Example sentences of "having [be] [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zambia had dreaded Tammuz seeing hir battered flesh , feeling sure he would be sickened by the thought of others having been intimate with hir so recently . |
| 2 | Even the novelist George Gissing , who was ‘ no friend of the people ’ and who was the most scathing critic of so many aspects of the new popular culture , has his fictional alter ego Henry Ryecroft recalling the pleasures of having been young in London , of the public houses with their ‘ pints of foaming ale ’ and the supper bars with their ‘ sausage and mash ’ , of the theatres where one could ‘ roll and hustle with the throng at the pit-door ’ , and of walking home singing as he went . |
| 3 | The issue resurfaced almost immediately , however , in the form of a sexually explicit interview published by the Star ( a supermarket tabloid which had originally published the Nichols allegations ) , with a state employee , Gennifer Flowers , one of the woman named by Nichols as having been involved with Clinton . |
| 4 | Section 11 of the Act authorises police officers to arrest anyone they suspect of being or having been involved in terrorist activity . |
| 5 | Having been involved in displays of this kind for some years , the northwest clubs ' displays were very elaborate and some clever display techniques were seen . |
| 6 | Jane 's neighbour , Alfred , for instance , was reputedly a millionaire , having been successful in scrap and demolition . |
| 7 | I came to it through climbing , having been active in mountaineering for years . |
| 8 | They did not really want Edward du Cann- he was recognised as having been disloyal to Ted Heath , and his City activities , with Lonrho and Keyser Ullman , were not universally accepted . |
| 9 | Doris is no stranger to the UK , having been resident at Duxford in the mid-1970s during its flight from India to the USA . |