Example sentences of "[pron] having " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have talked in this book about the bereaved person 's need to talk and be recognized as someone having a mourning role , but if few people know us anyway , they are less likely to be aware of the major change in our life and we are less likely to feel able to talk to them about it . |
| 2 | This rumour may have been based on someone having witnessed some signs of a growing affection between Richard and Margaret , but we can not be sure . |
| 3 | It was , I concluded , someone having a driving lesson . |
| 4 | Allen studied the Neolithic revolution and became convinced that it was not a matter of someone having a bright idea and beginning to plant seeds . |
| 5 | OVER the years I have learned to stop wincing at the description of someone having a drink problem . |
| 6 | The hospital spokesman said it was believed a smoke alarm was set off by someone having a cigarette in a toilet . |
| 7 | The other and sometimes more difficult problem arises when the other firm does not exist at all , someone having , quite simply , forged a letterhead . |
| 8 | ‘ Belonging to another ’ briefly means belonging to someone having possession or control of the property . |
| 9 | ‘ Belonging to another ’ is proved by showing that the property was appropriated from someone having possession or control of it , e.g. the owner or tenant etc. of a dwelling house would have possession and control of all the personal property in the house , and the owner or driver of a car would have possession or control of the contents of the car . |
| 10 | Micky and the two girls were looking for a fourth person — someone having just moved out and on . |
| 11 | Similarly , if you ever notice someone having a ‘ good ’ positive argument , even if they seem quite passionate , if you are allowed to listen , try and see what keeps it all on the straight and narrow and allows a beneficial and not destructive outcome to be the result . |
| 12 | It might be said that what Wittgenstein says about the criteria of someone having understood a colour-word provides a reason for answering the question affirmatively . |
| 13 | of someone having left : dust , unsettled |
| 14 | Such is the case , for instance , in ( 69 ) below , where the phrase the notion that suggests surprise at someone having done such a thing as was done , thereby implying that the speaker would not have thought such audacity possible if the occurrence of the event referred to had not come to his knowledge : ( 69 ) … one of those heroes , the air ace Billy Bishop , was recently the focus of a bitter wrangle between the National Film Board and the Senate . |
| 15 | The product does not have to remain in the packaging and the mere possibility of someone having tampered with the goods is not sufficient to exonerate the defendant . |
| 16 | Add to that arguments over which defence budget benefits most from conventional troop reductions , if as seems likely these are agreed in Vienna in the course of 1990 , and we will find ourselves having to bargain over most of the central issues of foreign policy and public expenditure with our West European partners within the same political and institutional framework . |
| 17 | As ITN 's Purvis points out : ‘ Increasingly , we 're going to find ourselves having to argue that news is good business — but I do n't think that 's too difficult . ’ |
| 18 | Maybe the frequent shifts were due to my having BO , ’ Johnny suggests . |
| 19 | If my past work has any value at all , it lies in my having exhorted my readers to love the forest depths ; to feel the enchantment of their vast silences , their cunning hidden flowers ; their murky scents ; the sighing of their leaves ; the teasing hints of sunlight or moonlight through the treetops. forests by coupling with his bride in full view . |
| 20 | I therefore set about thinking of some witty reply ; some statement which would still be safely inoffensive in the event of my having misjudged the situation . |
| 21 | This expedition began this morning almost an hour later than I had planned , despite my having completed my packing and loaded the ford with all necessary items well before eight o'clock . |
| 22 | However , this option , quite aside from the misgivings his lordship was bound to have as regards gossip travelling , entailed my having to rely on unknown quantities just when a mistake could prove most costly . |
| 23 | Perhaps this was rough justice for my having ridden that one mile on the workmen 's lorry on the sixth day . |
| 24 | If people do n't mind my having no degrees , I could give a few music lessons ! |
| 25 | I was ready to fulfil the condition of my having the operation : I had to spend a year ‘ passing ’ as a male in stereotypical working-class jobs . |
| 26 | Imagination from other viewpoints depends on my having already perceived something analogous from the then present and my own , and is undernourished if I was distracted at the time by consideration of the future or of others . |
| 27 | Cocaine thus became another of the subjects which Ellen and I decorously avoided , like the existence of God , the wisdom of my having been a marine , feminism and the cartoons in the New Yorker . |
| 28 | Richard approved of my having an ‘ interest ’ now it did not dominate my life and make his uncomfortable , and the fact that his political opinions were different from mine , made him feel tolerant and wise . |
| 29 | Generally , anyone who invited me to lecture did pay travelling expenses without my having to ask , but there were a lot of other people and places — like farmers and release sites — we had to visit , not to mention collecting food and injured birds . |
| 30 | She had never been a snob in the unpleasant sense of the word , but she had always set great store by Father 's material success , and later by my having been to Oxford and then on my becoming a doctor . |