Example sentences of "having [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | In early 1981 , Reagan and his aides spoke confidently of his having received an impressive mandate at the recent elections , and many in Congress and the media seemed to find the argument convincing . |
| 2 | Brough Park 's leading performer of late , Burnhope Jimmy , will be strongly fancied to win the Long March Stayers Stakes , over 670 metres , having won a similar event at Middlesbrough earlier in the month . |
| 3 | Because of my knee cartilage operation , I started the 1990–91 season having done no downhill training at all during the autumn , a situation which I had not been in since 1980 . |
| 4 | She came to Queen 's Park about 11 years ago , having had a long association at Findlay Memorial Tabernacle . |
| 5 | Such a consideration raises the prospect of having to run a surplus budget at the same time as cutting taxes . |
| 6 | The client still operates from the same premises , having negotiated a new lease at the expiry of the old one . |
| 7 | The red-faced major had a good memory for faces and well recalled that when he was lecturing to the officers of the Scots Guards at Pirbright in 1939 , a certain young gentleman had persistently slept through his talks , having spent the previous nights at wild parties in London . |
| 8 | Nor do the majority of umpires when having found a satisfactory distance at which to stand . |
| 9 | Similarly , in shaping the format and means of communicating plans and performance down to managers , ‘ having run the retail operation at TSB I appreciate the needs of the front-end operation and the importance of giving people the information that really matters to them with the right commentary . |
| 10 | Confining himself to Scotland 's priorities , the national coach expressed relief at having gained an initial win at Malta 's expense and admiration for the manner of that achievement . |
| 11 | Having assisted an old woman at a zebra crossing , I was granted three wishes . |
| 12 | Wolfgang Hildesheimer ( 1985 , p.201 ) , in his ‘ warts-and-all ’ study of Mozart , suggests that music offers similar opportunities : ‘ Why else should we need music but for its ability to satisfy our longing for emotional experience , without our having to undergo the deep tumult at its root ’ . |
| 13 | He remembers competing at the national championships at Cleethorpes in 1923 , when the water lay only three foot deep above a foot of solid mud , and having to touch a mud-smeared wall at each end . |