Example sentences of "for having [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I also want to thank you very deeply from the innermost parts of my heart , for having given an opportunity for some of us to work in Britain to have accepted us and worked with us to build the solidarity movement that brought the apartheid regime to its knees . |
| 2 | She was to be ritually speared for having broken a taboo . |
| 3 | v. Chilton , the Court of Appeal held that a threat by A , a trading association , to put B , one of its members , on a ‘ stop list ’ ( which would prevent B from getting goods from the members of the association ) unless B paid a sum of money for having broken a rule of the association was not a tort . |
| 4 | I was dismayed that we had disturbed her and apologised for having made a noise . |
| 5 | To drive the archbishop into exile for having recognized a pope accepted by all Normandy would have been an act of political folly . |
| 6 | The Contemporary Arts Centre of Cincinnati was acquitted of obscenity on Oct. 5 for having displayed an exhibition of photographs by the late Robert Mapplethorpe . |
| 7 | Kim responded by expressing his desire to improve relations with Japan and by suggesting that a " lenient decision " would be made in the case of two Japanese fishermen detained in North Korea since 1983 for having helped a North Korean defect to Japan . |
| 8 | It reflects moral regret for having violated a situation of trust , and it shows concern that someone might have been hurt . ’ |
| 9 | At Pontefract yesterday Isobel Brown , who said her last permanent address was Moscow , was committed for three months in the second division for having delivered a speech at Castleford on Wednesday likely to cause disaffection . |
| 10 | She also felt very angry with him for having taken an overdose . |
| 11 | He 's inside for having slit a man 's throat . |
| 12 | Guiding in a main force became the second phase of assault pilotage , for having reconnoitred a beach some weeks or months before a landing , these teams had the most up-to-date knowledge of local conditions . |
| 13 | I do n't see that in any combination of these Amendments , I very much hope that my Noble Friend will come back at the report stage with our grateful thanks for having found a process which will produce a body of co of o of appointed members on the police authorities of a position to influence but not to determine his policy and that should be an a position , I agree with my Noble Friend , Lord Motterstone subordinate to that of the magistrates . |
| 14 | 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 . |