Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now that we 're getting or going to get presumably more involved in union matters it might be advantageous if we could have a minute taker . |
| 2 | It seemed to John le Grant that having gone so far , this thought , at least , must be completed . |
| 3 | I think they felt that having survived so far , they were now leading charmed lives and nothing could get them . |
| 4 | ‘ I had insisted all along that we could not return until that was the case and that having waited so long , waiting a little longer would not matter . |
| 5 | We 're sure that having come this far you wo n't want to miss out on anything and we really do recommend you join us on these trips as it can be very expensive if you try to do it all on your own . |
| 6 | Secondly , he must be ‘ absolutely assured that the High Command was in a position to furnish us with the necessary men and material for the continuance of the offensive , and that not by driblets , but on a large scale ’ Thirdly , the campaign should be halted the moment ‘ we ourselves were losing more heavily and becoming exhausted more rapidly than the enemy ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ And … and I certainly would n't have answered them , even if I had ! ’ she told him fiercely before spinning quickly around on her heels and beginning to walk rapidly away down the street . |
| 8 | The breed probably paid the penalty of being too lightweight and failing to fatten well enough to meet farmers ’ demands for beef from their dairy herds . |
| 9 | And having done so beautifully in the buildup how did he get it so wrong with the shot ? |
| 10 | When you slice the ball , particularly if trying to hit too hard , the body wins , the hands come second and the poor old clubhead trails through third , usually in a wide open position . |
| 11 | They had retired from work within a year of each other and were looking forward to spending time together doing many of the things that bringing up children and working had so far prevented . |
| 12 | Of most concern is getting the best sound out of the instrument without the strings pulling it apart and needing returning too often . |
| 13 | But having got so far , she could not leave it there . |
| 14 | A vision of the other woman 's mocking green eyes very nearly sent her running back to the safety of her own room , but having come this far she was determined to see this thing through , come what may . |
| 15 | Normally , I would n't care two hoots , but having come home unexpectedly , and with the thought of our marriage dazzling me , I 'm so happy that I keep expecting some obstacle to turn up . |
| 16 | For the T-section of figure 9.14(a) , the image impedances are given by and Rearranged , these equations become Subtracting yields while adding gives Hence Interestingly , the image impedances of a section can be more neatly expressed in terms of its input impedances under open and short-circuit termination . |
| 17 | Thus in this particular book , while trying to present as fully and clearly as space allowed the teaching of the Scriptures about the Holy Spirit , I would have been failing to meet the aim of the series had I neglected the controversial issues of the baptism , the gifts and the fullness of the Holy Spirit . |
| 18 | The present aim of shaft design is to specify a particular bending flexibility in the shaft while reducing twisting as far as possible . |
| 19 | From the UK 's viewpoint , the time was right in 1949 as by then it had the productive capacity to take advantage of the added price competitiveness in dollar markets which devaluation would provide , while needing to rely less heavily on imports from those areas . |
| 20 | I would see the South as having developed much more quickly and differently than the North . |
| 21 | Most people think of artists as having to work totally alone , but I like to have someone there who does n't really disrupt what I 'm doing . |
| 22 | Most people think of artists as having to work totally alone , but I like to have someone there who does n't really disrupt what I 'm doing . |
| 23 | Davidson ( 1975 ) would even maintain that this requires that they have mastery of a language ; that it is wrong even to think in terms of quasi-beliefs or proto-beliefs when trying to explain even quite complex behaviour of languageless creatures . |