Example sentences of "[pron] having [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , James Norris , an American and the person who had put forward Barbara Ward 's name in the first instance , found himself having to deliver a special address , and in Latin , at six hours ' notice . |
| 2 | Franca 's tall glistening machine , still intact and in charge in spite of her having become a running spark , inducted these new , obvious , problems with a certain satisfaction . |
| 3 | But there are particular areas like this , you having to wait a long time and if you come into the building to go and see a film and you 've you 've left an hour to , to have some food you , you really should n't be missing the film because |
| 4 | ‘ So you do n't think there 's any chance of anybody having put a fake certificate into the files ? — years after the event ? ’ |
| 5 | James Macrae 's wealth is shown also by his having lent a large sum of money to Glasgow City Council in 1745 to assist the city through financial difficulties created by requisitions enforced on the city by Bonnie Prince Charlie and his Jacobite army as they retreated northwards to Culloden and defeat . |
| 6 | Among poisonous jellyfish and their relatives the Portuguese man-o'-war ( opposite ) is notorious as a killer , but despite its reputation there is no authenticated record of it having caused a human death . |