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 .
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