Example sentences of "having [verb] a [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Merton 's early Edinburgh appearances read as a catalogue of disasters : one year he was set upon by a gang of burly Scottish lads when seeking to compete in the poster wars engulfing the festival , and another year he was rushed to hospital after only one show , having broken a leg in an intercomedian football friendly . |
| 2 | At the outbreak of World War I Kingsmill enlisted in a regiment of cyclists and in 1916 , having received a commission in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve , was sent to France where he was soon captured . |
| 3 | Having consulted a colleague in the USA , he has now found that they breed best in fresh water ) the hard water of his Lincolnshire home being ideal . ) |
| 4 | The same hand tapped Charlie on the shoulder a moment later , and off he ran , faster than he had ever run before , despite having to carry a rifle in one hand and a pack on his back . |
| 5 | The Central Bank lifted restrictions on currency withdrawals on Aug. 3 after having imposed a limit in February of KD4,000 ( US$13,500 ) on all withdrawals and foreign currency transfers . |
| 6 | Rather than having made a fortune in tips tonight , she had actually come up ten dollars short . |
| 7 | Then he holed from 20ft at the long second and six feet at the fifth and sixth to maintain his record of not having suffered a failure in Europe since the Cannes Open two years ago . |
| 8 | More important is the fact that Aragorn has the stone available to him , and that Sauron ( having seen a hobbit in the same stone ) thinks Aragorn also has the Ring : it is because Aragorn showed himself to Sauron in the palantir that Sauron neglects his guard . |
| 9 | In the future historians are likely to regard the post-1979 Conservative governments as also having produced a change in direction , one which reversed the direction of previous post-war administrations . |
| 10 | ( Jacqueline Cromarty is , incidentally , on maternity leave at the moment , having produced a daughter in January ! ) |
| 11 | Poor Mervyn , she knew that she ought to feel sorry for him , living with his disagreeable old mother — at least , this was how she appeared in Ianthe 's imagination — disappointed at not having got a job in one of the University libraries , unable to find staff accurate enough to appreciate the niceties of setting out a bibliographical entry correctly , with it seemed few friends of either sex , unable to eat restaurant food — really , the list seemed endless when one thought about it . |
| 12 | In the case of the poll tax , unpopularity has led to its withdrawal having induced a change in premiership . |
| 13 | However , the survey of 3,600 people found that afternoon drinking was still the exception with only 6% of recent drinkers ( those who have had an alcoholic drink in the previous week ) having had a drink in licensed premises between 4pm and 5pm during the previous week . |
| 14 | Henry McCullough , having had a grounding in Irish showbands in the early 60s , subsequently joined — can you believe ! — ‘ Eire Apparent ’ in 1964 and toured extensively with them . |
| 15 | Having become a Whip in the Asquith coalition , Bridgeman told Maxse in July 1916 : |
| 16 | Electing a President for the first time ( Mauritius having become a republic in March 1992 — see p. 38804 ) , the National Assembly on June 30 chose Cassam Uteem , hitherto Minister for Industry and Industrial Technology ; Uteem 's ministerial post went to Bashir Khodabux , also of the Mouvement militant mauricien ( MMM ) . |
| 17 | Everyone else finally dispersed on that Sunday , each having played a part in writing the Leeds Congress into the history book of the deaf of the United Kingdom . |
| 18 | I was still at the crease , but having pulled a muscle in my leg I was batting with a runner . |
| 19 | I was amused by J. Lipton 's letter in the November issue , in which he says that having driven a nail in the wood , if it splits , he knows he should have used a screw . |
| 20 | We do claim credit for having detected this anger and for having spent a year in working to set up a public meeting at which Thornaby people could express it , but even there we were careful to be non-party political and as a result of that meeting , with the support of Thornaby people and the town 's MP Tim Devlin , we are now carrying the campaign to the proper quarter . |
| 21 | Having spent a night in accommodation which is the same as the recruits ' and having had the opportunity to talk to some of the recruits in the Sandes Coffee Shop last night , they have an excellent idea about their future career . |
| 22 | Having found a food-source in the evening , they will fly straight back to it the following morning , still guiding themselves by the sun even though it is now in the east and not the west . |
| 23 | ‘ Cathal Crumley is a political activist of long-standing having served a sentence in the H-Blocks on the blanket protest . ’ |
| 24 | But if , having served a term in purgatory , if having had the chance to try his arguments on other philosophers , Hegel was not unrepentant , he might agree that there was perhaps something in the alternative view : that each of the factors affecting historical development does have its own authenticity ; that they act upon and react to one another ; that from time to time this or that factor will take on a greater or lesser importance ; that of course — with a nod in the direction of Marx — at least since the neolithic age and the development of agriculture the mode of production has been a major factor ; and that the actions of particular men , Marx among them , have in fact been formative , changing not merely the degree of development of a kind already prescribed by a programme of social evolution , but the kind of development itself . |
| 25 | Most governments , having projected a fall in supplies of around one-fifth for 1974 , rushed through emergency legislation to economize on the use of oil . |
| 26 | The presence of oxygen , not usually cited as the cause of a fire , is put forward as having caused a fire in a laboratory or a space satellite for the reason that oxygen is usually and by intention excluded from some apparatus or chamber . |
| 27 | The Advanced Courses Development Programme has so far involved two phases of pilot courses , each phase having represented a stage in the progression from the current Advanced Courses system to a system based on the principles in the Policy Paper . |
| 28 | Our experience of MCI Communications Corp 's MCI Mail service makes us feel that it has a quite impressively user friendly interface , whereas we find it difficult to believe that British Telecommunications Plc 's Dialcom — or good ol' Telecom Gold — is really quite as user-hostile as it appears , so having hit a snag in MCI and keyed ‘ help ’ at the prompt , and got a couple of screens of useful information ending with two phone numbers and a further option to key at the prompt , we wondered what Gold came up with if you keyed ‘ help ’ — here is the answer — Top-level directory not found or inaccessible . |
| 29 | Only of having leapt a lifetime in one night . ’ |
| 30 | Major , who before the election had been the subject of adverse newspaper comment for not having put a woman in his Cabinet , had felt compelled to make a move . |