Example sentences of "[coord] having [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone might say : surely he can imagine recognising ( or having not recognised ) the person . |
| 2 | Pupils were significantly less likely to have participated in the follow up studies if at baseline they had reported being smokers or having previously smoked or tried cigarettes , if their father or mother was a smoker , or if their father was unemployed or a manual worker . |
| 3 | The artists in the show were a young and academic group , many completing or having recently gained postgraduate qualifications . |
| 4 | It has in the past been notorious that a pupil in an English school , having learned French for seven years , and having even passed at grade A at A level , may yet be unable to utter more than a few halting sentences , and be hardly able to follow a simple conversation with a native speaker . |
| 5 | There was already a cat flap in the back door , and having thoroughly inspected the house Deano and Pandy disappeared to explore outside . |
| 6 | This is particularly the case with general principles such as making desirable behaviour worthwhile , setting limits and having clearly defined but fair rules of conduct . |
| 7 | He took out his first two engine patents in 1886 , and having progressively improved the design to give more complete combustion and avoid pre-ignition , in 1890 he was granted two patents for a hot-bulb oil engine , two years before Rudolf Diesel 's first English patent for his compression-ignition oil engine . |
| 8 | The author is particularly well-equipped to produce this book , being curator of the great Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence , and having already written several fundamental recent studies of the subject . |
| 9 | In between work on these sessions — and having just failed to squeeze in the Charlatans and Bob Geldof — he 's been releasing his own dance records under an assumed name and running his own record label , Foundation , for two years . |
| 10 | That 's the compound radius fingerboard for you , and having just come straight from playing a ‘ 62 reissue Strat , the Manson 's fingerboard around and above the octave felt virtually flat in comparison . |
| 11 | And having just fought for NCR , Mr Allen is unlikely to propose such a break-up . |
| 12 | The Chancellor yesterday very kindly did not put V A T on books and periodicals but had he done so that would have the effect of taking more than one hundred thousand pounds out of our accounts in the current year without us being able to do anything about it and it does seem to me that we should be considering asking the members in general meeting to pass to the Council of the Association the right to set and increase subscriptions and having properly advised the members thereof to fix the effective date of such increases , otherwise we are very badly placed to respond to short-term problems . |
| 13 | Faced with such demand and having only limited powers and minimal resources the service was quickly forced on the defensive , making invidious distinctions between those who were amenable to ( deserving of ) help and those who were not . |
| 14 | Having drank in that pub for eight years and having never caused any trouble in that time , I am disgusted by the fact that there is a general ban on customers with a pierced nose . |
| 15 | That afternoon ( it was all on a Sunday ) he saw Chamberlain , and having directly asked him whether he agreed with the others and having received an affirmative answer , told him to call a meeting of the Shadow Cabinet for the following day at which he would say goodbye . |
| 16 | " Last year our friends and allies provided the bulk of the economic costs of Desert Shield , and having now received commitments of over $40,000 million for the first three months of 1991 , I am confident that they will do no less as we move through Desert Storm . |
| 17 | It was happening in the summer and autumn of that year , and having now established who he was , people in the movie business were asking if this was going to be his big break , while out there in the communes and on the streets , the rebels were electing him and Hopper , and , to a lesser degree , Fonda , their champions . |
| 18 | Depression audiences were given a hero who first fights in the World War and then finds it difficult to settle back into a factory job ; this innocent man is then twice sentenced to a chain-gang , the second arrest coming after a period during which he had succeeded as a respectable businessman ; the film ends with him still on the run and having now to depend on crime to keep himself alive . |
| 19 | I needed a ventouse extraction with my first child — with the epidural and having now delivered without an epidural — I understand why . |
| 20 | I see a set of conclusions that achieve almost everything that was demanded at that time and I am grateful to everybody concerned who 's actually sat down and actually really thought about what we 're trying to do and everybody has made some compromise here and I shall certainly support this amendment and I shall make the compromise because the one thing in here that I thought was necessary that is n't there is the statement that there will be a head of centre and having actually worked in a project , head of sorry , head of project and having actually worked in a situation where I was a joint manager erm in the long run I think people will see the the wisdom of of a single head of project . |
| 21 | I see a set of conclusions that achieve almost everything that was demanded at that time and I am grateful to everybody concerned who 's actually sat down and actually really thought about what we 're trying to do and everybody has made some compromise here and I shall certainly support this amendment and I shall make the compromise because the one thing in here that I thought was necessary that is n't there is the statement that there will be a head of centre and having actually worked in a project , head of sorry , head of project and having actually worked in a situation where I was a joint manager erm in the long run I think people will see the the wisdom of of a single head of project . |
| 22 | Deborah James had run her own business , a shirtmaker 's called Deborah and Clare in Beauchamp Place , and having recently experienced her own troubles with accountants , was extremely sympathetic to Laura 's attitudes . |
| 23 | Susceptible to malaria , and having recently had open-heart surgery , Vanne can no longer go out to Africa ; but when Jane visits the UK she stays with her mother in Bournemouth . |
| 24 | Our materials were used , were not liked , and were soon discarded , and having once relinquished the courses we had developed , and involved our time and our energies elsewhere , we could not return to our earlier situation . |
| 25 | Like one that on a lonesome road doth walk in fear and dread , Tasha sang on her Ancient Mariner Mambo album , and having once turned round walks on , and turns no more his head ; because he knows a frightful fiend doth close behind him tread . |
| 26 | She was still trying to cope with what she was beginning to realise was her over-reaction , though she could n't have said quite why she should feel so alarmed , when he told her coolly , ‘ You misunderstand me , Miss Everett , ’ and was on his feet too as , looking arrogantly down at her , he stated bluntly , ‘ Should I ever be so lucky as you suggest , then , be sure of it , I 'd throw away my rabbit 's foot , ’ and having forthrightly left her under no illusion but that should he ever get saddled with her then he would consider his luck had run out , he went on toughly , ‘ I already know the answer , but , for the record , I want to hear it from you — are you just playing around with Travis for the pure hell of it — or , ’ his voice had taken on a grim edge , ‘ are you in love with him ? ’ |
| 27 | Thirty-one had been discharged by 1983 but with six of these patients having been transferred to a general hospital for physical illness and having subsequently died . |
| 28 | Their last , eponymously-titled record pointed the way , but having since roped in REM 's Peter Buck to handle production chores , this Minneapolis five-piece are a far more consistent proposition — albeit one still inclined to take five and freak out . |
| 29 | Their last , eponymously-titled record pointed the way , but having since roped in REM 's Peter Buck to handle production chores , this Minneapolis five-piece are a far more consistent proposition — albeit one still inclined to take five and freak out . |
| 30 | But having politely listened to Mrs Thatcher 's remarks and having promised to pay due attention to Whitehall 's alternative strategy , the summit made it clear that their strategy for monetary union would broadly follow the blueprint laid down . |