Example sentences of "having [verb] a [adj] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knows a little of the history of this region , having done a prize-winning project on it at school . |
| 2 | The last few months of her journal witness a severe crisis in her life when , having produced a scientific paper on lichen ( nowadays considered ahead of its time ) , her researches were dismissed in a high-handed and sexist way by the Director of Kew Gardens to whom she presented her work . |
| 3 | Given their view of the reports as generally descriptive , it is hardly surprising that few teachers felt that having to submit a written report on their school was in any measure a professional threat to them . |
| 4 | Simon Pepper of the WWF said : ‘ We have had to recognise that having spent a considerable time on this project and having devoted considerable resources by our organisations , it has not been possible to secure the overall package which we considered necessary for going ahead . |
| 5 | Police folklore tells of one officer who , having found a dead body on the street at the end of his duty , shifted it on to the next beat . |
| 6 | And Eliot is still the massive figure that must be circumvented if we are to see Virgil as having exerted a powerful influence on our modern poetry in ways more partial , devious and oblique than Eliot allowed for . |
| 7 | Having established a top camp on a col below the headwall , where Bonington stayed behind , the team began its summit bid at 3.30 am on 20 June . |
| 8 | My grown-up children are on their way to see me , and in order to do so are having to travel a two-hour journey on the motorway . |