Example sentences of "of [pos pn] [noun] [v-ing] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bank finally agreed to loan sixteen thousand pounds for the business plus overdraught facilities and a further nine thousand pounds secured on our client 's home repayable over five years , any further mortgage over a future was to be arranged elsewhere and my Lord er will hear that in fact the , having the sale of their home having been completed on the fifth of December the plaintiffs were then homeless for some three months living with their daughter until such times as they were able to arrange a mortgage on their present property with the Halifax . |
| 2 | He stopped the team and found that Brusie , now Tony 's lead dog , had a serious stomach wound , one of her teats having been almost torn off . |
| 3 | Notwithstanding his extreme youth , his output was prodigious and far-ranging , and , with Keith Douglas and Alun Lewis [ qq.v. ] , he must be regarded as one of the outstanding poets of World War II , so much of his work having been inspired , before his brief sortie into battle , by an internal preparation for death . |
| 4 | But how would these be preserved if he were writing them now , and what would the historian of the future make of the sanitised , word-processed , spell-checked notes that might be left behind with every trace of the intellectual evolution of his argument having been edited and re-edited from the text ? |
| 5 | And in the era of John Major 's classlessness , it was not wise of Waldegrave in complimenting the new Speaker to speak of his ancestors having been dragged to that very chair at the time of the Black Death . |
| 6 | You have this feeling of your house having been invaded and your things gone through |
| 7 | Perkin , on her other side , murmured something to get her attention and for a while I watched Tremayne make the best of our table having been graced by the sponsor 's wife , a gushing froth of a lady in unbecoming lemon . |