Example sentences of "having [adv] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having successfully manoeuvred an inoffensive farewell , one discovers that one has left a book in the room . |
| 2 | As far as Mr Collier 's point er alternative policies concerned , I think listening to it and only half having perhaps digested the full implication , I think really as a matter of principle we 're not un unsympathetic to a lot of what what a lot of people are suggesting there . |
| 3 | Thus , they are viewed as having in mind an analytical model which they believe explains how the economy works . |
| 4 | Having impetuously killed the English sheriff at Lanark — perhaps , according to a fifteenth-century minstrel , in revenge for the killing of his own wife by the English — and been proclaimed an outlaw , he fled into Ettrick forest to assemble a force of rebels against the domination of English governors and garrisons . |
| 5 | Having apparently made a good case ( to wit , the UK now spends nearly two per cent less per head on education than in 1980 ) it starts talking about education . |
| 6 | I asked quietly , my stomach having suddenly acquired a large ice cube . |
| 7 | That morning they went to a travel agent in the Unter den Linden to buy tickets , having only booked a single journey from London . |
| 8 | If the Burton Group , having already cut a substantial number of jobs in 1991 , can find a further 2,000 ( albeit balanced by the creation of 3,000 part-time jobs ) surplus to requirements , when profits are already recovering , others across British industry are sure to follow . |
| 9 | Now , having already risked a considerable outlay on refitting and storing the ship , he was faced with the possibility of having to sail from Polruan with several hands short of a full complement . |
| 10 | The Consortium would have to decide if it could afford not to fight McAlpine , having already made a major investment ( politically and financially ) in the case . |
| 11 | Little Polveir is going for the National treble , having already won the Scottish version in 1987 and the Seagram Grand National last season . |
| 12 | Having just received the whole kingdom from him , they ca n't wait to get rid of him . |
| 13 | Rangers , having just survived a lucky escape , launched their first attack . |
| 14 | She did not add that it had blood on it , although she knew that too , having just read the forensic report . |
| 15 | Having finally reached the small intestine , they sink their hooks into the gut wall and start to feed on blood . |
| 16 | Having thus grasped the important principle that kinship terms reflect social usage , Morgan was able to go further and indeed to anticipate later research in his perceptive assessment of the social advantages of the classificatory system . |
| 17 | Having thus identified the right way to do the job and explained why it was not practically possible for Owen to adopt it , they then proceed to attack the substance of his proposal . |
| 18 | The last thing I wanted was to find myself slithering down the steep craggy section above the corrie , having mistakenly bypassed the Y-shaped gully that led back to the car , yet I could sense I was getting it all a bit wrong . |
| 19 | After having carefully removed the browned edge of the fillet he sliced the meat quickly and evenly . |
| 20 | Having now accumulated a small amount of capital and a tiny corps of agents in European cities , Reuter moved to London in 1851 and set up an office in the Royal Exchange Buildings . |
| 21 | Two weeks ago , I revisited Zagreb having previously led a parliamentary delegation there a year ago . |
| 22 | The Sultanate of Oman became independent in 1951 , having previously had a special relationship with the United Kingdom . |
| 23 | He took over the health brief with a reputation as a social policy reformer , having previously reviewed the social security system with the aim of making it fairer . |
| 24 | The calf 's mother had died from the disease 15 months earlier , having allegedly contracted the infectious agent from bone meal . |
| 25 | He ignores the profiles these tests produce , having yet to see a meaningful correlation between personality and business success . |
| 26 | The squeeze was on from the start , Mark Bowen clearing off the line in the fourth minute and again in the 84th from Terry Hurlock 's drive as Norwich maintained a startling statistic of having yet to concede an away goal . |
| 27 | The rebuff is that , having painstakingly laid a firm foundation , I must , in all honesty , now kick part of it away by revealing that certain misguided authors and publishers ( especially the latter ) have unscrupulously omitted all the data we require , printing books without dates or any reference to previous editions . |
| 28 | My prize for the most colourful quote goes to the scientist who said that the likelihood of humans having come about as the result of evolution was the same as a tornado in a scrapyard having accidentally assembled a Jumbo jet . |
| 29 | Having recently braved the innard-freezing weather to sit my CBT ( Compulsory Basic Training ) motorcycle test part one , I am chastened . |
| 30 | Having recently announced a new health warnings to be placed on packets in fulfilment of the EC Labelling Directive , the Secretary of State for Health , William Waldegrave , has now reportedly agreed with the tobacco industry that the same warnings will also be used on advertising . |