Example sentences of "[pron] having [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Micky and the two girls were looking for a fourth person — someone having just moved out and on . |
| 2 | Imagination from other viewpoints depends on my having already perceived something analogous from the then present and my own , and is undernourished if I was distracted at the time by consideration of the future or of others . |
| 3 | The following day , Monday , we would all drive into Adrar , I having already walked that section . |
| 4 | ‘ Silas himself having no say in the matter ? |
| 5 | The Countryside Commission were to sign a deal with the Duke of Devonshire in September to grant him Capital Transfer Tax exemption ( estimated to be worth £12,000,000 ) in turn for large parts of this 130km 2 in the Dales becoming a public heritage centre under the Heritage Estate arrangement introduced by Leeds MP Denis Healey in 1975 to prevent the breakup of large estates ( the MP himself having just become President of the National Trust 's Yorkshire Moors & Dales Appeal ) . |
| 6 | as if I had n't got enough on my plate with Tim throwing a mid-life crisis and Phil doing the disturbed adolescent bit-now if you please Suzanne comes in at three-thirty in the morning , and me lying there sick with worry , she having never thought to phone , and London with rapists on every street corner or so one 's told . |
| 7 | But er , that 's a great advantage when compared with the newly appointed British Ambassador in Washington , who having just arrived in Washington , er picked up the telephone and heard a voice at the other end , say , what do you want for Christmas , it was just before Christmas , what do you want for Christmas , and he thought hastily and , did n't want to be impolite or too greedy , so he said a small box of crystallised fruit , and put the telephone down , and a few momen a few moments later he put on the radio , and the announcer said , we 've just conducted our normal review of the Ambassadors ' wishes for Christmas , er , the the Ambassadors in Washington . |
| 8 | And the thing about it is such as erm well not only Tanys Dell that biggest part of school is here the population has decreased so much in the last ten years that we having now to close schools |
| 9 | His hatred for those who crossed him having once shared the bonds of mutual loyalty was unbounded , but equally he never forgot old services performed , and , apart from the ‘ Night of the Long Knives ’ in June 1934 , he did not resort to purges within the Party . |
| 10 | But dreams I could n't possibly have had without his having really done those things . |
| 11 | Yeah I I usually find myself having just deposited Spike at the station at about a quarter past nine and then I 'm in town and er able to do things in town . |