Example sentences of "having been [vb pp] that [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He says he is now living in fear , having been told that an £80,000 contract has been taken out on his life . |
2 | Having been told that the Government have conceded that the whole thing is nonsense , I can not begin to understand why we are not getting rid of it now , taking the strain off last year 's poll tax , which is becoming intolerable . |
3 | Erm , having been told that the County Council were running the meeting , I did find it a little difficult to chair , but I do think that we 've come out of it with some constructive ideas . |
4 | Five years later , the plaintiff , having been informed that the painting was not a Constable , returned it to the defendants and asked for his money back . |
5 | Having been reminded that the bookies ' smoke signals usually signify a lot more than just grandiose waves of their Havana cigars , Ramsden then revealed that he himself might have been inadvertantly responsible for the Travelling Light rumour . |
6 | The trial judge refused , however , to set aside the charge , ‘ it not having been established that the bank or its officers exercised any undue influence over Mrs. Perry . ’ |