Example sentences of "having [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With special affection I remember the metro railway enthusiasts who , confronted by rigorous structuralist films or scenes of sexual and scatalogical excess , walked out of the cinema in baffled confusion during the first NFT International Underground Film Festival and indignantly demanded their money back after having booked for a whole season of what seemed like fascinating specialist delights : German Underground , American Underground , Italian Underground . |
| 2 | BOOK NOW Gary Moore Versatile former Thin Lizzy guitarist who , having dabbled in an impressive variety of styles , including heavy metal , jazz rock and folk , finally woke up one morning and decided that he was a blues guitarist . |
| 3 | Reports of his side having struggled to a disappointing home draw with lowly Airdrie will not have been his sole concern as he takes stock of his Scottish investment . |
| 4 | One particular day , having struggled through an ugly crowd of protesters to the safety of the Welsh Office , the Prince announced he was going back out to talk to them . |
| 5 | Having began as a wild idea with a group of mates in a St Agnes pub , provoked by anger , frustration and too many evenings of getting home ill from the beach ; the SAS ' influence is now spreading well beyond Cornwall and the surfing community . |
| 6 | Our early encounters with power may have deterred us from ever wanting to use it in a similar way ; having suffered from a cold , distant father or a smothering mother , and inevitably having attributed power to these parents , we may well decide that power is a negative force and not for us . |
| 7 | Awareness of having moved into a fresh and wider environment brought some interesting comments on our attitudes , reactions and problems as undergraduates . |
| 8 | Having decided upon a prefabricated pool , the next stage is to get it into the ground . |
| 9 | A new king was about to be crowned in England , the previous one having decamped with an American divorcée . |
| 10 | Having acted in a Conservative manner , especially at election times , one starts to take oneself for a Conservative ( i.e. Bem , 1967 ) . |
| 11 | We should only consider such cases where there is clear evidence of extreme weather and abnormal falls of snow having occurred over a short period of time . |
| 12 | Johnson went to the lavatory — at least , that is presumably what Boswell means when he says , ‘ having retired for a short time ’ — ; and Boswell and Monboddo engaged cordially with each other . |
| 13 | And of course there was no question of her having escaped from a mental hospital or of ever having been in one . |
| 14 | Of late years the Westminster scholars amused themselves with tearing it to pieces ; and one in particular , who bore a principal character in the police of India , lies under the imputation of having contributed in an especial manner to that havoc . |
| 15 | Having raced into a 14-point interval lead , thanks to two tries from Tony Swift , another from Richard Lee and a Jonathan Callard conversion , they nearly allowed themselves to be knocked out of their stride by Neath 's bludgeoning approach . |
| 16 | Having packed off a double convoy of cruise launchers ( still at large ) the base is playing at being under nuclear attack . |
| 17 | West Yorkshire , having presided over a massive expansion of rail traffic in recent years , is pushing for more electrification in the wake of the successful completion of InterCity 's electrification to Leeds . |
| 18 | If Mr Major , having presided over an economic recovery , should also win the next election , the Tories would come within striking distance of Sir Robert Walpole 's record of 21 unbroken years in office , set between 1721 and 1742 . |
| 19 | Still , having slipped into a B-film cop part , he found it difficult to slough off the role . |
| 20 | Stanger also quite magnificently clawed down Proctor after he had been uncorked in his own 22 by the largely negative Neil Jenkins ( who had two goal-kicking failures ) , Rayer and Ricky Evans having capitalised on a Scottish attack short-circuiting . |
| 21 | Having arrived at a suitable total for local authority expenditure , the next problem is how to express it in a way that allows comparisons to be made either with other contemporary expenditures or with local authority expenditure over time . |
| 22 | As far as identity is concerned , this does not involve looking primarily for some smug sense of having arrived at a particular social position . |
| 23 | We can not , therefore , feel surprised that Professor Coleman , beset by so many obstacles in that particular branch of our art , and having arrived at an advanced period of life , could not fling himself into its pursuit ; nor was it reasonable to expect it from him ’ . |
| 24 | He was a member of a well-known Jewish banking family in Frankfurt , and had the unique distinction of having served in the trenches in the Kaiser 's uniform in the First World War and then , having sought shelter here from the Nazi persecutions of the 1930s , having served as a British officer in King George 's uniform in the Second . |
| 25 | The autonomy of the Kurdish zone was to be strengthened , in an area expanded to include Kirkuk ; there were to be new and free elections to Kurdish councils ; the Kurds , having asked for a fair share of oil revenue , would be allotted 25–30% of the total Iraqi budget . |
| 26 | Having trained as a photo-process engraver , he took up the post of demonstrator in a firm in Gothenburg , Sweden , in 1907 . |
| 27 | Although having trained as a general physiotherapist he has always wanted to specialise in sports injuries . |
| 28 | Education is now better resourced , with spending on each schoolchild having increased by a massive 42 per cent in the last 12 years . |
| 29 | In 1958 , a year after the Homicide Act , for example , a man was hanged for capital murder having quarrelled with an elderly lady about the amount of wages he was to receive for working in her garden . |
| 30 | In Three Men in a Boat he tells how , having gone through a medical dictionary at the British Museum — to check if he had hayfever — he decided he had everything in the book except housemaids knee . |