Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] having [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were the people who were already ‘ suffering greatly from having some 57,000 boat people there and more and more and more would come when the season came for them to leave Vietnam . ’ |
| 2 | Of two people who were drawn together by convention and sexuality but , I suspect , lived their short lives together without having much knowledge of , or much to do with , each other . |
| 3 | Is it really worth having all the injections to go ? |
| 4 | and then it 'll be all the rates , I know I can get a bit of rebate , but er , I do n't do bad really after having some rebate , but |
| 5 | Oh , what pleasure would it be to me were there a good understanding between my mother and myself , when I am assured if I know my own heart , that I am so far from having any ill against her that I have almost undone myself to serve her … |
| 6 | If we turn to the history of man 's creation in the sacred volume , we find that his mission was simply to dress and keep the garden of Eden and to serve and obey his Creator … and that , so far from having any mission to pry into the laws by which the Almighty governs His creation , he was expressly forbidden to do so . |
| 7 | The offences charged had already been committed before the appellants entered the shop and the police , so far from having any dishonest intent , were concerned to return the property to its rightful owners and bring offenders to justice . |
| 8 | You do n't get from where he came to where he is now without having some degree of substance . |
| 9 | If we are above government guidelines it is the labour party 's fault and if indeed we are penalised in the future it is the labour party 's fault , none other and to the extent that you run the risk now by having this excess eleven percent budget over the er standing expenditure assessment er will once again unfortunately find you guilty in that regard . |
| 10 | Although some horses will travel in horse trailers as if it is second nature to them , even without having any previous related experience ; and some horses will stand perfectly and quietly for the farrier when they are being shod for the first time ; many will not ! |
| 11 | But it will never be solved simply by having more police officers . |
| 12 | But I personally feel that it needs complete refurbishment and that costs money I think that the points been raised earlier about having some sort of jazz pub here or some pub here is very bad and I think we could investigate that . |
| 13 | by the time I had gone through five operations I decided that as long as I could breath , that would do me and I , I would really recommend every body to think twice before having any form of plastic surgery , particularly unless its , if its not absolutely necessary . |
| 14 | We are n't prevented from having the debate and indeed in having that debate Hambleton will have to prove they 've made drawn the right boundaries . |
| 15 | Instead of having all these different mortgage companies , Abbey National and that , the government have er , have er , a whatsname to do it , they 're would n't be half and a quarter . |
| 16 | But they could of easily just said , well , come in Monday , Tuesday , off Wednesday , and Thursday and Friday instead of having all them days off . |
| 17 | What they should 've done , instead of having all them machines on that moors they should 've had damn bugger stripped to waist digging it out . |
| 18 | Well because they 've had , instead of having this sleep , they 'll , they 'll have had their consultants round |
| 19 | An exhausted Miranda found that instead of having more time , she had almost a full-time job keeping present and future shareholders informed and happy : she prepared official reports , gave institutional and pension-fund presentations , attended city lunches , and made time in her overfilled schedule for the financial press . |
| 20 | Instead of having more , we 've got less . |
| 21 | Instead of having another bridesmaid , have a page boy and so the two little ones go up together page boy |
| 22 | What we 're going to try and find out erm so instead of having these three hours and things we 'll say at at three o'clock it goes through Manchester and at five o'clock it goes through Carlisle . |
| 23 | They used to er se , we could n't carry the empty ga , you can imagine that 's not express parcel stuff , but the valves er , would sometimes need er replacing and we would send them a valve and , and while , instead of having any down time , we would give them you know deliver the spare , have the spare come back for repair . |
| 24 | The cimetidine treated xenografts were identical in all respects to the xenografts from the other groups apart from having less necrotic areas , possibly because thy had not outgrown their blood supply to the same extent as the other tumours . |
| 25 | He loves being a parent as much as I do , so we 're looking forward to having another baby . |
| 26 | He 's been here several times before , and er , we do look forward to having another interesting morning with you , and I understand that er , you 're going to give us a musical morning , this morning , and er , |
| 27 | Sammy is already an accomplished player of the electric organ and looks forward to having more time for this and volunteer work . |
| 28 | Mrs Grove-Stephensen is leaving the post at the age of 60 and is looking forward to having more time to devote to church work . |
| 29 | In retirement Mr Hewitt is looking forward to having more time for reading , preferring biographies and works of historical interest , with French literature his main love . |
| 30 | ‘ Self-management ’ of facilities by people who use these facilities either by having several user representatives on the management group or , where possible , by a user-only management group , supported if necessary by a professional administrator |