Example sentences of "having [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Having registered at the reception desk they went to their room and found a notice which purported to exempt the hotel for liability for the loss or theft of property from the rooms .
2 So having looked at the relationship between business and the voluntary sector today , let's take a brief look at the future .
3 Well I do n't think that one will fit in your bedroom in any case , having looked at the size of the wardrobes and the site of the gap that you 've got .
4 Having looked at the equipment and principles involved in setting up the tank , we now approach the art ( and science ) of aquarium decor .
5 Having looked at the evidence we concluded that wherever public power has been separated from private power , women have been excluded from it .
6 Having looked at the development and decline of settlements , let us now look at why the settlements are where they are and the patterns they make in the landscape .
7 Having looked at the studio from the outside he was prepared for squalor , but a basic orderliness surprised him .
8 Having looked at the draft Memorandum to the Presidency I can only say it seems to cover most of the key points .
9 If , having looked at the display , the performance of the system is not satisfactory , the display will suggest how it can be improved .
10 The Cabinet broke up without reaching a final decision , only to be warned by John Major that it risks having to meet at the weekend .
11 a game played by holding in the closed hand one or two items , the other player having to guess at the number .
12 One of the delights of being on holiday is not having to look at the clock .
13 Two uniforms were trying to put an extendable ladder up to the skylight — God knows where it had come from — over the bath without actually having to look at the body .
14 I am no longer the chairman of ICI , having retired at the beginning of April 1987 .
15 The van having arrived at the weighbridge , she got out , but was instructed to get back in as she was ‘ part of the load ’ .
16 He continued : ‘ Having arrived at the party we do n't want to be seen to be griping .
17 The other proviso of course , is our commitment to ninety , nineteen ninety four , and nineteen ninety five , not having arrived at the end of the financial year yet , we 're still in the position of having to forecast what those commitments will be .
18 And most frustrating of all would be having to witness at the conclusion of each such anecdote otherwise decent employees shaking their heads in wonder and uttering phrases like : ‘ That Mr Neighbours , he really is the best . ’
19 That suggests they are staying with friends or acquaintances Svend has in the city , and that is the premise I 'm having investigated at the moment . ’
20 As beautiful as Crotone 's Helen ! ’ the old men nodded in the summers , when his youngest sister would pass by the terrace of the circolo , the club , on her way to fetch something Nunzia was having cooked at the baker 's oven .
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