Example sentences of "[coord] having [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the Acts it is a criminal offence for a dealer to offer or agree to give an inducement or reward to another for abstaining or having abstained from bidding . |
| 2 | It was n't a statement she was used to making , or having questioned . |
| 3 | It is true that many experienced abseilers will tackle the steepest descents without any protection or having tied the hanging rope ends together . |
| 4 | It was n't just being in love , or having made love — it was the feeling of being two against the world . |
| 5 | Most of our red deer are feral , having been introduced to or having escaped from deer parks . |
| 6 | If the retaining bar on the main bed is worn , that is , with the sponge damaged , worn out or having lost its spring , you will get problems when knitting . |
| 7 | The fines , donations of money , packets of crisps , biscuits and home-made cakes , were imposed for ludicrous offences : not having clipped the hedge , or having clipped the hedge ; leaving a gate open ; having , or not having , curtains across the windows . |
| 8 | And having arrived in Zurich , or having returned there at the end of a tour round north Switzerland , visitors will probably want to spend a little time in a city about which they have heard so much . |
| 9 | A court , if it wishes to interfere , can always characterise an alleged error as having resulted from asking the wrong question , or having taken account of irrelevant considerations . |
| 10 | There must have been dozens of dead animals lying around , most of them killed by shrapnel or having wandered into a minefield . |
| 11 | On the return from Venice you will again fly ( or coach ) , or having enjoyed three extra nights in a superb hotel in Venice , you will return on the world-famous and exclusively chartered Orient Express train . |
| 12 | This can be diagrammed in the following way for the early interception : and as follows for the final one : The to infinitive , therefore , is not strictly speaking a verb but rather a syntactic construction : it involves two parts , the infinitive , a verbal form which evokes a representation of an event produced by means of the verb system , and to , a preposition which indicates a relationship between the place in time where the support has to be situated to begin actualizing the infinitive 's event ( occupied by the representation of non-ordinalized person incorporated within the infinitive ) and some other prior place in time which the support is also represented as occupying or having occupied previous to the realization of this event . |
| 13 | More specifically , in allowing certain individuals the benefits of incorporation the state is viewed as having made a concession or having bestowed a privilege on them . |
| 14 | Dr Arnold lauded the Reference team as much as he did his favourite orchestra , who sat down and played his works without any rehearsals or having read the music . |
| 15 | Nigel having made his views clear by letter and having gained the support of the National Association of Water Power Users , no summons was issued . |
| 16 | Thus provided with capital and having gained almost a decade of experience in the iron industry , he resolved to set up a similar ironworks with the assistance of his two elder sons , John and Archibald . |
| 17 | Paul tells the Ephesians that having heard the word of truth and having believed the good news of salvation , they are ‘ in Christ ’ and have been sealed with the Holy Spirit who was promised long ago ( 1:13 , cf. 2 Cor. 2:21 ) . |
| 18 | But if that were the explanation , it would imply that the movement was only willing to act in the general interest when the Labour Party formed an assured Government , and having decided that its defeat was impending , abandoned any sense of responsibility save for the unions ' immediate , sectional interests . |
| 19 | We further agreed that we would make no promises and twist no arms , and having decided on this general strategy , my friends urged me to leave the campaign to them . |
| 20 | For several years he has been a helper , and having decided to return to Birmingham where he had a distinguished career as a teacher of English , he resolved to give us the greater part of the library , collected over many years by himself and his late wife . |
| 21 | Curiosity got the better of Yanto however , and having vaulted the fence , he made his way over the one hundred and fifty yards of re-claimed field that separated the pub from the riverbank . |
| 22 | Perhaps she should have had a brother or sister for Tina , though being well into her forties by then and having waited twelve years for Tina to come along made that impossible . |
| 23 | The vacancy was filled first by the Rev. H. Cottam , Rector of St. Mary 's , Crumpsall , who knew the school well , having been one of the Annual Examiners and having stood in during a previous illness , of Hamilton 's in 1875 . |
| 24 | She made a very positive effort to be the right kind of person to be around — in other words , she was not a liability , she was an asset , an extremely good cook and a very good organiser , and having discovered that we both went to the same school in Switzerland where French was the main language taught , we would enjoy talking to each other in French , much to the annoyance of David who could n't understand the language . ’ |
| 25 | I decided that in my present state I could n't face Moscow , and having discovered about the hot , spring baths of Budapest and the chess players who stand in water at 76 degrees Celsius , leisurely moving the pieces , decided that it was the place for me . |
| 26 | On seventeenth of August nineteen sixty seven object of defeating the option and having discovered through the result of his solicitors that the option had not been registered , sold and been paid the farm five hundred pounds and after the sale by registering the option under the land chartered act and on the sixth of October nineteen sixty seventeen could have exercised the option and neither or his wife complied with the notice and on March twenty eighth nineteen sixty eight wife died and on the twenty seventh of January nineteen seventy commenced proceedings against his father against his mother 's executors the declaration of the option was . |
| 27 | And having saved John Smith 's skin at the Labour party Conference , with his rumbustious performance in the one member , one vote debate , Mr Prescot knew he was in a position to call in his debts . |
| 28 | Perhaps he had believed he was to go with the main reconnaissance party , and having written his last letter did not like to write to me again to cause me what he thought would be further confusion and anxiety . |
| 29 | General Hawley had only reached Edinburgh on 6 January , and having built up his strength , wrote optimistically of ‘ driving the rascally scum out of Stirling ’ . |
| 30 | Having known him in this country and having travelled around Israel with him , I know that he is tough and resilient . |