Example sentences of "having for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must have a look round later , maybe look in at the big house , and see what Shimi Lovat and his officers were having for dinner . |
| 2 | A year ago , having for the previous five years been one of the quietest incumbents of the Quirinale Palace , Mr Cossiga announced his intention ‘ to shake a few pebbles out of my shoes ’ . |
| 3 | Moya , a seemingly relaxed woman in her forties , described her attacks , which she has been having for 20 years , as ‘ an enormous blackness and fear , like being held under water ’ . |
| 4 | What are you having for dinner ? |
| 5 | Christopher and I then returned to the fringes of power , having for a time been drawn perilously close to the centre . ’ |
| 6 | As for the Irish , bless ‘ em , well … sure and bejabbers , they 'll be back in the morning to tell us what they 're having for dinner today … |
| 7 | Some of the reasons they encountered for not losing weight included ‘ I have n't been to the toilet yet today ’ , ‘ I 've been arguing with my husband ’ , ‘ I absorb fat through my skin ’ , ( especially popular with people working in chip shops and serving school meals ) and ‘ it 's the cough medicine I 'm having for my sore throat ’ . |
| 8 | This fertility , according to Nigel , was due to the miller 's no doubt having for years , when clearing the millpond of silt , put it straight on the land , nothing being more nutritious . |
| 9 | Having for years either aped Hollywood or presented us with cheery Cockney families braving the Blitz , a whole slew of films came along ( A Taste Of Honey , Saturday Night And Sunday Morning , etc ) that simultaneously both oddly dissected and glorified the northern working class experience of the early '60s . |
| 10 | We shall have more to say about this in the next chapter : it was to produce a quite bewildering variety of ‘ reconstructions ’ of Jesus ' personality and history , having for the most part only one thing in common — the conviction that whatever the truth about him might be , it was not the traditional Christian picture of him . |
| 11 | Worth having for the illustrations of lesser known works , some of considerable merit . |
| 12 | But this CD is well worth having for everything else . |
| 13 | 203 , the corporation , having for a number of years paid purchase tax on manufactured stationery , erroneously believing it to be due , sought to recover it when it was held not to be chargeable . |
| 14 | in the end , you 're just whizzing through it , you 're thinking about what you 're having for your tea . |
| 15 | He saw geology as disclosing the preparations ‘ for the reception of organized beings , a history which has all the character of a great epic , having for its hero , MAN ’ . |
| 16 | Having for ten years owned and managed one of the most successful econometric consultancy companies in the world ( then called Economic Models Limited ) , I became increasingly disabused of notions for controlling the flow of economic events against their natural movement . |
| 17 | If we allow for a stochastic element in lifetime income , then individuals may respond rather differently , having for example a lower propensity to consume out of windfall or ‘ entrepreneurial ’ gains . |
| 18 | The anniversary of Pinochet 's coup which overthrew President Salvador Allende in 1973 , still commemorated as a public holiday on Sept. 11 ( the Senate having for the third consecutive year rejected a bill to abolish this holiday ) , was marked by a 21-gun salute by the military . |
| 19 | A common agreement between two or more persons having for its object the death of all of them , whether or not each is to take his own life , but nothing shall be treated as done by him in pursuance of the pact unless it is done while he has the settled intention of dying in pursuance of the pact . |
| 20 | ‘ What are you having for breakfast ? ’ |
| 21 | The company pleaded guilty at Kirkby Magistrates ' Court to a total of 15 charges , including having for sale six packs of sausages containing fat which had gone rancid and two packets of meat contaminated by mould . |
| 22 | I think this book is worth having for a professional needing some facts in a hurry and for a student wanting an introduction to intersection control . |
| 23 | She is in fact already a teacher of a few years ' experience , with one class in her own village of Strathkinness in Fife , and two more in nearby St. Andrews ; she has even more experience as a traveller , having for some time regularly made the journey to Edinburgh by bicycle and train to attend training Saturdays with Rita Quick and Monday recreational classes with Muriel Jessop , and during the last two years undertaken the long trip south to take part in Aston Clinton weekends . |
| 24 | And what we having for lunch ? |
| 25 | What are they having for their pudding ? |
| 26 | What we having for tea ? |
| 27 | What are we having for lunch for Sunday lunch ? |
| 28 | Well they said what you having for tea and I said well we 'll have to have you can have a few beans or something |
| 29 | Yeah , what you having for your tea ? |
| 30 | Wh , wh , what you having for Christmas then ? |