Example sentences of "having [been] [prep] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having been to confession and passed through ‘ the wall of fire ’ , Lewis wrote to Sister Penelope , ‘ the suggestion about an orgy of egoism turns out , like all the Enemy propaganda , to have just a grain of truth in it , but I have no doubt that the proper method of dealing with that is as I intend to do , to continue the practice . |
| 2 | but they 're not actually , having been to lunch and |
| 3 | She had never been a snob in the unpleasant sense of the word , but she had always set great store by Father 's material success , and later by my having been to Oxford and then on my becoming a doctor . |
| 4 | Spenser could consider himself a gentleman only on the basis of having been to university and acquired a Master of Arts degree . |
| 5 | In what way will children be better off for having been to school than they would be if they had stayed at home ? |
| 6 | Without having been to college or tech or university , an IBMer at Greenock can take an MBA . |
| 7 | The railway had come from Belfast in 1842 , the original station having been at Seagoe and some will still recall the old sidings which used to be near the signal-box there . |
| 8 | The Captain , having been at work since the call from the hospital at six , had not had time to read the morning paper . |
| 9 | Tim would almost certainly deny having been on board and there was already no one to corroborate her story about the disturbance in the lounge . |
| 10 | Mr Roberts , having been around lesbians and gay men , was aware of the million-dollar underlying issue : is the Heterosexual Family ‘ natural ’ ? |
| 11 | and Thorpe J. No complaint was made by the appellant that Form N79 did not specify the findings of fact , the appellant having been in court and well aware of the position . |
| 12 | And er I include myself in that by having been in sales and marketing for all those years I thought I I could do anything . |