Example sentences of "having [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | Having witnessed the horrifying poverty and hunger in countries where there is just not enough food to feed the teeming masses , he feels depressed and worried about the future . |
| 3 | Possibly one reason for the author 's attitude was his ignorance of the geography of the country ; a striking instance of this is his statement that in 1461 the earl of March , whom he had rightly described as being in Wales , arrived in England having enjoyed a prosperous voyage and favoured by the west wind ( 14 , p.532 ) . |
| 4 | Having considered the methodological issues and epidemiological terms for describing disease in population this chapter is concerned with the mental health of older people . |
| 5 | For some , this depth is seen as having imposed an institutional bias and rigidity on the economy from as long ago as the late nineteenth century . |
| 6 | The psychological structure for the talker requires , broadly speaking , two kinds of pretence : ( 1 ) an emotional one of having made a momentous decision and ( 2 ) a fictitious factual background . |
| 7 | Theoretically , it is conceivable that , say , experiencing regret ( the verb ) at having made a wrong decision and depicting regret ( the adjective ) are a different genre . |
| 8 | By 4 am Gary Humphreys was dead , having suffered a broken jaw and choked to death on his own blood . |
| 9 | An hour later he was in Chesney , having seen no animate thing but two bumble bees and a rook . |
| 10 | I suggested to Ben that he might produce Grimes and Ben , having seen The Bartered Bride and , I think , enjoyed it , agreed . |
| 11 | Now that 's partly due to having got a good result and performance , but more so because of the feeling of togetherness we now have in the squad . |
| 12 | Having excoriated the foolish historians and orientalists , however , Enzensberger nonetheless contradicts himself by rhetorical resort to a vague history . |
| 13 | Boasting a record of never having had a serious incident or accident in its history , Aurigny is careful about the selection of its pilots , most of whom are mature and experienced aircrew with backgrounds in airline and/or military flying . |
| 14 | All reported having had a wonderful day and causing much comment and amusement wherever they went . |
| 15 | Lee listened to the patio door closing quietly , and felt ashamed , ignoble , as if she were embarrassed about having had an epileptic fit or as if she had broken wind in the middle of a fairy-tale . |
| 16 | Indeterminate colitis — six patients had a subtotal colectomy before diagnosis , three having had an ileorectal anastomosis and three an ileostomy with a retained rectal stump . |
| 17 | Having admired the kingly tomb and added the name ‘ O'Connor ’ to my list of families who might accept the Irish throne , I wandered off to the Abbey Hotel . |
| 18 | Having exhausted the pictorial possibilities and/or the patience of your subjects , switch from record-pause to stop and then to the tape-running controls . |
| 19 | Engineering was a considerable family influence , his great-grandfather Robert Stirling having built a threshing engine in 1758 and his father having invented the hot-air engine and inspired C. W. Siemens 's regenerative furnace for the melting and reheating of steel . |
| 20 | In a statement issued shortly after Patten 's departure on Oct. 23 , Lu Ping , head of the Chinese State Council 's Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office , accused Patten of having violated the Basic Law and also of having reneged on a series of secret Sino-British agreements on " convergence " between Hong Kong 's current political system and its post-1997 status as a special administrative region . |
| 21 | In addition I explained to her that , having found the original event and looked at it through adult eyes , there was no danger that she would put an end to one problem only to replace it with another , as might have happened if we had not investigated its origins . |
| 22 | Having defined the key term and having cited relevant facts , the author 's final sentence points the accusing finger at liberals : ‘ Dare we say it — it is they , not we , who are prejudiced . ’ |
| 23 | They seemed well in control after 20 minutes , having taken an early lead and looked a class better than their mid-table opponents . |
| 24 | and I , I told him I was n't stupid enough to keep money in the house as an ex er as an ex lawyer and erm , where , er it so happened as I say that I talked to he , he did n't take any thing in fact at the end he apologise for having chosen the wrong house and he |
| 25 | Pulled in by the cops , having to rescue a naked vicar and now it looked as if I was going to have to talk down a paranoid lesbian . |
| 26 | Having described the main shrines and Sufi festivals and mystics , Khan goes on to list the city 's secular personalities : the nobles , the musicians and the great femmes fatales . |