Example sentences of "[v-ing] [vb pp] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Form is no indicator , Arbroath having won their Second Division match with East Fife at Bayview this season before losing on their own ground to the Fifers . |
| 3 | Such is the mood of pessimism here it is hard to find anyone who believes the All Blacks , having won their seven matches in Wales , will face any significant threat during the next fortnight . |
| 4 | Guppy and Marsh , having lodged their bogus insurance claim , flew back to New York on Concorde . |
| 5 | Many ‘ can-but-wo n't payers ’ will pay their court orders , having made their self-indulgent gestures ; others will suffer relatively painless deductions from salary cheques . |
| 6 | Though the firms eventually chose America 's General Dynamics ( having had their second choice , McDonnell Douglas , and their first choice , going it alone , overruled by the Japanese government ) , the group also looked at the Panavia Tornado , the Anglo-American Harrier it and the Swedish Gripen . |
| 7 | Having drawn their first game , against West on Thursday , South need a victory to win overall . |
| 8 | Having celebrated their 5th birthday in style with Beaujolais Nouveau for all clientèle , the Greys salon in have been quietly promoting their commitment to quality with their Customer Service Policy . |
| 9 | The temporary buildings , having outlived their normal life expectancy are damp , lack toilet facilities , have broken windows , broken window catches and provide an unsafe environment for the pupils . |
| 10 | Having exhausted their historic potential , Gorbachev went on , the major capitalist countries had decided to accelerate the arms race and militarism of all kinds , and were deliberately preparing their populations for nuclear war . |
| 11 | For a start , they are inexperienced in the commercial world , having spent their earlier years in the cosy surrounds of a nationalised concern . |
| 12 | These will have hatched from spawn laid far offshore , in water as deep as two hundred metres and , having spent their larval stage swimming free in the ocean , they spend the next two , sometimes three years inshore where they form an important part of the food for many sea-birds and also for seals and otters . |
| 13 | It is getting steadily worse and is moving westward with the stream of refugees , who , having eaten their last stores and sold everything that would buy a morsel of bread , are wandering they know not whither . |
| 14 | By the end of this period the political groupings which were to carry out the great changes of the next century in Britain , though very far from having assumed their late-Victorian form , were slowly evolving . |
| 15 | He was buried in the family vault in St Petersburg , the city authorities having reversed their previous decision to refuse permission for the body to be buried in St. Petersburg . |
| 16 | It shows that for those people without work and looking for a job , the ending of a temporary job was the second most important reason for having left their last employment . |
| 17 | Having left their native New York at the beginning of the eighties to christen their career in Britain , the Strays rose to fame alongside ( or supporting ) The Clash , The Pretenders and Madness . |
| 18 | She had chosen a day when only Paige was at home , the staff having taken their regular day off . |
| 19 | Having obtained their original birth certificate , adoptees can start tracing their birth parents . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | First , the settlement house policy of ‘ neighbourliness ’ was trenchantly criticized by young radicals such as George Lansbury and C. F. G. Masterman who saw such movements either as laboratories for ambitious young men or as having lost their initial enthusiasm . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Having established their basic model , the authors go on to describe their speculative theory of the processes involved ( see Figure 4.2 ) . |
| 24 | 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 " . |