Example sentences of "having [verb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Castro is reported to have said in private that ‘ we shall not make the same mistake twice ; we shall not break with the Russians after having broken with the Americans ’ ( Suárez : 1967 , p. 175 ) . |
| 2 | Having consulted with the user clubs , it was decided to draw up plans for submission to the planning authority , although further discussions with all concerned would need to be undertaken before giving the final go-ahead . |
| 3 | The England and Manchester United captain was named yesterday in his club squad for the Littlewoods Cup second round , second leg against Portsmouth at Old Trafford tonight , a hairline fracture of the leg having healed with remarkable speed . |
| 4 | In none of these cases do we think of the owner as having parted with the right of ownership , though it may be that the contract between the parties creates rights in favour of the bailee which the owner can not use his right of ownership to override . |
| 5 | ‘ Having parted with my dear flock ’ , he says , ‘ I need not say without mutual sense and tears , I left Mr. Baldwin to live privately among them and oversee them in my stead , and visit them from home to home ; advising them , notwithstanding all the injuries they had received and all the failings of the ministers that preached to them and the defects of the present way of worship , that yet they should keep to the public assemblies and make use of such helps as might be had in public , together with this private help … ‘ ( i.e. r.Baldwin ) . |
| 6 | ‘ shall be unenforceable against the other party [ i.e. the investor ] ; and that party shall be entitled to recover any money or other property paid or transferred by him under the agreement , together with compensation for any loss sustained by him as a result of having parted with it . |
| 7 | She was the author of a brief autobiographical account describing the death in 1674 of her father , whom she was accused of having poisoned with the help of John Bunyan [ q.v. ] , a crime for which , had she been convicted , she could have been burned . |
| 8 | Although the committee was expected primarily to identify people suspected of having collaborated with the Iraqi army , opposition sources quoted in the Guardian of Feb. 13 expressed the fear that such a committee might be used against dissidents , adding that , if this were so , such a body " would be very dangerous if there were no parliament " . |
| 9 | On March 22 a special parliamentary commission named 10 current members of parliament as having collaborated with the former State Security ( StB ) , disbanded two months after the collapse of the communist regime in November 1989 [ see pp. 37026-27 ; 37255 ] . |
| 10 | And within six years , wanting to register ( in The Criter - ion for 1934 ) the distinction of Binyon 's version of the Inferno despite its consistent inversions of prosaic word order , Pound found himself in the same situation , having to contend with those who had learned too well or too inflexibly the lessons he himself had taught them : |
| 11 | The feat was marked by a drain bursting under the pitch soon after play began and flooding one of the run-ups ; inevitably , the umpire concerned was ‘ Dickie ’ Bird , famed for his wariness about the weather , and now having to contend with water coming from below as well as above . |
| 12 | Such untimely celebrity death provides our nice clean ending and saves us having to contend with the natural processes of ageing and decay , for some reason considered more horrific and obscene than going out with a bang . |
| 13 | Not only was the boy outnumbered in this predominantly female household — he had the additional problem of having to contend with a rather cumbersome and unusual first Christian name : Marwood James Henry Titford had presumably been named as such by way of homage to the vicar of Curry Rivel , the Rev. Charles Marwood Speke Mules . |
| 14 | Obviously , a child returning from school to find his own study quarters where he has books at his disposal and sympathetic parents who can offer cogent remarks on his work and broaden his outlook with lively , stimulating conversation , will be able to get more out of education than a child who , when doing his homework , has to share the kitchen table with plates , cutlery and cruet as well as the pet cat and having to contend with ‘ Crossroads ’ as the main intellectual challenge of the evening . |
| 15 | Isobel was ambitious , and had her sights set on the national news media ; unfortunately , so did every other young news-hustler in every backwater station in the country , and few of them were having to contend with sinuses that felt as if they 'd been stuffed with pillows . |
| 16 | ‘ You 'll have your work cut out to do that — to say nothing about having to contend with Matt 's opposition to the idea . |
| 17 | The 39-year-old Scot , despite having to contend with hay fever and a heavy cold , kept Ian Woosnam , Paul Broadhurst and Johan Rystrom at bay to move up to sixth place in the Ryder Cup points list . |
| 18 | I myself did not know anything about this and having checked with Gillyan Ford and all Publicity Assistants , found that they too had had no previous indication of the requirement to scan adverts . |
| 19 | The gentleman with the white waistcoat was standing at the gate with his hands behind him after having delivered himself having witnessed with the donkey he smiled rejoicedly when that the door , he saw at once it was Mr Mr smiled as he pursued the I am said the gentleman in the white waistcoat |
| 20 | I left Miklós to his translation , having arranged with him that we should meet for lunch two days later . |
| 21 | In November 1990 he was appointed Chairman and Chief Executive of Davies & Newman Holdings ( Dan-Air ) , having arranged with the company 's bankers a refinancing package . |
| 22 | Following disagreements with the Genevan authorities , he moved in the later 1960s , first to London and then to Banbury , where he died 10 November 1976 , having arranged with the University of Oxford for the bequest of his scholarly research interests ( the Voltaire Foundation ) to the Taylor Institution there . |
| 23 | This convergence may have less to do with ideology than with political ‘ learning ’ and having to cope with unanticipated events . |
| 24 | In the same space of time she had married , embarked on a new and totally alien job , had a baby , celebrated her twenty-first birthday , and then had a second child — all momentous events in anyone 's life , without the other pressures she was having to cope with . |
| 25 | The government reckoned that Poles were having to cope with about as much economic pain as they would tolerate . |
| 26 | ‘ We have evidence that once past December wheat growers having to cope with difficult blackgrass populations can lose £100/ha for every month the weed is left unchecked . ’ |
| 27 | Now in the wake of his service there , having to cope with the vivid reminders of how worth it it was and how tragic a loss of life of Vietnamese … |
| 28 | If the box is overfull , then the overdrive seals are having to cope with excessive quantities of oil and are not doing so . |
| 29 | For example , being kept awake by a sufferer who can not sleep having to be continually watchful of someone who may do dangerous things , and having to cope with continual questioning or aggression may become unbearable . |
| 30 | The two control sample carers ( Mrs Mitchell 's daughter and Mrs Wilkins ' nephew ) were both still quite definite about wanting to see their relative in institutional care ; Mrs Mitchell 's daughter said that she was becoming more and more anxious about her mother being at risk at home ; and Mrs Wilkins ' nephew saying that she was more than ever in need of care , and the strain upon him of having to cope with her difficult personality was making him wish even more acutely for institutional care . |