Example sentences of "[adj -er] for having [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm well , Miss Julie , all the better for having seen you . |
| 2 | She felt better for having made that decision ; perhaps her car would be ready by the time she came back . |
| 3 | She would probably feel a lot better for having done so too . |
| 4 | I suggest that Mr Paul will feel better for having tried this on , and failed , and that his second book will be the one this could have been . |
| 5 | There , she felt better for having got that off her chest . |
| 6 | Tate , so devoted to Eliot 's precedent , appears to have dismissed as amiably perfunctory the respect that Eliot , not quite consistently but repeatedly , accorded to Pound 's prose-writings and Pound 's literary opinions ; and — so it might be argued , though this is not the place for it — Tate 's own verse , and the verse of those he influenced , were the worse for having taken note of Eliot 's precedent without attending equally to Pound 's . |
| 7 | May the lives of those we meet become richer for having known us . |