 13 | You may see the location of Ellen Terry 's cottage at Winchelsea , the billowing sail of Captain Locker 's ship ( see p.200–201 ) , the Tower of London ( as used on the Public Record Office plate ) , the crest of Charles Dickens , to which he was not entitled , having annexed it from a 1625 grant to William Dickens , and the forty quarterings of the arms of Sir Francis Fust . |
| 14 | A few minutes later Silas led Lucy into the office , where he checked the telephone 's answering device for messages , then , having unhooked it from the phone , he said , ‘ There you are — it 's all yours . ’ |
| 15 | After nearly a decade down under he was overdue an entirely Australian subject — the Board of Control having disappointed him by refusing to let him write their official history : ‘ This is the one major cricket book still to be written in Australia . |
| 16 | Having liquidated one in four employees during the past few years and having promised to treat its workforce to more of the same during 1993 , IBM should have surprised no one by investing some of the money it has presumably saved in an organisation formed by the people who produced the most recent Terminator film . |
| 17 | Having extricated himself from the Archbishop 's service Mozart , this time accompanied by his mother , set off in search of an appointment elsewhere . |
| 18 | His final decision is in favour of whichever proves stronger , but the stronger for perhaps no more than the brief spell of fullest awareness in which he decides , afterwards to be panic-stricken at having committed himself to a choice which none the less he still knows in his heart was right . |
| 19 | Anselm had no doubt where justice lay : ‘ No man having put his hand to the plough [ that is to say , in this case , having committed himself to a monastic life ] and looking back , is fit for the kingdom of Heaven . ’ |
| 20 | After designing an architect 's dream , he will then have to try and make it functional , having committed himself to a particular shape and size . |
| 21 | Having committed himself by revealing defence secrets , such freedom of speech seemed a trivial matter . |
| 22 | When an emotionally articulate speaker wants to convey to me , not the fact that he is sad , but in what way and to what degree , his language becomes rhythmic and metaphorical , pulls me to his viewpoint to visualize his situation becomes a poetry which infects me with his melancholy and a rhetoric stirring me to help him , and afterwards perhaps I find myself regretting having committed myself to an action in his interests rather than my own . |
| 23 | The authorities are thought of as having committed themselves to the maintenance of a particular unemployment rate irrespective of the inflationary consequences and of being prepared to carry over this policy at least into period t . |
| 24 | Never having designed anything like this before Cusick privately held many worries about the cost and ease of manufacturing these props . |
| 25 | Despite the lodging-house furniture , the room bore hallmarks of long individual occupation , Aranyos having impressed it with his stamp in the form of various ornaments , mostly of a military flavour . |
| 26 | Having blamed it on the Bundesbank , he can go on to talk about other things — such as sex and tax , perhaps . |
| 27 | 30–8–1856 John Campbell , publichouse keeper , was struck off the Communion Roll the authorities having fined him for " keeping his house open at unreasonable hours . " |
| 28 | There are few people who came to know Harold Macmillan who do not have some anecdote about him , and I am fortunate in that having interviewed him at length twice , as well as running into him on a number of other occasions , I have garnered quite a few . |
| 29 | Still a bit shy , Luce hitched the thin sheet a shade higher to cover her nakedness and , having trapped it under her arms , helped herself to a flaky roll , which she spread liberally with butter and apricot jam . |
| 30 | But Pa is operating the machine himself today , it being Sunday and Ma having excused herself on account of the washing . |