Example sentences of "and having [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel having made his views clear by letter and having gained the support of the National Association of Water Power Users , no summons was issued . |
| 2 | Thus provided with capital and having gained almost a decade of experience in the iron industry , he resolved to set up a similar ironworks with the assistance of his two elder sons , John and Archibald . |
| 3 | Having fewer children , of course , gives rise to a situation which so many 20th-century parents will understand only too well : that one minute there are young babies in the house needing constant attention , while the next , in the twinkling of an eye it seems , Darby and Joan are staring around an empty house and having to re-learn the art of living with each other all over again . |
| 4 | Paul tells the Ephesians that having heard the word of truth and having believed the good news of salvation , they are ‘ in Christ ’ and have been sealed with the Holy Spirit who was promised long ago ( 1:13 , cf. 2 Cor. 2:21 ) . |
| 5 | But if that were the explanation , it would imply that the movement was only willing to act in the general interest when the Labour Party formed an assured Government , and having decided that its defeat was impending , abandoned any sense of responsibility save for the unions ' immediate , sectional interests . |
| 6 | We further agreed that we would make no promises and twist no arms , and having decided on this general strategy , my friends urged me to leave the campaign to them . |
| 7 | For several years he has been a helper , and having decided to return to Birmingham where he had a distinguished career as a teacher of English , he resolved to give us the greater part of the library , collected over many years by himself and his late wife . |
| 8 | Curiosity got the better of Yanto however , and having vaulted the fence , he made his way over the one hundred and fifty yards of re-claimed field that separated the pub from the riverbank . |
| 9 | By extracting the oil too quickly , the engineer risks losing touch with the larger deposit and having to drill again . |
| 10 | Perhaps she should have had a brother or sister for Tina , though being well into her forties by then and having waited twelve years for Tina to come along made that impossible . |
| 11 | sort of going just a short way along and having to reverse back out again |
| 12 | The vacancy was filled first by the Rev. H. Cottam , Rector of St. Mary 's , Crumpsall , who knew the school well , having been one of the Annual Examiners and having stood in during a previous illness , of Hamilton 's in 1875 . |
| 13 | She made a very positive effort to be the right kind of person to be around — in other words , she was not a liability , she was an asset , an extremely good cook and a very good organiser , and having discovered that we both went to the same school in Switzerland where French was the main language taught , we would enjoy talking to each other in French , much to the annoyance of David who could n't understand the language . ’ |
| 14 | I decided that in my present state I could n't face Moscow , and having discovered about the hot , spring baths of Budapest and the chess players who stand in water at 76 degrees Celsius , leisurely moving the pieces , decided that it was the place for me . |
| 15 | On seventeenth of August nineteen sixty seven object of defeating the option and having discovered through the result of his solicitors that the option had not been registered , sold and been paid the farm five hundred pounds and after the sale by registering the option under the land chartered act and on the sixth of October nineteen sixty seventeen could have exercised the option and neither or his wife complied with the notice and on March twenty eighth nineteen sixty eight wife died and on the twenty seventh of January nineteen seventy commenced proceedings against his father against his mother 's executors the declaration of the option was . |
| 16 | And having saved John Smith 's skin at the Labour party Conference , with his rumbustious performance in the one member , one vote debate , Mr Prescot knew he was in a position to call in his debts . |
| 17 | Perhaps he had believed he was to go with the main reconnaissance party , and having written his last letter did not like to write to me again to cause me what he thought would be further confusion and anxiety . |
| 18 | ‘ Picture yourselves , Nurses , feeling ill and wretched and having to put up with someone you disliked touching you , attending to you . |
| 19 | General Hawley had only reached Edinburgh on 6 January , and having built up his strength , wrote optimistically of ‘ driving the rascally scum out of Stirling ’ . |
| 20 | And after watching Fox initial a three-year contract , Northern chairman Chris Caisley commented : ‘ It 's been the most difficult job I 've had since being here , both financially and having to deal with Featherstone . ’ |
| 21 | According to the environment minister , Yuriy Kostenko , environmental problems and having to deal with them is costing the country between 15-20 per cent of its gross national product . |
| 22 | Having known him in this country and having travelled around Israel with him , I know that he is tough and resilient . |
| 23 | " I 'll think o n't , " he said , and having drained his tankard again , pushed his chair back , tossed a few pence to Marion , and elbowed his way to the door . |
| 24 | ‘ Sport was the love of my life and having to give it up has left a void , ’ said Rosemary . |
| 25 | mental institution and having to give up his job because once they get that position if they speak out , in any way , for instance the Civil Service you ca n't speak out at all even if you can see something that you know is wrong |
| 26 | It was n't just the job , and having to give up my Communications course — ’ |
| 27 | Ruby had told of buying a pair of corsets and having to carry them along Church Street unwrapped . |
| 28 | And having prepared the Tory Party to lose under Mr Major , will his victory now assume the misleading proportions of a sensational personal triumph ? |
| 29 | Having reasserted the need for a national framework and having listed a set of general educational aims , the ministers set out ‘ the approach to the curriculum which they consider should now be followed in the years ahead ’ . |
| 30 | The Escort has been one of Britain 's top-sellers for many years and having tested various examples of the latest in the range I have to give a curate 's egg verdict . |