Example sentences of "having [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having secretly decided during his childhood to be a doctor , he had to give the idea up due to his deafness and decided to take up a farming career , enrolling at the Elsenberg Agricultural College , 30 miles from Cape Town . |
| 2 | Their last , eponymously-titled record pointed the way , but having since roped in REM 's Peter Buck to handle production chores , this Minneapolis five-piece are a far more consistent proposition — albeit one still inclined to take five and freak out . |
| 3 | Their last , eponymously-titled record pointed the way , but having since roped in REM 's Peter Buck to handle production chores , this Minneapolis five-piece are a far more consistent proposition — albeit one still inclined to take five and freak out . |
| 4 | Mr. Howell submitted that Parliament having expressly dealt with the case of an admissions policy designed to preserve the character of the school in subsections ( 3 ) ( b ) and ( 6 ) , it was not open to the school ( even though over-subscribed ) to apply such a policy under section 6(3) ( a ) in selecting the applicants who were to be rejected . |
| 5 | But having politely listened to Mrs Thatcher 's remarks and having promised to pay due attention to Whitehall 's alternative strategy , the summit made it clear that their strategy for monetary union would broadly follow the blueprint laid down . |
| 6 | She was much better in herself and the sinus problem having effectively gone by Puls LM3 she was left with hot flushes and no further improvement . |
| 7 | Thus , in 1202 at the Lincolnshire Assize , the defendant was acquitted of rape , having successfully argued in his defence that ‘ tunc et prius et post fuit succuba eius ’ — she had lain with him both before and afterwards . |
| 8 | Having successfully seconded through the Task Force one manager to refurbish industrial estates in Knowsley and Kirkby , United Biscuits promptly closed a food-processing plant at Knowsley with the loss of 2,000 jobs . |
| 9 | The guilt people feel at having perhaps contributed to the illness or accident can be overwhelming . |
| 10 | It was these crafts — cordwainers , girdlers , fishmongers , wool-packers , for example — which formed the heart of the popular movement , having greatly expanded in numbers during the previous hundred years yet been excluded from political power and forbidden to organize by the aldermen . |
| 11 | Until 1966 the House of Lords was also bound by its own previous decisions having so decided in London Street Tramways v. |
| 12 | ‘ Like his lovely lady wife having inadvertently poisoned off his star pupil , you mean ? |
| 13 | Other aspects of his answers are equally interesting : he admits to not having won any prizes or scholarships , having apparently settled for doing what was required — that , and no more ! |
| 14 | This brought them to Teviot , in the Hawick area , where they learned that the Balliol company had passed there , avoiding the town , the morning before , having apparently camped at Goldielands just to the west . |
| 15 | Prague has a long history of defenestrations and in 1948 Jan Masaryk , the foreign minister , the founding president 's son and one of only three non-communist ministers in the government , was found dead , having apparently exited from his office window . |
| 16 | Having gingerly discarded over a hedge bits of rotted fruit and suspect cheese , I lunched on olives and mineral water in the shade of a great oak wood . |
| 17 | He looked from one to another of those gathered around them — the thought having suddenly occurred to him . |
| 18 | Pontypridd , whose lone cup final appearance in 1978–79 ended in an 18–12 defeat against Bridgend , were very much on their guard for the unexpected , having only scraped through 12–10 against renowned giantkillers Tondu in the previous round . |
| 19 | Willie had tried vainly to lift the kettle from off the range and , having only succeeded in burning his hand , he waited anxiously for Mister Tom 's return . |
| 20 | The moment of truth comes on Tuesday when they meet unstoppable Portadown in a quarter-final at Shamrock Park , Glentoran having only qualified on goal difference . |
| 21 | Fiona Hayes-Drummond of The Times , languidly beautiful , confessed to having only dipped into them . |
| 22 | HAVING ALREADY REFERRED to types of watercoloured paper and their manufacturer in the August issue , I am this month going to refer back to and expand upon certain areas . |
| 23 | Rebel Ruddock emerged as the players ' spokesman for Venables , speaking up for him in the High Court yesterday , having already slapped in a transfer request to Sugar . |
| 24 | A lead of sorts has been given by the national archives of north America with the Center for Electronic Records of the National Archives of the United States having already archived in access of 10,000 records or wearying size and complexity , and with the Canadians also pursuing an active of storing governmental records in machine-readable form ( National Archive 1991 ; National Historical Publications 1991 ) . |
| 25 | Having already written for the NME for several months as the transvestite sex-poet Susan Williams I was nervous , a straw sucker acting brash in a den of sophisticates . |
| 26 | Mikhail Gorbachev , the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovietskogo Soyuza — CPSU ) , was elected to the new presidency on March 15 , having already served as executive President of the Soviet Union since May 1989 in his former capacity as Chairman of the USSR Supreme Soviet [ see p. 37297 ] . |
| 27 | In 1856 French secretaries of embassy and legation were divided into three classes and it was ordered that no one was to reach the third and lowest class without having already served as an attaché for three years , while everyone must spend at least three more in each class before being promoted to a higher one . |
| 28 | The Regent desired him , as proposer of the scheme , and as having already served with the Earl of Dunbar , to accompany Sir Simon Fraser down to the Earl 's camp near Berwick , there to help that man inform Dunbar of the decisions made and to assist in convincing him to take over the keepership of Berwick Castle . |
| 29 | His second son succeeded him as a clothier , his eldest son , Sir James , having already moved into the ranks of the landed gentry . |
| 30 | The Congress had rejected the legislation on May 31 , having already defeated in mid-May the government 's attempt to introduce emergency measures to raise taxes on financial transactions ( to restrict the expansion of credit ) and to cut the wages of public employees covered by statutory job security . |