Example sentences of "[v-ing] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Nell shivered. : Having said it like that , even though she had suspected it all along , brought a terrible picture to the mind . |
| 3 | Jane believes that her mother was often stressed to the point of despair at this time , ‘ … that she suffered all the torments and tribulations of every working mother without anything in her background , education or make-up having prepared her for such an emotional wrenching . ’ |
| 4 | But he declared that he would be unable to recognize Roksanda , after having seen her for such a short time , and that only by the light of his master 's ring . |
| 5 | Earlier generations had already noticed the odd consequences which followed from Aristotle 's having seen the human condition as unquestionably that of an Athenian gentleman , and Kant 's having seen it as that of a Prussian bourgeois . |
| 6 | Not satisfaction at quality of whatever I had done , but simply at having done it at all . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | So what can he do — having got us into this mess — for the good of OUR people ? |
| 9 | I went to my G P , having avoided her for fifteen years , having getting the old story every time you went well you must go on a diet ! |
| 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 | Friendship with a man was nice , she decided , never having experienced it before this . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Having known him in this country and having travelled around Israel with him , I know that he is tough and resilient . |
| 15 | An especially clear example is in the fabliau Boivin de Provins , in which the hero , Boivin , having deluded a household of whores into providing him with a meal and a girl for free , and having set them at each other 's throats , goes off to tell the provost of the town the tale , who in turn spreads the tale around , producing much mirth and laughter . |
| 16 | And then , having cut it in half , turn again and again at the charge to carve it , neatly , for Thorfinn 's well-placed and well-protected infantry to engulf and slaughter . |
| 17 | Sometimes genuine letters are offered without the vital signature , some rabid autograph hunter having removed it at some period . |
| 18 | They will go , for example , into their final qualifying match against the West Indies in Gwalior on 27 October with the record of having beaten them in nine of their previous 10 one-day meetings . |
| 19 | I also feel it was a great honour being a woman and having achieved it in such a short space of time as I have only been in hairdressing for around six years . |
| 20 | Having ignored her for forty minutes whilst they failed to answer questions about Amy to which she might know the answer , Theodora might perhaps have been forgiven for telling them nothing . |