Example sentences of "having [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was still pondering on his use of her name as the taxi drove through the dark city streets , the driver having given up on any hopes of conversation after a couple of monosyllabic and nonsensical replies from his customer . |
| 2 | Having come out of that side of politics rather than the other , I always start where people are , and with what they want , and what their lives are like , and what will help them . |
| 3 | Having sat in on many lessons , he produced a list of ten categories of interaction . |
| 4 | The sun , having messed around with all the colours that Keats and Shelly were so big on , decided at last to give the rosy-fingered routine a bit of a miss and go for the full Colditz searchlight . |
| 5 | On Oct. 23 a case filed in Lahore charged Bhutto with having made up to 10,000 illegal government appointments during her 20 months in office . |
| 6 | Pupils boast of having watched up to eight videos in a day . |
| 7 | The company was less a victim of the recession than of the peace dividend , having geared up for military orders which failed to materialise . |
| 8 | Persuading them to adhere to the doctrine of the Church of England , to persevere in that good old way ; … for having set up for Primitive Christianity , he counted Popery as well as Puritanism arrant novelty . |
| 9 | Having set off in great style from Salzburg in their own carriage , they were now so impecunious that they were obliged to sell it before the frontier and go on by postchaise . |
| 10 | How could I not be when I thought of Mum Lying there in that bed day after day , completely wrecked by Dad having run off with another woman ? |
| 11 | Well , thanks for having put up with this thing . |
| 12 | The scales are certainly atomic , so we are entitled to regard these charges at the surfaces as having spread out in two dimensions only . |
| 13 | World No 8 Wilkinsonfrom Kirkby-in-Ashfield , went down 9-7 to stablemate Martin Clark , having fought back from 8-4 . |
| 14 | having failed out on two poly courses . |
| 15 | The union was also left virtually bankrupt , having paid out in five weeks ' strike pay nearly two years ' worth of subscriptions . |