Example sentences of "for having [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are the more detestable for having temporarily lost their reason for existence : that is to say , shops full of a disastrous religious trinketry no longer have any customers to sell it to , and whole street-fuls of hotels and pensions are all of them closed until the following spring , making parts of the town seem gloomily abandoned . |
| 2 | Her skin was honey-coloured and , except for having probably retraced her mouth and eyebrows , she wore very little make-up for the time . |
| 3 | Because it means you can always criticize the individual , for either not having done the job well enough or for having not done it quite the way you thought it ought to be done . |
| 4 | They both express the same , slightly ironic , delight in the munificence of old houses : Cobbett , when walking through the Duke of Buckingham 's park , remarks in a manner that anticipates Harold Skimpole 's : ‘ I , like POPE 'S cock in the farm-yard , could not help thanking the DUKE and DUCHESS for having generously made such ample provision for our pleasure . |
| 5 | In fact they exchanged hints for Orwell 's own essay on Wodehouse ( 1945 ) ; and years after Orwell 's death , Waugh was to praise him in a broadcast for having generously helped to save Wodehouse from the undeserved public disgrace of prosecution as a war-time Nazi collaborator . |
| 6 | A veteran New York dealer with a reputation for having always sensed the latest in art movements is making an offer to the Vatican . |
| 7 | Mayor Kropacek said : ‘ We must thank the Thun-Hohenstein family for having looked after and honoured the picture of the Annunciation for nearly half a century and for having now returned it , newly restored , to the church of the Holy Cross . |
| 8 | The Great St George team of the 1950s and 1960s , the team that produced Gasnier and the great lock Johnny Raper ( famous for having once walked through the streets of Ilkley wearing nothing but a bowler hat and a tie ) , was the team that introduced scientific cover defence . |
| 9 | He was critical of Clive Thornton for having once claimed that a house was the best investment , since prices rise and never fall ; they may reach a plateau , but will then rise again . |
| 10 | It was reported on Jan. 8 that former federal judge Frederick B. Lacy , the court-appointed independent administrator assigned to clean up the notoriously corrupt Teamsters union ( International Brotherhood of Teamsters , Chauffeurs , Warehousemen and Helpers of America ) , had banned one of the union 's vice-presidents , T. R. " Teddy " Cozza , for having knowingly associated with figures involved in organized crime . |