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Example sentences for "having done"

  • He could not understand how people could bring themselves to do such things, nor how, having done them, they could ever look their fellows in the face again.

  • Osmond Orgreave could not be ruffled; he could not be deprived of his air of having done a favour to Darius Clayhanger; his social and moral superiority, his real aloofness, remained absolutely unimpaired.

  • I thanked and refused them all, and sent back at least four thousand ducats, and was very proud of having done so.

  • My back was somewhat scarified, but I had the proud consciousness of having done my duty, and I went back and slept at the inn, where they were glad to see me.

  • After this sensible decision and a good supper I went to my lonely couch without any regret, for I was happy in the consciousness of having done a good action.

  • The elder sister thought I was duped, for in two months I had paid three hundred francs without having done anything, and she attributed my reserve to avarice.

  • Having done so, I shall be ready to proceed with this person to Miss Halcombe's room.

  • Having done this, I again walked northward till I reached the New Road.

  • At one moment I found myself doubting the reality of my own adventure; at another I was perplexed and distressed by an uneasy sense of having done wrong, which yet left me confusedly ignorant of how I could have done right.

  • Having done this I went home, and after supper to bed, my mind being eased in knowing my condition, though troubled to think that I have been forced to spend so much.

  • I do distinctly--and in spite of my having done all I could think of--to make him capable of a greater.

  • Having done this, when the evening came, I shut myself up within this circle, with the melancholy satisfaction, that I had neglected nothing which could preserve me from the cruel destiny with which I was threatened.

  • Having done this, he retired fiercely, and entering again into the aperture, it closed, and the wall appeared just as it did before.

  • But the plea of necessity is introduced when the accused person is defended as having done what he is accused of having done under the influence of compulsion.

  • Having done this he made a sign to the woman, and said to her, Do according to thy choice:--whereupon she descended the stairs.

  • Having done what he had done he would have no right to shrink from such usage.

  • Having done so, he called to Croll, who was standing on the landing-place, and told him to seat himself in the back drawing-room till he should be called.

  • Having done so much, and feeling that there was no more to be done, he returned home.

  • Having done this he again closed the drawer, drew back the bolt of the door, and, seating himself at his own desk, rang the bell which was close to hand.

  • Having done this he slowly deposited the pipe which he still held in his right hand.

  • Having done this, he went into all the rooms of the castle and set the prisoners free and gathered together all the treasure he found.

  • Having done this, she turned her attention to the broken pillar, and with the legs of a very large tortoise she mended it.

  • Having done this he made a sword of wood and jammed it tightly in the shaft of his own strong sword.

  • Having done this, one should go through the worship of the Pitris and the deities, agreeably with the ordinances of the Vedas.

  • Having done this, that foremost of Munis became filled with regret at the idea of having achieved an act that had not (to his knowledge) been laid down in any of the scriptures.

  • He should, having done such an act, undergo expiation according to the rites laid down in the scriptures.

  • Seeing the plight to which the frogs were reduced for having done them a service, the deities, O best of the Bhrigus, showed favour unto those creatures.

  • Having done so, she coaxed him below, sailed off with him there and then, kept him under lock and key until he had paid a ransom of over four hundred thousand guilders, when he was put ashore again.

  • Having done so, he continued: "I don't know that I quite follow you!

  • Arriving at my room, I lit a candle and pushed a chair forward for him; having done so I took up my position beside the open window.

  • So saying, I unpacked my things, and, having done so, vaccinated my second in command.

  • Having done this, and having given the beasts, fishes, and all feathered creatures to him for his food and raiment, he bade the man farewell and took his departure.

  • Having done this he told his young men to take the bears and tie one at the door of each lodge, that they might remain in future as slaves.

  • Having done this he searched about for cast-out bones of animals, pieces of skin, clippings of dried meat, and even dirt.

  • We do our duty whether or not we foresee advantage in having done it.

  • We should find our satisfaction in having done it, even at the cost of all our other satisfactions.

  • In the end it reckons with the advantage of having done one's duty.

  • Offender you are, and that's certain, having done offence in that you did resist apprehension.

  • Having done this, she may exchange salutations with such friends and acquaintances as may be in the room.

  • Having done so, he pulls the covering from his eyes, and valses off with her.

  • Having done this, he may exchange salutations with such friends and acquaintances as may be in the room.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "having done" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bills payable; having arrived; having been the first; having fallen; having first; having heard; having left; having listened; having little; having long; having occurred; having passed; having power; having recourse; having regard; having seen; having seven heads and ten horns; having some; having something; having written; hereditary transmission; individual consciousness; mile ahead; solo instrument; started for; these books