Example sentences of "having served " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Indeed Joanne was unlucky not to claim the first set , having served for it at 5–3 . |
| 2 | Duncan was dug in at the bottom of the orchard and had called in for a chat on his way from Brigade H.Q He was very interested in bagpipe music , having served with the Gordon Highlanders before joining the Commandos . |
| 3 | Having served three years with the TA , he transferred to the Regular Army three years ago , and although from the Royal Regiment of Wales now sports the Royal Hampshire cap badge for his six-month attachment . |
| 4 | The Belgian team ADR are to sue Greg Lemond after the American left them for their French rivals Z. Lemond , the Tour de France winner and world champion , was lured to Z in September for a record £3.5million fee , having served only half of his two-year contract with the Belgian team . |
| 5 | The Belgian team ADR are to sue Greg Lemond after the American left them for their French rivals Z. Lemond , the Tour de France winner and world champion , was lured to Z in September for a record £3.5million fee , having served only half of his two-year contract with the Belgian team . |
| 6 | The Chiefs of Staff and most senior officers on both sides of the Atlantic and Pacific knew each other , having served together on NATO , CENTO , and SEATO staffs and in exchange appointments in each others ' armed forces . |
| 7 | Calley , who had been sentenced to life imprisonment , was eventually paroled after having served only three years . |
| 8 | Volume IV : The Last Laugh by Michael Holroyd Chatto & Windus , £10.99 HAVING served up George Bernard Shaw in three stout volumes , Michael Holroyd now offers us a slim postscript — an account of the first 40 years of Shaw 's afterlife . |
| 9 | Select committees have had substantial coverage , but all the evidence suggests — and this is my own impression , having served or attended many committees over the years and now seeing them on television — that , with a few minor modifications , the ways these committees work is little changed . |
| 10 | After this he was a little unlucky with injuries and left us at the end of 1935–36 , having served honourably and well . |
| 11 | Mr Wright has been responsibly critical , having served his apprenticeship under John Woodcock , his predecessor , who in his six years ( 1980–86 ) brought to the editorship an authority it had not enjoyed since the great Sidney Pardon . |
| 12 | Picchi , having served in the Italian Army during the First War , settled in England about 1920 . |
| 13 | He stepped down from parliament this year ( having served for 18 years ) . |
| 14 | Take Ventura County , whence came the 12 jurors — six men , six women , six Republicans , six Democrats , 10 white , one Hispanic , one Asian-American , eight having served in the army — who acquitted the cops . |
| 15 | But the suspension also meant that Coker was able to whizz back to Oz for a two-week training camp in Brisbane with Queensland to return having served his time and he missed almost none of the domestic season . |
| 16 | The prime mover was Robert Waldegrave , son of a Worcestershire yeoman , who , having served an eight-year apprenticeship , set up his own press and was soon in trouble . |
| 17 | Having served with the Duke of Wellington 's Regiment in two campaigns on the north-west frontier of India , the Corporal was recalled briefly in 1938 , went to France in 1939 , and spent five days coming out over the Dunkirk beaches . |
| 18 | He was a member of a well-known Jewish banking family in Frankfurt , and had the unique distinction of having served in the trenches in the Kaiser 's uniform in the First World War and then , having sought shelter here from the Nazi persecutions of the 1930s , having served as a British officer in King George 's uniform in the Second . |
| 19 | He was a member of a well-known Jewish banking family in Frankfurt , and had the unique distinction of having served in the trenches in the Kaiser 's uniform in the First World War and then , having sought shelter here from the Nazi persecutions of the 1930s , having served as a British officer in King George 's uniform in the Second . |
| 20 | McMahon hardly considered it would do anything else : ‘ I sit here in my cell writing this , having served almost nine years of a life sentence for a murder I did not commit … |
| 21 | The Appeal Court accepted Richens ' defence of provocation and he was freed , having served a seven year sentence . |
| 22 | A full 12 years after ditching his civil service day job , TV 's Mr Sardonic is a ubiquitous face — having served his time on springboard improv workshop Whose Line Is It Anyway ? as The Other One ( or John Sessions ' bit of rough ) and co-written Julian Clary 's Sticky Moments , Merton soon reached the dizzy but inevitable heights of his own Channel 4 series . |
| 23 | Professor Keith-Lucas was well acquainted with the work of AIB , having served as an assessor during one of the public inquiries in the mid 1960s . |
| 24 | Among the Egyptian volunteers believed to be still in Pakistan are Islamic radicals who went into battle , with travel documents provided by the obliging Saudis , after having served time in Egyptian prisons . |
| 25 | The Director-designate is a known quantity at the National Gallery , having served as curator and administrator from 1976–80 before leaving to head LACMA . |
| 26 | In 1987 he had declined an offer to direct the National Gallery in London , opting instead to lead the Kimbell where he has since conducted an exemplary acquisitions campaign ; also , he has close ties with Mr Mellon , having served as CEO of the Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art , established by the philanthropist at Yale University . |
| 27 | Hodge came from rural Illinois and had climbed the military hierarchy without the prestige of having served at West Point . |
| 28 | But if , having served a term in purgatory , if having had the chance to try his arguments on other philosophers , Hegel was not unrepentant , he might agree that there was perhaps something in the alternative view : that each of the factors affecting historical development does have its own authenticity ; that they act upon and react to one another ; that from time to time this or that factor will take on a greater or lesser importance ; that of course — with a nod in the direction of Marx — at least since the neolithic age and the development of agriculture the mode of production has been a major factor ; and that the actions of particular men , Marx among them , have in fact been formative , changing not merely the degree of development of a kind already prescribed by a programme of social evolution , but the kind of development itself . |
| 29 | The sentence would be reduced to two years , with the balance of the sentence remaining to be served suspended ( the appellant having served six months ) . |
| 30 | Then , having served their demand long after the works were complete , they would have a further six years in which to take proceedings in the High Court or the county court . |