Example sentences of "he was [verb] [prep] having " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was charged with having received 80,000,000 yen ( about US$630,000 ) in bribes from Kyowa , a steel frame manufacturer which had gone bankrupt in November 1990 , in return for providing confidential information to the firm concerning development projects on Hokkaido . |
| 2 | He was credited with having sorted out and rationalized the administration of North Borneo , a country as large as Ireland . |
| 3 | Apparently before some time in December , he was diagnosed as having an ulcer and almost immediately afterwards had a slight stroke . |
| 4 | ( I once knew an elderly diplomat who had been much annoyed as a young man because he was suspected of having written under the pen-name of ‘ E. |
| 5 | His conversation had the inconsequence that Chekhov gave to his older characters and it was larded with Russian proverbs , many of which he was suspected of having invented himself . |
| 6 | Incidentally he was elected without having to pay any fees . |
| 7 | ‘ He was bucking at having a chaperon at that age . |
| 8 | All the same , he undoubtedly encountered at least some ‘ new country ’ in his courageous and exhausting explorations in the scrubs ; and he was rewarded by having three features in the area — Gould 's Mount , Gould 's Creek , and Gould 's Range — named after him . |
| 9 | He was talking about having her portrait painted : you do n't do that if your marriage is heading for the rocks . ’ |
| 10 | He was accused of having , ‘ with counter-revolutionary aims , collected lists of people detained in the disturbances and passed them on to others , thus undermining the law and violating the ( laws of ) secrecy . ’ |
| 11 | A few years later he was accused of having speculated on the Paris Bourse , using official information . |
| 12 | Eventually he was banned from having anything to do with the Bookman and all his plans were ignored . |
| 13 | When the estate 's then owner , James Tyrell , decided on a new house and gardens in 1734 , he was set upon having the latest fashion . |