① There is no inviting so many people at a time.

= It is impossible to invite so many people at a time.

= We cannot invite so many people at a time.

② She thought her family should all retire to the country for the summer, for there was no living in the city in this sultry season.

③ One shakes hands with a host or hostess on arriving at or leaving a party.

④ Nero was unpopular with the people of Rome for having built a large palace in the middle of the city.

⑤ In 1585 his father became bankrupt, and the next year Shakespeare left Stratford for London, some people say, on account of having got into trouble over deer-stealing.

⑥ You ought to reap the harvest of your own sowing.

⑦ She objects to his joining the club. =She objects to him joining the club.

⑧ I don’t like your going out alone at night.=I don’t like you going out alone at night.

⑨ At first he refused the money on account of my having helped him, but I insisted on his taking it.

⑩ Man is sometimes more generous when he has little money than when he has plenty: perhaps to prevent his being thought to have but little.

⑪ He is convinced of the report being false.