Example sentences of "[pron] having do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such is the case , for instance , in ( 69 ) below , where the phrase the notion that suggests surprise at someone having done such a thing as was done , thereby implying that the speaker would not have thought such audacity possible if the occurrence of the event referred to had not come to his knowledge : ( 69 ) … one of those heroes , the air ace Billy Bishop , was recently the focus of a bitter wrangle between the National Film Board and the Senate . |
| 2 | Could it be that your success may remove much of the justification for their having done nothing , often for many years ? |
| 3 | These were brilliant fun and very relaxing , as the water carried you around the small island , without you having to do anything . |
| 4 | And it saved you hav it saved you having to do the preliminary thing of saying dear whoever you are |
| 5 | And you having to do a talk |
| 6 | Oh dear , I do feel sorry for you having to do all that |
| 7 | People were more sedentary then , and he had the field to himself , no one having done it before . |
| 8 | I thought it might all be going to go away without me having to do anything . |
| 9 | it saves me having to do three weekends , I can do two weekends next term instead of three |
| 10 | There was a duty of mutual trust between his victims and him , the victims being elderly and he having done work for them over some years . |
| 11 | The Lotus , now quite a rare model , came into Gordon 's possession in 1981 and he spent thousands of hours restoring it to mint condition , despite it having done an estimated 200,000 miles . |
| 12 | This seems to indicate that the concepts ‘ masculine ’ and ‘ feminine ’ are infinitely detachable from anything having to do with ‘ real ’ sexual difference . |
| 13 | He acknowledged asking Watanabe to help silence Nihon Kominto , but suggested that he had " no recollection of anything having to do with that problem " . |