Example sentences of "[prep] it having be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It became a decisive and dangerous piece of initiative and the escaper got the credit of it having been that all the time . |
| 2 | She then ran her finger along the narrow groove between the door and the frame to check for wires in the unlikely event of it having been booby-trapped . |
| 3 | Angel One had argued in vain that the actual heroin loss involved was negligible , most of it having been moved on , and that the setting up of a new base was only a matter of time and resourcefulness . |
| 4 | Nevertheless when the book appeared in November 1948 , passages from it having been previewed in Penguin New Writing 33 , it made a significant impact . |
| 5 | Occasionally a horse starts some form of undesirable behaviour , such as putting its tongue over the bit , due to anxiety alone , and without it having been hurt ; but we still have to cure the anxiety to prevent the unwanted behaviour developing into a habit . |
| 6 | Eventually I untangled them and muttered something to him about it having been a hair-raising experience … |