Example sentences of "having have [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Having had a gruesome storm-tossed journey , his first act on landing was to fulfil his vow to travel barefoot to the nearest shrine in thanksgiving for his delivery ; the rheumatism which resulted was with him for the rest of his life — as was the sourness with which he regarded Scotland .
2 My introduction to the matter came early one morning at about 6 a.m. when — having had a late night — I was awakened by a telephone call from Wigg .
3 No rectal stool mass was felt in 36% of children , 13% being already started on laxatives and others having had a recent bowel movement .
4 Rather than creative individuals being taken as the starting-point , the individuals targeted initially were people who had been diagnosed as having had a mental illness , either a severe ( manic-depressive ) form of affective disorder or the milder , but aetiologically related , mood swings of ‘ cyclothymia ’ .
5 The Prince , of course , had to go and say hello , and disappeared once again , emerging ten minutes later having had a long discussion with the chief brass player .
6 She came to Queen 's Park about 11 years ago , having had a long association at Findlay Memorial Tabernacle .
7 Oh I 'm just sitting here having had a long , well erm I I 've just had a , a chat with Gillian who erm rang me up and we were on the phone for about half an hour I suppose , she 's some lucky girl !
8 Having had a small suitcase packed weeks ago , she alerted the maternity wing of the clinic in which she was booked , asked the receptionist downstairs to get her a taxi and took herself off there as if the early arrival of babies was an everyday occurrence in her life .
9 He also pointed out in the report that the excavation produced a disproportionate number of cosmetic articles , although the significance of this evidence is not clear ; the case for the site having had a religious function is strengthened by a consideration of the other buildings .
10 With puffins still zooming around the landing bay , we left for the mainland having had a marvellous day .
11 The brick and stone-built cone is sixty feet high , and was saved from demolition in 1962 by excavations which showed its importance as an industrial monument , this area of Yorkshire once having had a thriving glass industry .
12 Medical Services are steaming ahead having had a great year .
13 In recovering from our torture we take solace from the knowledge that we share with H G Wells , Oscar Wilde , William Butler Yeats , W Somerset Maugham , James Joyce , and many other writers the experience of having had a rotten rejection .
14 Of course , there have been historical fluctuations in revolutionary activity , as well as considerable variations between societies — with revolutionary parties having had a greater influence in France and Italy than in the rest of Western and Northern Europe or in North America — but the predominant style of working-class politics everywhere has been reformist , directed toward a gradual attrition of the unregulated market economy .
15 That will no doubt be done by the press , clearly bored at not having had a good scandal to get its teeth into for all of two months .
16 And despite having had a good , healthy pregnancy , she had already started getting depressed :
17 Having had a jinxed left back position it looks like we now have a jinxed central defender position !
18 Now he freely admits to being gay and to having had a stable , loving relationship with another man .
19 Boasting a record of never having had a serious incident or accident in its history , Aurigny is careful about the selection of its pilots , most of whom are mature and experienced aircrew with backgrounds in airline and/or military flying .
20 All reported having had a wonderful day and causing much comment and amusement wherever they went .
21 The probe problem is having had a big initial launch the reality is that we 're now going to drip feed the P R throughout the year and there are several good stories coming up which I 'm not gon na tell you er that we hope the , the national and local press will pick up on .
22 Le Corbusier , with Gropius and Lubetkin , have been described as having had a poetic vision of a future society , organised along egalitarian and emancipatory lines , supported by modern technology .
23 ‘ Do you realise , Frances … ’ he said slowly , ‘ I did that performance tonight without having had a single drink all day … ?
24 He had read some of the more discreet passages for the evening audience , having had a last-minute change of plan .
25 For example , in 1851 just after the railway came , Macclesfield was larger than Coventry , Halifax or York , having had a 160 per cent increase in population in the previous forty years .
26 Ian and Barbara meet — the latter having had a difficult time avoiding Nero 's amorous advances — and with the help of Tavius ( who is a Christian ) , they manage to escape from the city .
27 Ryan was just putting the final touches of white emulsion to Tosh 's paws when his father came back , having had a quick break from painting the two-year-old 's room .
28 Lord Palmerston was a notorious rake , having had a long-standing affair with Lady Cowper , whom he finally married in the late 1830s .
29 In other words , having had a previous similar sensation is a logically necessary condition of my apprehending a sensation of white as such , on Mill 's version of the resemblance doctrine .
30 ‘ He is still vertical , ’ Roxburgh observed after having had a significant portion of his squad put on horizontal hold .
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