Example sentences of "[v-ing] [been] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fenella told me , breathily and all excited , that they were going to operate and we 'd all have to leave , but it was all right really because Salome 's mum ( who was ever so nice ) had turned up having been called by Frank and was in there talking to the surgeons . |
| 2 | Having been dismissed from parade , the children race downstairs to where the Rangers ' 22 horses and Ponies are housed in splendour . |
| 3 | Having been damaged in January by allegations of marital infidelity , Clinton began the month with poll ratings which suggested that he had once again established a significant lead over his Democratic rivals . |
| 4 | Furthermore , my passport was lost in a postal strike in France , and the wheelbarrow was not yet ready , Hawker Siddeley having been hampered by staff shortage and technical snags . |
| 5 | Indeed , the presence of oxides of nitrogen is indicated by the orange colour of the nuclear mushroom cloud at high altitudes , which is a consequence of some of the nitric oxide having been converted to nitrogen dioxide . |
| 6 | The Birmingham Six case was the latest in a series where convictions had been overturned in cases arising from the Irish Republican Army 's 1974 public house bombings in England , the " Guildford Four " having been freed in October 1989 [ see p. 36983 ] and the " Maguire seven " in June 1990 [ see p. 37536 ] . |
| 7 | Having been freed from NHS control and from any control by local people , trust managers were now saying they did n't want to answer to the Health Secretary either . |
| 8 | The kitchen clock whirred and struck three — that is , its hammer flailed the air three times , having been bent by Mrs. Jordan , the cook , so that it would fail to strike the chimes . |
| 9 | ‘ It having been stated to Samuel Whitbread Esq. , and to me … that Mary Flint , now in the Bedford Infirmary , is in danger of death in consequence of the wounds and injuries which she received from you , we intend to take her examination at the said Infirmary on Tuesday 8th October inst. at 1 o'clock of the afternoon of which I give you this notice that you may if you think proper be present . ’ |
| 10 | Hekmatyar 's and Masud 's forces entered Kabul on April 25 , the latter having been placed in charge of a six-member Kabul City Security Commission , created by the IJC in Peshawar . |
| 11 | Pravda , formerly the newspaper of the Soviet Communist Party , announced its intention to increase publication from three to five times weekly from Sept. 1 , having been saved from bankruptcy by establishing a joint venture with a Greek businessman who retained a controlling share . |
| 12 | there was no evidence of any physical injury having been sustained before death |
| 13 | But the perambulating jury dismissed these proceedings as having been made under duress of Hugh Despenser , then Edward I 's Justice of the Forest . |
| 14 | I turn now to consider the arguments advanced on behalf of Woolwich in support of its right to recover the payments it made as money had and received or as having been made under duress , two grounds which it was accepted shaded into one another . |
| 15 | Dunlop 's claim could not be supported by any record of a lump-sum payment having been made to Kilpatrick . |
| 16 | Although many more ancient monuments and ruins existed than survive today , they were either thought of as relatively recent ruins or natural phenomena , or else they were explained away as having been made by gods or legendary heroes . |
| 17 | Accordingly , there is no possibility that any moneys paid into the account by Barclays Bank Plc. or Kleinwort Benson Ltd. would still be there now , the last payments made by those parties pursuant to the interest rate swaps transactions having been made in September 1989 and September 1987 respectively . |
| 18 | Having been sacked from Ulm in 1934 for excess of talent , he survived in Aachen only until 1942 . |
| 19 | Having been replaced as head of ITV 's sports committee by LWT 's controller of programmes , Greg Dyke , he is off to be chairman of TSL , an independent production company . |
| 20 | Despite the protests , local elections for the country 's large provincial and metropolitan assemblies went ahead on June 20 as scheduled — the smaller assemblies having been elected in May , the first such elections in more than three decades . |
| 21 | The House elects the President of the Republic for a five-year term , the current incumbent , Vincent Tabone , having been elected in April 1989 [ see p. 36599 ] . |
| 22 | In what observers saw as a trade-off , Yeltsin announced that legislative bodies would serve the remaining 2@1/2 years of their full term ( having been elected in March 1990 ) and that more than 80 directly appointed heads of administration responsible to the President would continue in office ( a moratorium on local elections was due to be lifted on Dec. 1 ) . |
| 23 | ( The qualification " available " is necessary because some list candidates would have disappeared , having been elected in constituencies . ) |
| 24 | Since having been accepted by YWAM God has confirmed in many ways the correctness of Gary 's decision . |
| 25 | Having been defeated by politics , the NIREX managers decided to employ some of their own . |
| 26 | This remarkable pioneer created twelve of these machines , of which eight still survive , the remaining four having been lost in battle or exploded during trial runs . |
| 27 | The manager had watched Rangers play Dundee United at Ibrox last month and has therefore seen Walter Smith 's side put under pressure over two games — a two-goal lead having been lost in Glasgow before Ally McCoist eventually scored the winner . |
| 28 | Elsewhere , be sure to see the full-size portrait of the writer ( known as Il Grande , by the Italians ) by de Notaris , completed after Manzoni 's death , the exact dimensions of the man having been collected by post-mortem measuring . |
| 29 | The instigator of this rival was the Town Clerk , Maj. Henry Coppock , Liberal and Dissenter , and his new school , the Stockport High School , eventually opened on 27th July 1857 , having been built on Dodge Hill at a cost of £1,250 . |
| 30 | Having been spoiled with John Richardson , we now expect more . |