Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [v-ing] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is because you will have developed , without necessarily ever having thought about it , some learning style preferences that equip you better for certain stages in the cycle than for others . |
| 2 | I thanked him in my head for so thoroughly putting paid to the past , at least for the moment . |
| 3 | She would be waiting for him now , getting ready , perhaps only now getting dressed , or still in the bath or shower . |
| 4 | The Uruguayan Juan Carlos Onetti has been writing since the Thirties and so prefigures the magic realists , but his books are only now becoming known to English readers . |
| 5 | In the 1930s and 1940s , although the impact of man was becoming increasingly more evident from situations like the dust bowl , the Tennessee Valley Authority ( TVA ) , and the much greater use of fertilizers , this situation was not fully acknowledged in physical geography and this is perhaps particularly startling given the appearance of books on soil erosion ( e.g. Jacks and Whyte , 1939 ) . |
| 6 | Cézanne died in 1906 with the feeling of only partially having achieved the end for which he had striven so long and hard . |
| 7 | The reactions you may experience to these drinks and chocolate , having cleansed your system of them or more importantly having overcome any addiction you may have had , may include : migraine headache irritability depression anxiety shaky nervous feeling increased passage of urine mental overactivity insomnia weight gain . |
| 8 | It is perfectly possible to go through a University career , satisfy the examiners , graduate in the splendour of the Great Hall , and leave as a Bristol graduate without ever once having thought how the whole thing has been organised . |
| 9 | Cousin Vic could not recall ever once having bumped into a cowboy in the street . |
| 10 | It 's always easier getting rid of a player rather than replacing one as Cavan found to their cost . |
| 11 | Once again Mining traded profitably and exceeded its budget during 1992 although the opencast coal business faces an uncertain future with the Government Review of the Coal Industry under way . |
| 12 | While the company was later to compromise on this method of operation , cyanide understandably enough having had its share of bad press , by suggesting gravity extraction ( which as well as being cleaner was also cheaper ) as a technical fix to the opposition to cyanide , the opposition had by then extended its attack to issues such as blasting , dust pollution and the contradiction between the short-term benefits mining would bring and the long-term development of the area threatened by mining . |
| 13 | Now so having issued B one , where 's it got to go ? |
| 14 | Or should I say boys , because you do n't strike me as ever having come into contact with any men . ’ |
| 15 | Would n't it be a greater waste of money though now having got the thing there though to shift it out the way completely Dorothy ? |
| 16 | I have long ago chosen a more tortuous path — most particularly having eschewed motherhood , a state I do not regret not having . |
| 17 | Well never having watched it I do n't really |
| 18 | And there 's the er in the platform there just having come in . |
| 19 | Then once having disposed of the bogus Robert Gravier , the real Mr G. could live on his swindled millions without fear of being chased by the law or his many creditors . |
| 20 | More than 50,000 Vietnamese ‘ boat people ’ waste their lives in squalid , overcrowded prison-like camps in Hong Kong , almost certainly having lost their gamble to secure a new life in the West . |
| 21 | At lunchtime the children had been normal , Stephen quiet but no longer looking drawn , Kate chattering about their parents return . |
| 22 | The Christian Church is alone in no longer having prescribed ritual to do with childbirth and menstruation . |
| 23 | Okay so having established then that you can look at the er er you can look at single channel currents , let's look at what those erm er currents can tell us . |
| 24 | She had spent too long getting dressed , changing again and again , because her thighs looked bigger in every pair of trousers that she put on . |
| 25 | For I liked — I was amazed , never yet having had time for or interest in such delights — I liked to be touched by him . |