Example sentences of "having [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is implausible that , having received a fat return yesterday , investors will meekly shovel tomorrow 's cash into an unpromising project . |
| 2 | There 's a power cut ; the lights go out and we light candles and gas lamps and end up — a hard core of seven of us ; Andy , me , Howie , another two local lads and a couple of the traveller boys — down in the snooker room where there 's a beat-up looking table and a leak in the ceiling that turns the whole of the stained , green-baize surface into a millimetre-shallow marsh , water dripping from each pocket and dribbling down the bulky legs to the sopping carpet , and we play snooker by the light of the hissing gas lamps , having to hit the white ball really hard even for delicate shots because of the extra rolling resistance the water causes , and the balls make a zizzing , ripping noise as they race across the table and sometimes you can see spray curving up behind them and I 'm feeling really drunk and a bit stoned from a couple of strong Js smoked out in the garden earlier with the travellers but I think this dimly lit water-hazard snooker is just hilarious and I 'm laughing maniacally at it all and I put an arm round Andy 's neck at one point and say , You know I love you , old buddy , and is n't friendship and love what 's it 's really all about ? and why ca n't people just see that and just be nice to each other ? except there are just so many complete bastards in the world , but Andy just shakes his head and I try to kiss him and he gently fends me off and steadies me against one wall and props me up with a snooker cue against my chest and I think this is really funny for some reason and laugh so much I fall over and have distinct problems getting up again and get carried to my room by Andy and one of the travellers and dumped on the bed and fall instantly asleep . |
| 3 | I think er , we need to er , look at this issue of carers far more rigorously , and I 'm very sad that the government , having made a great play about back to basics and er , encouraging family values , erm , are not in fact prepared er , to do something to er , alleviate unemployment by encouraging employers to make adequate provision to ensure that people with dependants can actually work . |
| 4 | They are going to a planet celled Malecandra ( which turns out to be Mars ) and , having made a previous recce there , they are under the impression that the inhabitants are fierce and eat men . |
| 5 | Later in the session Noell had to defend himself against accusations of having made an illicit profit out of transporting captured Irish , Scottish , and English Royalist soldiers , political prisoners , and convicted criminals to Barbados ; he denied not the facts of such transportation but the allegations of cruelty and profiteering arising therefrom . |
| 6 | I 'd heard tales about some people having seen an old man down there but not for a long while , he would n't hurt anyone so your lad need n't be scared of him . ’ |
| 7 | A well-known tortoise , named Jonathan , lives in the governor 's garden on St Helena Island and was once famous for allegedly having seen the exiled Napoleon there . |
| 8 | Having seen the reassured mother smilingly on her way , Lindsey switched off the computer and set about clearing her desk . |
| 9 | But ringing has shown that the same birds return year after year to patrol the same wintering areas , the oldest birds having done the round trip up to 30 times . |
| 10 | Having become the political expression not just of the state appropriate to Ireland but of Irish catholics as well , the Irish nationalist tradition contained and still contains within its confines a culture of violence antithetical to the church 's traditional teaching . |
| 11 | The southern States stand out very strongly as having experienced a Democratic hegemony then , as they did for the entire century beforehand . |
| 12 | Having forced the Old King on to the defensive , Philip was able , in subsequent negotiations , to demand that Richard stop his harassment of Toulouse . |
| 13 | Here in Stuttgart today we shall see the final of an unofficial mini-Masters , the masters having taken a lucrative detour away from the pressures of the circuit . |
| 14 | An earnout will provide a purchaser with a cash flow advantage in not having to pay the extra consideration upfront . |
| 15 | The French Dragoons , content with having chased the lone horseman away , did not follow him . |
| 16 | Having established the broad principles above , we hope that most of the laws will seem " clearly true " . |