Example sentences of "[v-ing] [vb pp] [pron] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This coming and going caused its own problems , though . |
| 2 | She knew this hedge well , having jumped it both ways innumerable times . |
| 3 | Having enjoyed their own childhood and experienced their parents ' delight in them , they want to repeat the good experience from the position of parent , and have few fears about this . |
| 4 | Having , having booked it that morning |
| 5 | I felt ashamed for having loathed my own life for so long . |
| 6 | They had arranged a tenant but been let down , and Signor Fixit had promised to go and sit in their villa , having let his own house . |
| 7 | Having answered his own question of whether he would make the cut , he proved himself capable of denying the one that he was a one-major wonder . |
| 8 | But the collaboration was a predictable failure , and Coleridge , having written his own canto ‘ at full finger-speed ’ , found Wordsworth seated before a nearly blank sheet of paper with a look of ‘ humorous despondency ’ on his face.7sup5 ; A second attempt at joint composition followed almost at once , in the course of another tour , and although the two friends were no more successful than before at direct collaboration , a new and remarkable poem began to emerge none the less . |
| 9 | ‘ What do you intend to do this afternoon , Travis ? ’ she asked her younger son , despite her cheerful and pleasant tone , with a trace of anxiety which Leith recognised from having seen her own mother trying to be similarly tactful with Sebastian on occasions . |
| 10 | And of course you 'd want some fun this evening , having done nothing all day . |
| 11 | He gave vent to his anger and lambasted the shipping manager for not having alerted him that Clarion Call was overdue . |
| 12 | Newton ( erroneously regarded as a materialist by those who should know better ) was the one responsible for the Western scientific endorsement of ‘ ether ’ prior to 1 930 , having based his own work on much earlier sources , including the Greeks . |
| 13 | Having rejoined his own troops he insisted that the Empress should proclaim him Negus . |
| 14 | She knew perfectly well that if she gave him any warning he 'd find some excuse to refuse to see her , so , having dumped her own things in her flat , she went straight round to his , hoping to catch him before he went out . |
| 15 | An unemployed actor went to his agent to complain about his agent not having found him any work in months . |
| 16 | ‘ I seem to recall having asked you this question before . |
| 17 | In my opinion , these charges are an attempt to retaliate for Mr Macchio having filed his own action to terminate their professional relationship . ’ |
| 18 | Having tried it both ways , I am more comfortable with the single act approach , and in the history of rock management , that has generally been the most successful route . |
| 19 | Peace was hanged by William Marwood [ q.v. ] at Armley prison , Leeds , 25 February 1879 , having composed his own memorial card , ending with the words : ‘ For that I don [ sic ] but never intended . ’ |
| 20 | In relation to our " design-and-society " problem , design , in rending itself from the social fabric and attempting to construct itself as an independent discipline — and having constructed its own pantheon of values and principles with only tangential relation to the social — becomes , quite literally , socially unintelligible . |
| 21 | Again , low-income local families may need council houses but the in-migrant middle class may oppose all new developments , having obtained their own foothold in the village . |
| 22 | Bobo was in for a shock , however , for when he kicked open the door to Sam 's office , he discovered that the President had already taken the matter out of his hands , having blown his own brains out . |
| 23 | In addition to a single card , each group received a worksheet containing the following instructions : One of the advantages of cutting up the card was that each group , after having recorded its own reconstruction , was able to assemble the narratives proposed by the other groups . |
| 24 | Having lost my own job , I found I could relate to everything in this honest and moving article . |
| 25 | Having lost his own dream of ships , Columbus leaves the Jews to the ships of their exile , waiting in the harbour of Cadiz . |
| 26 | ‘ We have found ourselves in the unusual position of having created our own market . ’ |
| 27 | I remember on one occasion having strained my own courage to the absolute limit on a contract worth 10 million , which at that time was very large indeed , in order to obtain another 200,000 . |
| 28 | Most probably , having married their own problem in their unconscious choice of partner — one who also disappoints — it will be particularly difficult for them to convert this inevitably disappointing choice into conscious commitment . |
| 29 | Having countered their own criticism , however , they go on to argue ( p.120 ) that CA 's " apparent analytical successes are dependent upon the analyst 's stepping beyond the methodological limits allowed by the underlying ethnomethodological principles " . |
| 30 | and financial circumstances and erm , this was something of course that I had to leave to the people who were working got himself another job . |