Example sentences of "[adj] having a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | what what the insurance salesman do is do wobble you a little bit so that you will take it out , you know , can you afford down , if you were forty having a heart attack leaving a wife and young child behind . |
| 2 | It 's different having a child of your own to bringing up your brothers . |
| 3 | Shears Essential for trimming hedges and edges of lawns , shears come in a variety of weights and sizes , some having a notch near the handles for cutting tough stems . |
| 4 | And I 'm embarrassed having a bodyguard . ’ |
| 5 | These two essences are very versatile having a myriad of therapeutic properties . |
| 6 | Liquid systems are straightforward having a feed pipe from the product container direct to the non-priming delivery pump . |
| 7 | Eight ( 20% ) of the 40 patients underwent surgery , six having a cholecystectomy and exploration of the common bile duct and two a cholecystectomy alone ( the endoprosthesis being left in situ ) . |
| 8 | It was quite pointless having a runner who saw the whole thing as a social outing and had once even sat down in a kitchen and said she 'd just rest for a minute . |
| 9 | However I would n't be happy about either having a boyfriend to stay overnight in the house quite yet . |
| 10 | It is all very well having a goal , but goals are long-term and not always achievable ; only objectives are truly achievable . |
| 11 | It 's the same with Prince — it 's great having a bit of rumpy pumpy on the TV with a few cheeky videos and lots of naughty bits , but it 's becoming a little standard . |
| 12 | That must be great having a baby sitter on tap |
| 13 | Erm , it 's great having a neighbourhood area where all the traffic goes slowly , but there are certain radial roads in where the traffic should move I think at some speed . |
| 14 | But for many having a racehorse belongs to the world of rolls royces and luxury yachts … |
| 15 | It would be no good having a receptionist blacking out every time they jacked in . |
| 16 | From the passenger 's viewpoint the first things that are different are the plug-type sliding doors , improved welcoming entrance vestibules and a seating layout with some facing pairs of seats in the standard class at tables for four , with others in twos having a face-to-back arrangement . |
| 17 | I think we 're all having a shock with those extra |
| 18 | And Galashiels being placed where it was on the between four counties , th you had Berwickshire , Peebleshire , Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire all having a part . |
| 19 | My mother I remember there was a sale of work going on at Palfrey church once and bef I had just been made apprentice at Wolverhampton and of course I got amongst the , they , when they came the , the Derby day they were all having a bet on it so I , I said to the give them half a crown , so he said you ca n't have half a crown and he said what do you want it for so I said they 're putting it on a horse was on this horse it won , so of course this sale of work was in great progress when I gets off the train at station and thought well I could n't understand in er Palfrey Church Hall , so she was there in all her finery and I said we 've won , we 've won she said shut up , shut up she said but erm no I think the biggest character in Caldmore was Father . |
| 20 | It 'd be really awkward having a name like that if it had a short neck . ’ |
| 21 | It is also crucial that vulnerable young girls understand clearly that having a child at sixteen does not usually result in getting a passport to new-found freedom . |
| 22 | I read that having a plec in the tank would not help , so I removed him . |
| 23 | Folasade felt she had changed in that having a baby had given her more confidence and put her on a more equal footing with her mother . |
| 24 | In a similar manner , the context of dog in 22 and 23 acts like a trigger which activates one of a set of pre-existing bundles of semantic properties , each having a precision and richness not directly sanctioned by the context . |
| 25 | The kitchen had one small window , the parlour two , one looking out over Brodick Bay , the other inland ; joined to this main building were various outhouses , each having a door , a window , a box-bed , a small deal table , a candlestick , and a wash-basin of its own : these were let for the most part to single gentlemen , though now and again she had also lady lodgers . |
| 26 | Most written languages have an alphabet , and in English everyone is familiar with the 26 letters from which many thousands of words can be constructed , each having a dictionary definition to help the process of communicating . |
| 27 | Had Conner beaten Kanza on Wednesday , the defence semi-final would have been halted , with Conner and Koch each having a place in the final . |
| 28 | If we add an edge from I to J , we will create a cycle ( a sequence of distinct edges , each having a node in common with its predecessor , and each node appearing in exactly two edges ) by adding the edge I to J to the edges of the path from J to 1 . |
| 29 | On the other side of the court entrance were three narrow two storey houses , each having a frontage of no more than eight feet . |
| 30 | It 's awful having a set of bells there which are almost in working order but ca n't be used . |