Example sentences of "[v-ing] [vb pp] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . " |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I deserve the Nobel Peace Prize for not having torn him to pieces already ! ’ |
| 5 | Having met him at the station on 3 December , a Tuesday , we walked back to the Old parsonage , in St Giles 's ( now a hotel ) , where Michael Cullis had pleasant lodgings . |
| 6 | Having waited so long to hear from the ‘ one man ’ who knew what had happened , when he appeared they could do nothing but gaze on him ; having made him into a celluloid star , there was no reason at this point to spoil it , and make him real . |
| 7 | Having saved him from almost certain death in the morning at the hands of the enemy , fate had collected him the same evening by a stray bullet fired in error by a Maltese Army recruit . |
| 8 | Another member of the Squadron , air bomber Colin Gifford , remembers Johnson declaring Sugar the best aeroplane on the Squadron after having got him through some violent evasive action one night . |
| 9 | Southey wrote long afterwards that he was astonished at this turn of events , since Coleridge , such a short time before , had talked of being ‘ deeply in love with a certain Mary Evans ’ ; Coleridge , on the other hand , was later to blame Southey for having persuaded him into marriage against his will . |
| 10 | In 1914 he became a master at Eton College , where he remained during World War I , a heart murmur having disqualified him for military service . |
| 11 | During the 1860s , it was Thomas Ayliffe , Jasper having replaced him by 1889 . |
| 12 | Having known him for many months in Vancouver , and relishing his word-pictures of Yukon characters like ‘ dangerous Dan McGrew ’ and ‘ the lady known as Lou ’ , I tried to see in Service 's eyes the modern Yukon nearly half a century after the gold rush . |
| 13 | In 1616 he presented William Bedell [ q.v. ] as rector of Horringer , Suffolk , probably having known him as preacher of St Mary 's , Bury St Edmunds ; later he was the means of Bedell 's promotion to an Irish bishopric . |
| 14 | Having known him in this country and having travelled around Israel with him , I know that he is tough and resilient . |
| 15 | So , too , had Hawke 's own navigating officer , who having warned him of the dangers was firmly told : ‘ You have done your duty in this remonstrance ; you are now to obey my orders . |
| 16 | Having edged him to the end of the branch , he utters a shattering ‘ bock ’ in his ear and the rival falls off . |
| 17 | Either she could say that Derek was the biggest fool the world had ever seen — in which case she would stand , self-confessed , as an even bigger fool for having married him in the first place . |
| 18 | Othello ends up with the same poisoned suspicions as Iago , who had earlier confessed that he suspects both Othello and Cassio of having cuckolded him with Emilia ( II.i.285ff . ) . |