Example sentences of "[prep] having [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three months after having surgery on a brain tumour , Julia Somerville is welcomed back to ITN with a kiss from fellow newsreader Trevor McDonald . |
| 2 | Mrs Mellor was chauffeur driven to the Rock and taken back by car after having lunch with the boat party . |
| 3 | A MAN was up in court this week on a charge of indecency after having sex with a pig . |
| 4 | THE story of the twins who died in a barn fire after having sex with the men they were with is a tragic one . |
| 5 | He said she was known to be wanton and had become pregnant after having sex with numerous teenage boys . |
| 6 | Kissed after having sex . |
| 7 | All seemed to be in order , but next morning , after having trouble with one of the receivers , he went up again to make sure he had not inadvertently disturbed anything . |
| 8 | The Home Secretary is in my opinion entitled and bound to reach his own tariff decision , after having regard both to the judges ' tariff and to the factors such as public confidence in the administration of justice which Lord Scarman mentioned . |
| 9 | Dutch champions PSV were denied victory in a tough 2–2 Group B draw at Porto after having defender Adrie van Tiggelen sent off . |
| 10 | Defender Neil Ruddock is also expected to play after having wisdom teeth removed in an operation this week . |
| 11 | Defender Neil Ruddock is also expected to play after having wisdom teeth removed in an operation this week . |
| 12 | We hauled our weary bodies into the kitchen and make token gestures towards having breakfast . |
| 13 | The fact that the Erne outfit could only draw with Armagh on Sunday last despite having home advantage does not lessen McCabe 's optimism as he anticipates this week-end 's replay at the Athletic Grounds . |
| 14 | It is a measure of the seriousness with which the European issue divides the Conservative Party that the Prime Minister came within three votes of defeat over Maastricht — despite having Lib Dem support — in the paving vote last November . |
| 15 | For the most part , parents mistakenly thought their children were not legally entitled to vote , despite having voting cards , or they judged that their children would not understand what it was all about . |
| 16 | Cloughie , probably now less adaptable to sudden change than he used to be , has been hamstrung by the departure of two high class central defenders , whom he has been unable to replace despite having cash in the bank . |
| 17 | It was still possible to pay for private treatment in the health service , but for most people it was a case of having treatment " on the national health . " |
| 18 | Factors at work that cause stress include the physical demands of some jobs , such as poor working conditions , dangerous elements to the work , shift work and travel demands , as well as work overload , both in terms of having too much work to do , resulting in long hours , and of having work that is too difficult for the individual , causing anxiety . |
| 19 | Even if the Government and Opposition spokesmen are wedded to the idea of having King 's Cross as an interchange for the channel tunnel , they do not have to use the scheme proposed in the Bill . |
| 20 | rational — based on expectations of having choice in and control over career prospects and progress . |
| 21 | Similarly , the family metaphor celebrates the idea of having cooperation among the members of the enterprise and ensuring that any conflict will be directed towards the outside world . |
| 22 | This is the basis of your life ; there is no such thing as teaching in the sense of having knowledge injected into you . |
| 23 | Counselling was a completely new world to me and although in the past it had been suggested that to combat my periods of depression I might well think of having psychoanalysis , I am now glad I resisted . |
| 24 | As for the ideas of having reference to and being directed up oil , they too must be given sense consonant with the nature of the given contents and objects and the various modes of consciousness . |
| 25 | Although the numbers have fallen in the last decade , a high proportion of the world 's children do not even have the opportunity of having protection from some of the major childhood killers , diseases for which vaccines are available — measles for example is a major cause of childhood mortality . |
| 26 | They say the thought of having coach loads of inquistive tourists driving through the hamlet would turn their Paradise into a living Hell . |
| 27 | Ever since 1969 , when he had his first show , his cartoonish black-and-white paintings have managed to comment without mercy or a smidgen of socially redeeming tact on , among other things , men 's — and women 's — looks ( Warhol 's nosejob painting must be an important icon in his private gallery ) ; issues of health ( a hilarious series of men in the throes of having heart attacks ) ; bestiality ( pert Fifties housewife on her knees doing something unspeakable to a poodle with her arm ) and religion ( famous Biblical figure on the cross getting a pie in the face ) . |
| 28 | It also means that your chances of having heart disease are less . |
| 29 | ‘ And I am put in this ward under observation because I am suspected of having heart murmurs and also I am having surgery on my face . |
| 30 | Everybody , now you 've also got to accept the high percentage of having nay got a clue , eh what they 're doing , even after a week or a couple of weeks and it should n't er be here , but if you get somebody , nice er Michelle or Cathy , eh , or eh Adel |