Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is impossible after having seen the finest lady in the world not to wish to see her again . |
| 2 | It was pleasing to see one of the most desperate of human calamities capable of so much help : whatever enlarges hope , will exalt courage ; after having seen the deaf taught arithmetick , who would be afraid to cultivate the Hebrides . |
| 3 | Sheep bought by the Scottish Office for testing will be slaughtered in two weeks after having eaten the contaminated vegetation for around eight weeks , to give a clearer picture of the likelihood of contamination passing further through the food chain . |
| 4 | Party Politics looked to be a back number after having won the National last year but he was then tubed for his wind and ran a storming race to take the Greenall Chase at Haydock at the end of February . |
| 5 | The horse has had a disappointing season after having won the Racing Post Stakes as a two-year-old and looking like a ‘ good thing ’ for even one of the Derbys . |
| 6 | The horse has had a disappointing season after having won the Racing Post Stakes as a two-year-old and looking like a ‘ good thing ’ for even one of the Derbys . |
| 7 | In a meeting at the beginning of April , the City Council of Amsterdam , after having ordered the forensic laboratory in Rijswijk to conduct its second investigation , severely criticised the councillor responsible for the Arts , Mrs M. Baak , for her inept handling of the problem and her lack of initiative at crucial moments during the affair . |
| 8 | As for context effects , we will consider these after having discussed the auditory word-recognition system . |
| 9 | After having introduced the outdated 1973 valuations , at some stage it would have a nationwide revaluation . |
| 10 | I offer my congratulations to the workers and management of Yarrow , who have picked themselves up after the bitter disappointment of losing the last order , despite having built the first of class and many of the subsequent ships . |
| 11 | He felt afraid , for Bruce , despite having passed the biblical age of three score years and ten , had a reputation as a ferocious warrior . |
| 12 | It is , of course , rendered suspect simply because the writers connected with the tradition appear to be guilty of having ignored the best evidence concerning Abdulkerim and Molla Arab and because , in order to remain consistent , they must therefore necessarily extend the Muftilik of Molla Husrev to cover the period in the reign of Mehmed II from which the Muftilik of Abdulkerim appears to have been removed . |
| 13 | New friendships tend to be formed with people who are also on their own , and this tends to reinforce the feeling of having lost the desirable married status . |
| 14 | so so you 're proud of having stopped the oldest hunt in , in Scotland ? |
| 15 | ‘ If Britain now decides to meet the legally binding percentage reductions by importing low sulphur coal , or by burning gas , it will be accused of having twisted the other member states . |
| 16 | It gave her a marvellous feeling of having escaped the cold clutches of the north and all her unhappiness there . |
| 17 | We have to think ourselves back into a social system and culture very different from our own if we are to respond , in the way P. C. Wren required , to the improbable events and exalted sentiments of the three Geste brothers who , to serve their adored aunt and their fraternal obligations , vanished into the Foreign Legion , taking upon themselves the imputation of having stolen the blue diamond which she had long ago sold and replaced by a fake for the sake of her extravagant husband . |
| 18 | We were able to boast of having set the lowest rates in west London and of providing sufficiently good services to attract the Leader of the Opposition to Conservative-controlled Ealing from Liberal-controlled Richmond . |
| 19 | On Oct. 1 it was reported that the Chadian authorities suspected Chadian refugees in Niger of having triggered the recent disturbances in the northern Tibesti region [ see p. 38427 ] . |
| 20 | In a statement issued shortly after Patten 's departure on Oct. 23 , Lu Ping , head of the Chinese State Council 's Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office , accused Patten of having violated the Basic Law and also of having reneged on a series of secret Sino-British agreements on " convergence " between Hong Kong 's current political system and its post-1997 status as a special administrative region . |
| 21 | Harris demonstrates that " some HE speakers show evidence of having acquired the standard perfect form but less than complete control over its function . " |
| 22 | The French Dragoons , content with having chased the lone horseman away , did not follow him . |
| 23 | It was a Dutch medical man who is credited with having discovered the first recipe for gin back in the 1600s . |
| 24 | Former Premier Li Gun Mo ( in 1986-88 — see p. 36937 ) and other disgraced officials were rumoured to have been detained for having opposed the planned succession of Kim Jong Il , the son of Kim Il Sung . |
| 25 | In announcing his veto to a White House gathering of Republican lawmakers and businessmen , Bush denounced the " irresponsibility " of Congress for having rejected the economic recovery measures which he had outlined in his State of the Union address in January [ see pp. 38711-13 ] . |
| 26 | James Churchill , from the Association for Residential Care , criticised ministers for having rejected the Social Security Advisory Committee 's recommendation last year that the six-day limit be extended to 14 days to cover for holidays . |
| 27 | The Centre Party campaigned mainly on economic issues , criticizing the government for having caused the current recession , the worst since 1945 , with voters affected in particular by unprecedentedly high levels of interest rates and of unemployment ( 7 per cent in 1990 ) . |
| 28 | He was mentioned in despatches , for having displayed the same casual courage his companions had remarked on before the war as he pursued his favourite pastime of mountaineering ( he had neither the time nor patience for golf and was reckoned by devotees to be only a fair-weather fisherman ) . |
| 29 | and I , I told him I was n't stupid enough to keep money in the house as an ex er as an ex lawyer and erm , where , er it so happened as I say that I talked to he , he did n't take any thing in fact at the end he apologise for having chosen the wrong house and he |
| 30 | Far from having reached the sunny uplands of history , as some have claimed , therefore , human beings will perhaps have to face , even in the present generation , new trials on a bleak and inhospitable mountainside . |