Example sentences of "having [vb pp] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The contractors , having racked themselves to the limit to fight off all other comers , may be forced to cut back on programme spending , to the detriment of exactly the kind of endeavours which may give delight to many but have no great appeal to the masses . |
| 2 | Having heard myself announce my intention , I felt a peculiar sense of liberation . |
| 3 | And although the adultery had taken place abroad and several years ago , the Moons having hidden themselves away in Martinique — Amabel was not quite sure where that was — to give the scandal a chance to die down , what was one to do ? |
| 4 | Joseph Usher , Tace 's hero , had hidden himself in a chamber of the mine but had been driven out by hunger and thirst and , having given himself up , been taken away to trial and execution . |
| 5 | Having given herself to him , she was his . |
| 6 | Shaken , he imagined she was feeling guilty at having given herself so easily . |
| 7 | Having given herself a good talking to , and feeling ashamed of her misplaced , foolish pride , Laura made her way into the twins ' small bedroom , where Ross had just finished telling them a story . |
| 8 | Having divested themselves of their overstocks , they are now issuing some exciting new products and are showing signs of a return to profitability . |
| 9 | An LDP member of the Upper House , Masaru Urata , on Nov. 27 also accused Takeshita of having perjured himself and there were threats to begin legal proceedings against him . |
| 10 | Having enjoyed ourselves so much and being impressed by the professionalism shown by our instructor and other divers at the centre , we decided to pursue our new hobby when we returned home . |
| 11 | Brian Elphick had been on Lambeth 's housing list for twelve years , having insinuated himself on to it when engaged to a woman he never married . |
| 12 | Having extricated himself from the Archbishop 's service Mozart , this time accompanied by his mother , set off in search of an appointment elsewhere . |
| 13 | His final decision is in favour of whichever proves stronger , but the stronger for perhaps no more than the brief spell of fullest awareness in which he decides , afterwards to be panic-stricken at having committed himself to a choice which none the less he still knows in his heart was right . |
| 14 | Having committed himself by revealing defence secrets , such freedom of speech seemed a trivial matter . |
| 15 | Anselm had no doubt where justice lay : ‘ No man having put his hand to the plough [ that is to say , in this case , having committed himself to a monastic life ] and looking back , is fit for the kingdom of Heaven . ’ |
| 16 | After designing an architect 's dream , he will then have to try and make it functional , having committed himself to a particular shape and size . |
| 17 | When an emotionally articulate speaker wants to convey to me , not the fact that he is sad , but in what way and to what degree , his language becomes rhythmic and metaphorical , pulls me to his viewpoint to visualize his situation becomes a poetry which infects me with his melancholy and a rhetoric stirring me to help him , and afterwards perhaps I find myself regretting having committed myself to an action in his interests rather than my own . |
| 18 | The authorities are thought of as having committed themselves to the maintenance of a particular unemployment rate irrespective of the inflationary consequences and of being prepared to carry over this policy at least into period t . |
| 19 | So , once again , having committed itself to support the fictional or , at most , ‘ evolutionary ’ independence of Vietnam , the US was just as dependent as ever on France to make this vision a reality . |
| 20 | It was after ten when the long day ended , the king having busied himself visiting the wounded , including those from the enemy army ; he had , it soon appeared , decisively won the Battle of the Boyne for the loss of 500 men ; James 's casualties were put at 1600 . |
| 21 | Having booked herself in at a hotel where she was well known , she returned to the hospital and sat with her daughter throughout most of the evening . |
| 22 | Five months later he was found dead in his garage , having hanged himself . |
| 23 | But having let himself sink as far as he could go , he began to rise and with such gathering force and fury that he not only routed all who had disbelieved in him , he left even the believers agape . |
| 24 | Peach alone was in the house , having let himself in through the cat flap Stephen had fixed into the lower panel of the back door . |
| 25 | Ashamed of wanting her , ashamed of having let himself start their affair , Luke was no happier with it than she was . |
| 26 | It hurt very , very badly , but what hurt most was the awful feeling of having let herself down . |
| 27 | Having installed himself and his family in a comfortable , modern house in Hendon , Chapman spelled out his aims in the programme for the first match . |
| 28 | She was sitting at the mirror in her room , having excused herself from her cousins ' chatter minutes before . |
| 29 | But Pa is operating the machine himself today , it being Sunday and Ma having excused herself on account of the washing . |
| 30 | Having addressed themselves to the army and the treasury , the authorities turned to the Orthodox Church . |