Example sentences of "[pron] having [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This rumour may have been based on someone having witnessed some signs of a growing affection between Richard and Margaret , but we can not be sure . |
| 2 | Such is the case , for instance , in ( 69 ) below , where the phrase the notion that suggests surprise at someone having done such a thing as was done , thereby implying that the speaker would not have thought such audacity possible if the occurrence of the event referred to had not come to his knowledge : ( 69 ) … one of those heroes , the air ace Billy Bishop , was recently the focus of a bitter wrangle between the National Film Board and the Senate . |
| 3 | It might be said that what Wittgenstein says about the criteria of someone having understood a colour-word provides a reason for answering the question affirmatively . |
| 4 | The product does not have to remain in the packaging and the mere possibility of someone having tampered with the goods is not sufficient to exonerate the defendant . |
| 5 | of someone having left : dust , unsettled |
| 6 | Perhaps this was rough justice for my having ridden that one mile on the workmen 's lorry on the sixth day . |
| 7 | By that time my personal relations with him had cooled , so there was no question of my having seen any of the names . |
| 8 | — I believe I am anything but candid : in fact — I am naturally suspicious — & exceedingly reserved , the first good quality arises from my having seen plenty of the evil part of the world from my youth up — the second from being but very little used to company or society — for — excepting Mr. Yarrell — ( whom Mrs. Hewitson & Atkinson know , ) — to whom I go to study bones & muscles — I do n't know a single person in all London to visit intimately . ’ |
| 9 | This expedition began this morning almost an hour later than I had planned , despite my having completed my packing and loaded the ford with all necessary items well before eight o'clock . |
| 10 | I therefore set about thinking of some witty reply ; some statement which would still be safely inoffensive in the event of my having misjudged the situation . |
| 11 | ‘ She never mentioned my having got stuck here as well , but I could hardly look her in the face . |
| 12 | I attempted desperately to convince myself that what I was experiencing was just a particularly cruel and hateful dream concocted by some part of my mind determined to exact due penalty from my conscience for my having behaved with such despicable lack of grace during the holidays … but failed utterly ; my sub-conscious ' stock of nightmare-paradigms includes nothing so banally twisted as Gav . |
| 13 | If my past work has any value at all , it lies in my having exhorted my readers to love the forest depths ; to feel the enchantment of their vast silences , their cunning hidden flowers ; their murky scents ; the sighing of their leaves ; the teasing hints of sunlight or moonlight through the treetops. forests by coupling with his bride in full view . |
| 14 | Although the despatch was written modestly , still the circumstances in themselves — my having recaptured an Indiaman , and earned , by boarding , a vessel of equal force to my own , and superior in men — had a very good appearance , and I certainly obtained greater credit than I really deserved . |
| 15 | What I , and I having heard the director , what I want to be clear about , is that any decision which relates to closing local schools on , on economic grounds comes to the full county council , and is , is not dealt with by education . |
| 16 | The question arises as to whether this is the result of their having fallen into apathy out of fear of repression and a belief that it is not possible to make progress ; or whether it is precisely because they have been making progress through existing channels that the militant challenge has withered . |
| 17 | If they had left someone in charge of the horses nothing could be done , but he counted on their having kept together . |
| 18 | This must not be dismissed as mere metaphor since it could also be true of the reader , for whom a health check might reveal their having suffered from a range of complaints in blissful ignorance . |
| 19 | Could it be that your success may remove much of the justification for their having done nothing , often for many years ? |
| 20 | The Captain had been right about their having lost a guard as well as a feeder . |
| 21 | A Japanese government spokesman claimed that post mortems had revealed parasites in the animals ' ears which may have resulted in their having lost their sense of direction . |
| 22 | In 1817 the lost watch was unearthed by a mole , and a stirrup and horseshoe were found in the Queen 's Mire , though there is no firm evidence of their having come from Mary 's horse . |
| 23 | Sadly , however , the return tip was marred by the death of two members of the Rhodesian patrol , killed in an attack by two Blenheims , in spite of their having spread out the correct air recognition signals . |
| 24 | Much of the Tories ' present difficulty is , in my view , caused by their having spent 16 months being politically correct themselves . |
| 25 | The superiority of this latter group on a test task which involved choice between A and B could well depend on their having learned different labels ( and on the control group having learned the same label ) for these stimuli . |
| 26 | Cited works may be used without consultation , or may be used without their having had any real influence on the ideas contained in the paper . |
| 27 | In both cases the success of the university sub-disciplinary segments can be seen as having partly resulted from their having found allies outside of their own organizations . |
| 28 | By 1909 then , Picasso and Braque had initiated the first phase of Cubism ; the art which both painters were producing was the result of a new freedom which arose from their having discarded all scientific systems and theories . |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | Louis Dersingham was clearly annoyed to find himself having answered his sister in the first place . |