Example sentences of "[prep] having [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the tragic star was still critically ill on a life-support machine after having a second blood clot removed from his brain . |
| 2 | Shortly after having the second baby , I chose to be sterilised . |
| 3 | I hired my somewhat reluctant steed from the East Farm in Abbotsbury , a working stud farm with the good fortune of having a 17th century thatched cottage as its farmhouse . |
| 4 | Such is found to be the effectiveness of having a second person-in-role ( usually another teacher ) that Newcastle upon Tyne Drama Advisory Team have cultivated the idea of offering a ‘ character ’ to the local schools ( they call it ‘ Rent-a-role ’ , so that a class in a primary school , say , working on the topic of The Peasants ' Revolt can — with sufficient notice of course ! — ask one of the team to come into the school as Wat Tyler ) . |
| 5 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 6 | But Paul came home happy , his blue eyes brilliant as they had been when they first met ; full of his new employment , the prospect of having the second book read , the kindness of the Professor in going to visit Mr Lamprey himself . |
| 7 | So she schemed until she found a way of having the second thing without losing the first . |
| 8 | Defender also had the distinction of having the first woman finisher , Mandy Gallow . |
| 9 | It was like having a third person , an onlooker , in the room . |
| 10 | Clearly , psychics should talk about having a seventh sense rather than the sixth ! |
| 11 | As she was seeing things in the wake of her Paris win , she plans to compete for three or four more years before having a second child and giving up the tournament scene . |
| 12 | An hour later , standing in the darkness , so far from having the fourth murder in a series , they had a new killing : one which was superficially like the others , but whose only real resemblance lay in the infliction of one particular wound , and the manner and location in which the body was laid out after death . |
| 13 | Normally made of terracotta , to hold the ashes of the deceased , these urns were unusual in being of lead , with lids , and inside having a second container of glass , also lidded , and sealed with stucco . |
| 14 | Quorum , the other Mac-on-Unix pioneer , maintains that market research indicates that users are not interested in having a second platform on their machines which is what Apple is essentially proposing to do but would rather have their Mac apps available under Motif as Quorum 's products offer . |
| 15 | There is little point in having a first aid kit on the ground floor if you cut your foot badly upstairs . |
| 16 | For well over a century the design has been available whilst in 1909 the Science Museum , for example , acquired the example to be seen in the Computing Then and Now gallery , purchasing the cheaper of the two production models made by Messrs Newton and Co. and fully described in the firm 's literature Stratton 's brainchild differs from the Newton model only in having the second pendulum attached to the pen instead of hanging below the main pendulum under the table . |
| 17 | His disappointment at having a second wife barren was , to him , the only flaw in their marriage , and her deception would never be forgiven . |
| 18 | But as she made her way back to the table , Polly 's fierce satisfaction at having the last word in what had been a nerve-shattering encounter quickly faded . |
| 19 | Of course , you can achieve variations on this basic form , if only by having a second murder and getting a shape rather like a violin . |
| 20 | The 1992 Richmond Meet is being marked as a historic occasion by having the first female Meet president . |