Example sentences of "having [verb] [adj] [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I must admit at that time I had little sympathy for the victims , having heard gruesome evidence at court , but my feelings have now changed . |
| 2 | They face the prospect of having to accept unskilled jobs at lower wages or of retraining , in either event , they may have to move to another part of the country . |
| 3 | Within a month or so the French , having won important skirmishes at Jargeau and Patay , could turn towards achieving the next logical step of their success story , the coronation of the dauphin as king of France . |
| 4 | As for chairmen , they do not like having to print millions of copies of their annual reports or having to answer tedious questions at their AGMs from Disgusted of Worthing . |
| 5 | By having to concede free elections at the round-table talks on Thursday night , the Communists have , in effect , accepted they will in future be only one partner in a pluralist political system . |
| 6 | Well-planned and executed night attacks on machinery and factories took place over wide districts and a long time span by men who , having set governmental authority at defiance , disappeared back into the community by day . |
| 7 | Hesh Wiener of Technology News of America comments that IBM is having to price current drives at less than half of list , and will make a success of the new ones only if it lists them at or below current street prices . |
| 8 | I had chosen these subjects specifically because I knew nothing about any of the four disciplines and because , having studied foreign languages at A Level , it seemed natural to develop my linguistic skills . |