Example sentences of "for having [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He shrugged again , a little embarrassed for having said that . |
| 2 | No longer need he envy his long-dead friend , Martin Fenlon , for having saved the soul of an unrepentant sinner . |
| 3 | Le Pen was on May 23 ordered by a civil court to pay a nominal 1 franc in damages for having stated in a September 1987 radio interview that the gas chambers were " a mere detail " in the history of the Second World War [ see p. 35522 ] . |
| 4 | It is better that you should go to the doctor and feel foolish for having imagined it than ignore it and face dire consequences , because it is real . |
| 5 | We are indebted to Beumont et al for having grasped the nettle in laying down the grade at which a girl or woman can expect to be respected as a climber and transcend the status defined by ‘ bimbo , ’ i.e. interesting only if she happens to be pretty . |
| 6 | Sometimes , when Henry was trying to write a letter of apology to the analyst for having quit , and wondering whether the man was all right — and when Finch was pondering the need to do the same thing — they would wander off together and watch Cecil coaching the people he referred to as ‘ the speaking parts . ’ |
| 7 | In the legend Tristan is condemned to death by his uncle Mark for having fallen in love with Iseult , but on his way to his death is allowed to pause and pray at a wayside chapel . |
| 8 | In view of the technical advance implied it is thought that it was probably he who was the ‘ Mr Showers ’ who was complimented in 1692 for having played in hitherto impossible keys and ‘ with all the softness imaginable ’ ; but at that date the reference might conceivably be to his father or , less probably , his kinsman William . |
| 9 | So that we can go and put our effort in the right places , I 'm awfully sorry to be erm having to push off er in a hurry , but , you know it 's partly my fault for having delayed the start , er |
| 10 | She criticizes John for having accepted too readily the standards of the day and for having adapted too easily to the social and literary context in which he found himself : |
| 11 | Hisashi Shinto , 80 , one of Japan 's most senior industrialists , was on Oct. 9 given a suspended prison sentence of two years for having accepted bribes in the Recruit shares-for-influence scandal whilst serving as chairman of the privatized Nippon Telephone and Telegraph ( NTT ) . |
| 12 | The timing of the Suso affair was particularly unfortunate , for on Feb. 11 three other legislators — two of whom were members of the PPD and one a member of the DLP — were arrested for having accepted bribes from lobbyists . |
| 13 | I can not console myself for having missed it . ’ |
| 14 | We do claim credit for having detected this anger and for having spent a year in working to set up a public meeting at which Thornaby people could express it , but even there we were careful to be non-party political and as a result of that meeting , with the support of Thornaby people and the town 's MP Tim Devlin , we are now carrying the campaign to the proper quarter . |
| 15 | Moreover , the committee , to be commended for having conducted its extensive researches and drawn its conclusions within a few months , has the advantage of immediacy over the Clark and Palmer committees , which sat over so long a period , in a rapidly changing environment , that eventually no one who was still able to recall the original brief was sure whether it was still relevant to the prevailing situation . |
| 16 | The Sun led with an attack on the Sovereign for having asked the Bishop of Durham to a light lunch , but the rest of the papers made gloomy reading for the chairman . |
| 17 | The economic strategy has also been criticized for having placed too much emphasis on manufacturing , especially on large-scale , capital-intensive schemes such as the paper mill at Fort William . |
| 18 | What excuse have SSDs for having achieved so little , despite the vast amount of cash hurled at them by successive governments since the early 1970s ? |
| 19 | For having achieved his object he turns again to his other interests . |
| 20 | I pay tribute to all those who work in the national health service in Wales for having achieved these outstanding results . |
| 21 | Whatever Mr Major 's motives may be for having concluded that your that the process is at an end that your involvement , effectively , with Gerry Adams is at an end , what about Mr Reynolds ' motives ? |
| 22 | On Sept. 17 four dissidents were sentenced to prison terms of between 10 and 24 months for having participated in a demonstration on Sept. 6 outside the Ministry of National Security in Havana . |
| 23 | Once again raising the issue of Clinton 's avoidance of service in the Vietnam war , Bush denounced him for having participated in anti-war demonstrations while residing as a student in the UK , and also questioned the nature of a European holiday in 1969 in which Clinton had visited Moscow . |
| 24 | Billingsley asked with a mocking punctiliousness that was intended to humiliate me , but the humiliation was my own fault for having challenged the policeman 's lie . |
| 25 | It is true that Spinoza is famous for having denied the existence of final causes in nature in the sense in which Aristotle believed in them , that is purposes for which each thing existed . |
| 26 | Was the pain which unbelievers bore all their lives at the prospect of oblivion to be extended into further pain inflicted for having denied the Lord ? |
| 27 | Moreover Prothero , a historian , perhaps had no ideas about poetic diction one way or the other ; Pound , as we have seen , thought himself victimized by Prothero not for anything to do with writing but for having championed Lewis the painter and Gaudier the sculptor . |
| 28 | Both girls quickly turned their faces away , just in case he would want to take revenge on them later for having witnessed his humiliation . |
| 29 | Somehow or other I managed to learn these lessons , becoming anxious to please and to be praised for having pleased . |
| 30 | Edgar 's male chauvinism ( though this was a phrase not yet current ) and his expectation that his work was always , would always be of greater importance , than her own — these were aspects of their mutual dissatisfaction , no doubt , although both were , decades later , to concede that Edgar at this time was paying a high psychological price for having renounced his theatrical ambitions ( old Cambridge friends of his already had their names in lights in the West End , while he was a mere house officer ) and that Liz was still suffering from the trauma of confronting her mother with her total , final defection . |