Example sentences of "having [verb] a [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 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | The southern States stand out very strongly as having experienced a Democratic hegemony then , as they did for the entire century beforehand . |
5 | 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 . |