Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [v-ing] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paintwork badly needing done , |
| 2 | An unemployed actor went to his agent to complain about his agent not having found him any work in months . |
| 3 | They had become the first team ever to escape relegation from the top division not having won an away game . |
| 4 | When one calculates , for example , the beginning of the universe , using the methods you described , surely you 're making great assumptions about the laws of physics not having changed ? |
| 5 | Only a handful of players from their original selection turned out , the management obviously having decided that they were not going to give even a hint of their championship formation . |
| 6 | Edward , installed by then with his brother in the Garden Tower , was informed of the turn of events by Brackenbury , the protector not having visited his nephews since the day he had accepted the crown at the Guildhall . |
| 7 | The same definition applies to a beamer , the law previously having taken as its height gauge the batsman 's shoulder as he crouched in his stance . |
| 8 | Tonight , the trapdoor again having failed to open , they 'll be back at Shielfield against East Stirling . |
| 9 | The Society found the Somerset Levels and Moors in particular to be in a " perilous state " with continued drainage resulting in a decline in breeding waders and the bewick 's swan , teal , lapwing , snipe and black-tailed godwit all becoming threatened . |
| 10 | Similarly , the unemployed found the focus of their social circle also becoming centred on heroin . |
| 11 | Morris was to become his architectural collaborator , in effect succeeding Campbell in this role , the contact presumably having originated at Pembroke House , the building of which appears to have constituted Lord Herbert 's architectural apprenticeship . |
| 12 | The combination bathroom and toilet was bitterly cold , and the water was freezing , hot water not having come through yet . |
| 13 | By this time the aircraft was at a height of approximately 300 feet with the landing gear still down , the crew not having had time to select it up because of their preoccupation with avoiding the bird flocks . |
| 14 | The fall in serum pepsinogen C during combined therapy ( 20 ( 3 ) µg/l ) was also significant ( p<0.01 ) , when compared with values during omeprazole alone ( 37 ( 9 ) µg/l ) , but the result on the day after stopping failed to reach statistical significance ( 26 ( 8 ) v 34 ( 9 ) µg/l ) . |
| 15 | The luckless Devine was also at fault as the visitors added a second with a penalty eight minutes from the end , the keeper needlessly fouling Totten after hacking the ball clear . |
| 16 | As the acrid smoke cleared , the Marines advanced , keeping to the edges of the doorway , which was not locked , the mechanism apparently having jammed . |
| 17 | For example , when we complained about our laundry not getting done at the hotel , and about our rooms not being done , it was Sun who went to the hotel and sorted things out . |
| 18 | She turned up at his flat not having bothered to go home and change , more than a little tired and jaded after an extremely hard working day . |
| 19 | Freud saw attachment to the mother as becoming , during the early years of childhood , imbued with the emerging sexual impulses ; and the father rapidly becoming seen ( not usually consciously ) as an obstacle to gratification of these impulses . |
| 20 | The student once having obtained these skills would then be encouraged to extrapolate these in the wider area of general study . |
| 21 | Although Charles Fleetwood [ q.v. ] , the lord deputy , grumbled about his getting priority for his Irish land claims — Blackwell and his father both having invested in Ireland as ‘ adventurers ’ and part of his own pay arrears being due in this way — two years later John Thurloe [ q.v. ] , secretary of state , thought his conduct perfectly reasonable . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , where ‘ criminal lunatics ’ are concerned , the All-India Committee ( 1983 : para 3.24 ) produced the finding that ‘ Some have stayed in prison for more than 20 years without their trial even having begun . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ After all , he is still poor Stair 's heir , poor Stair never having married . ’ |
| 24 | Such a thing not having happened for many centuries , the idea , even though the smell of cordite had spread across the Channel and could be picked up in the Charing Cross Road , seemed difficult to envisage . |
| 25 | you will be expected to have done some research , done some preparation before coming along to the lesson , if you go along to the lesson not having done that , you will be able to play back certain tips from what the other people say , but you will not er , you will find that |
| 26 | It is not uncommon to find the spaces still blank in early books , the scribe not having arrived before the books were put on the market . |
| 27 | Similarly , Congress played no role of consequence in the Cuban Missile crisis and Lyndon Johnson , by the end of his presidency , had more than half a million troops in Vietnam without Congress ever having declared war against the North Vietnamese . |
| 28 | His health never having recovered after imprisonment seven years before , he died in Bovey Tracey , Devonshire , from a heart attack 12 November 1924 , shortly after retaining his seat in the general election . |
| 29 | He is severely microcephalic , his brain not having grown sufficiently following the injury . |
| 30 | THE ninth round of Arab-Israeli peace talks , which started in Washington amid unusually high hopes at the end of April , ended a fortnight later having achieved nothing . |