Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] having a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Except that you were right when you once accused me of having a personal prejudice . |
| 2 | It always amuses me when Liberal Democrats accuse me of having a ministerial career . |
| 3 | This posture always made me suspect him of having a horizontal cleft slicing through his buttocks , betokening a random — but adaptive — mutation , taking humans closer to being office furniture . |
| 4 | Now , six months after an American biographer , Donald Spoto , did a hatchet job on Olivier , accusing him of having a homosexual affair with Danny Kaye , the key is to be removed from its resting place . |
| 5 | At a time when a good public image is essential for universities , English is unable to explain itself in ways immediately intelligible to the outsider , is notoriously riven with doubts and disagreements that prevent it from having a shared sense of purpose , and may at intervals erupt into crises that attract the wrong sort of publicity . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's his birthday , Monsieur Armand , but I 'm afraid we were spoiling it by having a political discussion . ’ |
| 7 | The dualism is deemed disastrous because it prevents us from having a unified conception of the world built around the natural sciences , and because it leaves the relationship between the mental and the physical an insoluble mystery . |
| 8 | If we come into line with Europe , le Europe will soon be putting pressure on us by having a common policy and the policy to save fossil er burning of fossil fuels is international . |