Example sentences of "[coord] having spent " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having taught English Literature for a long time in universities , on both sides of the Atlantic , and having spent some years pondering the questions raised in this book , I have come to some very tentative conclusions about what might be done ; they are not , I might add , of the kind I thought I would come to when I began working on it . |
| 2 | And the mention of twenty years reminds me that that must be the number of summers you own to , Miss Abbott and that being young and having spent the afternoon in the sea air , you must be hungry . ’ |
| 3 | I have just found your September 92 issue , and having spent most of the day with my nose between its covers I shall put it on order with my local Smiths on Monday . |
| 4 | But having spent all his career in a family business , Sir Adrian has inevitably given a lot of thought to the responsibility a company should have for the community in which it operates . |
| 5 | She herself was British , in fact , but having spent several years as a graduate student in California , where she had been converted to radical feminism , she now thought of herself as spiritually an American , and tried as far as possible to speak like one . |
| 6 | You can make do with string , but having spent so much time and care on creating a perfect picture , you might be somewhat annoyed if it fell to the floor and smashed because the string had broken ! |
| 7 | But having spent many years building up an effective distribution network , we see no reason why this network should be given away to our competitors . |