Example sentences of "[verb] having [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Officers went to Doncaster to interview a lorry driver after he reported having seen a young girl whose appearance was similar to Moira 's , in the company of two other lorry drivers the day after the Lanarkshire schoolgirl disappeared . |
| 2 | He reported having enjoyed the weekly game of football with other members of the youth unemployment centre . |
| 3 | All reported having had a wonderful day and causing much comment and amusement wherever they went . |
| 4 | To avoid having to remember the current state of the display , the attributes may be set explicitly by prefixing the control byte by a parameter count of 50 ( the character " 2 " ) and 43 ( " + " ) for " on " a 45 ( " - " ) for " off " . |
| 5 | They can not win , for the aim of the stressed work-force is to avoid having to embrace the discomfiting uncertainty by construing itself as victimized and manipulated . |
| 6 | The surprise decision to concentrate the main allied armoured thrust to the west of Kuwait was in part motivated by the desire to avoid having to make a frontal assault upon the extensive Iraqi fortifications on the Kuwaiti-Saudi Arabian border . |
| 7 | Hans Stuck having survived an uncharacteristic spin during the rain with the car he shared with Jonathan Palmer . |
| 8 | Mondello , who had been acquitted on murder and manslaughter charges but who admitted having incited a 30-strong mob to attack Hawkins , received 5@1/3 to 16 years in the form of four consecutive sentences for riot and other felony charges . |
| 9 | The Romanian government maintained cordial relations with the Soviet Union , taking a cautious approach to the situation in the neighbouring Moldavian SSR , most of the territory known having formed the Romanian region Bessarabia before its annexation by the Soviet Union in 1940 [ see p. 37257 ] . |
| 10 | Abbey Mill is perhaps one of the best known having played an important role in Mrs Craik 's book of 1852 , John Halifax Gentleman , where it is described as Abel Fletcher 's Mill . |
| 11 | She was spared having to find a tactful reply , however , when his employer immediately , and unceremoniously , thrust the dog lead at him and instructed , ‘ You can take Azor , I have to go out — I 'll drive Miss Kingsdale to her hotel . ’ |
| 12 | Mountbatten tried to reassure him , but added , ‘ I foresee having to fight a civil war against 10000 armed Burmese soldiers at a time when it is vital that my forces should be better employed . ’ |
| 13 | She remembered having seem a small café down one of the streets that surrounded the station and turned off the main road to find it . |
| 14 | Coun David Smith said having made the original planning blunder in permitting the abattoir they should not compound this by allowing the work . |
| 15 | The deceased was brought in by Anubis and , turning to each of the gods in turn , he or she denied having committed a particular sin . |
| 16 | Despite all the troubles , I never heard a woman say she regretted having supported the long strike . |