Example sentences of "having just [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Having just said all that — if the part I played allowed me to change my style I would probably have it all cut off — I 'd love to try a short style . |
| 32 | Having just received the whole kingdom from him , they ca n't wait to get rid of him . |
| 33 | Here for instance is her rendering of Emma Woodhouse 's thoughts , having just received a most unwelcome proposal of marriage from Mr Elton whom she had supposed to be in love with her protégée , Harriet , as a result of her own matchmaking contrivances : |
| 34 | When Noël Coward viewed this apparition , having just received and been pleased with his portrait-photograph , he said , ‘ Parkinson , your photography is very good , but you will learn that people who have talent dress like stockbrokers ’ . |
| 35 | Having just received our annual pay rise , it brought to our attention yet again the anomalies in the present pay structure . |
| 36 | Rangers , having just survived a lucky escape , launched their first attack . |
| 37 | Often there is another problem that clients have complained of ie sometimes the staff coming on shift are full of energy and very committed and full of ideas — the client , having just survived one shift with a previous enthusiastic staff , may be reluctant to start the whole process again . |
| 38 | ‘ Scuse me , but I think you 'll find the wine 's run out , ’ the speaker added , having just registered Loretta 's presence . |
| 39 | The Australians even refused to sing their traditional victory song at the end of the Adelaide Test , having just gone to an unbeatable 3–0 series lead . |
| 40 | Wherever the game is played , and the possibility of alternate years in Manchester and Sydney will be discussed in the coming weeks , one team will always go into the match having just become champions , while the other will be at the start of their first defence . |
| 41 | The Countryside Commission were to sign a deal with the Duke of Devonshire in September to grant him Capital Transfer Tax exemption ( estimated to be worth £12,000,000 ) in turn for large parts of this 130km 2 in the Dales becoming a public heritage centre under the Heritage Estate arrangement introduced by Leeds MP Denis Healey in 1975 to prevent the breakup of large estates ( the MP himself having just become President of the National Trust 's Yorkshire Moors & Dales Appeal ) . |
| 42 | ‘ Is it permitted for me to call you Cara ? ’ he enquired , having just asked that she use his first name . |
| 43 | So , two days on the road and here I am sitting in the sun in a café opposite the , having just eaten and drunk the compulsory croque-monsieur and hot chocolate . |
| 44 | Having just secured world rights for her first book , she 's leading a life of food and snooze ; interrupted only by the occasional television interview . |
| 45 | I am prepared — delighted even — to indulge in a little D-I-Y ( having just built a cabinet and hood for my 36″ × 18″ × 18″ and got the taste for it … ) . |
| 46 | Class 37 No 37234 pulls forward through the disused station at Tondu on 15 April 1982 , having just run round its train of MDVs carrying coal from Garw to Ogmore . |
| 47 | It was a notable achievement by 24-year-old Stich , who has slipped from third to 15th in the world rankings since his 1991 Wimbledon triumph , while Krajicek , with the biggest serve in the world game , is the up and coming star , having just moved into the top 10 . |
| 48 | Micky and the two girls were looking for a fourth person — someone having just moved out and on . |
| 49 | I remember the sinking feeling still : 1964 , having just moved up to Leeds and my first day at Almscliff — then , and probably still , the best swather of tall poppies in the land . |
| 50 | Crawford jumped at the chance to star alongside Barbra Streisand and Walter Matthau in a Hollywood musical , having just turned down 10,000 to appear in a British film . |
| 51 | Two a.m. the next morning found me dragging my aching body and borrowed paste board back towards home , having just stuck the last piece in place . |
| 52 | Justin first met Michael in a South London club , the former fed up with being in ‘ various no hope psychedelic funk bands ’ and the latter having just left rap mob Nasty Groove . |
| 53 | Having just shelled out for yet another year 's subscription to fabbo Guitarist magazine , I was raisy-eyebrowed to see under ‘ Postscript ’ in September 's issue : ‘ … will not only win that automatic free year 's Letter of the Month subscription … blah , blah , blah , blah … ’ |
| 54 | where the Carniki Trust is in Dunfermline having just managed to get there on the petrol in the tank erm |
| 55 | He turned up at a party one night having just managed to get back from Italy where he 'd been supposed to be studying and it came out that he 'd been to Rome , too , and had actually met her father and knew their story — better than she did — and had sat at the feet of the Marchesa Giulia . |
| 56 | To accuse Banquo of ‘ unkindness ’ , unnatural ingratitude , in not attending , having just had him murdered , is one of the greatest perversions of truth and goodness in Shakespeare , and is immediately answered by the appearance of the ghost . |
| 57 | ‘ How do we feel now ’ , asked Peter Stansill in It , ‘ in these first strange cold days of our next winter , having just had our minds raped by rationality ? … |
| 58 | Having just had a row with the acerbic Redwood , Kelly decided to apply for the job as assistant to whoever the new paper appointed as their Belfast representative . |
| 59 | William Walker , an official from the State Department , remembered seeing him rush to catch a flight to Central America , having just got off a flight from Europe , unkempt , a flight-bag over his shoulder . |
| 60 | Maggie was sitting reading a magazine when Laura came into the kitchen having just got the twins off to sleep . |