This alone you should forgive; but will you forgive me for having told it?
I hope that you and I may see them happy together, and that you too may thank me for having assisted in making them so.
Hurd, for having published a mutilated edition under the title of Select Works of Abraham Cowley.
Upon the hands also, for having seized a hand which was not bound to holiness; for having received too burning tears; perhaps for having begun to write and for finishing a response not lawful!
And when Gustave Flaubert said to him: "But, Monsieur de Lamartine, do you know that I have been indicted and summoned to a court of correction for an offense against public morals and religion for having made a book like that?
Flaubert is not only a great artist but a man of heart, for having in the last six pages turned all the horror and scorn upon the woman and all the interest towards the husband.
Occasionally also the bloody image of poor Carlo presented itself to her mind, and she secretly reproached herself for having mourned him for so short a time, for having so soon forgotten that faithful, self-sacrificing friend.
If, on the other hand, the matter should turn out to be serious, you will assuredly get great credit for having discovered it.
Will you also see Ben Ibyn, and thank him from me for having written to Suleiman Ali on my behalf?
I was anxious to go out and fish; for havinggained a good deal of experience with poor Macco, I was in hopes of being able to supply the table with the result of my industry.
I cannot describe the incidents of each day; for having no note-book, they are somewhat mixed up in my memory.
We were too glad to follow her advice, for having been on foot the whole of the previous day, we were completely worn out, and could not have gone many miles further.
Minerva answered, "Never mind about him, I sent him that he might be well spoken of for having gone.
Happy son of Peleus," answered the ghost of Agamemnon, "for having died at Troy far from Argos, while the bravest of the Trojans and the Achaeans fell round you fighting for your body.
I have never read this letter in my collection without blushing and reproaching myselffor having written it.
He made it come upon his hand, and praised it for having sung so well, fed it, and it was only after he had desired it to leave him, and given it his blessing, that the nightingale flew away.
He censured him severely for having had so beautiful a house built, or, at least, for having permitted it to be built.
I answered that he had been delinquent in the exercise of his duty, for having authenticated, as royal notary, a defamatory libel; and that the punishment therefor pertained to the royal jurisdiction.
She does not think herself unfortunate for having travelled, and looks upon all the grandeur she enjoyed at Florence as not to be compared with the unrestrained way of living in which she indulges here.
If you blame me for having engaged in rash speculations, and for endangering the fortune of my children, you are perfectly right; but if you blame me for having resorted to the means I did to free myself, you are wrong.
That is my secret, my dearest Hulda, and you will forgive me for having a secret from you!
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "for having" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
