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Example sentences for "having received"

  • Jimcrack and Nicknack were surprised at having received no payment for sundry expensive articles of jewelry and vertu.

  • His decision that I, having received a majority of the votes cast, was duly elected, was clearly right, and this was conceded, but his imperfect English created great noise and merriment.

  • General Cass received the vote of Ohio, but General Taylor was elected President, having received a majority of the electoral vote.

  • He replied, No; for that he had no recollection of having received it.

  • The Memoir continues: 'On May 3rd Chamberlain, who had decided to take the Irish Secretaryship if offered to him, was astonished at having received no offer.

  • Which also I did at Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority of the chief priests.

  • When this was known, Nicanor was in a consternation, and took it grievously that he should make void the articles that were agreed upon, having received no injury from the man.

  • Judas then, having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons.

  • The consul falls, having received a mortal wound, and all around him are dispersed.

  • Quintius laid down his dictatorship on the sixteenth day, having received it for six months.

  • The motion for the previous question having received a second, the main question was ordered.

  • Having received it, he went in the boat, with twenty men, to a village where he only saw one man with a little boy.

  • Having received a good return, they went back to their island.

  • Lindsay of Scott County, in the ambulance, he having received a mortal wound from which he died that night while lying upon the same blanket with myself.

  • But at last, having received a wound on the right shoulder, which part of his body alone was unprotected during the battle, he wheeled round.

  • Then Spitamenes, having received a reinforcement of 600 Scythian horsemen, was further emboldened by the Scythian alliance to wait and receive the Macedonians who were advancing upon him.

  • Some say that Alexander, having received a blow on the head with a piece of wood, fell down in a fit of dizziness; and that having risen again he was wounded with a dart through the corselet in the chest.

  • She was distinguished for her beauty and accomplishments, having received a Grecian education.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    feared lest; having already; having been the first; having charge; having faith; having finished; having found; having gone; having heard; having listened; having lived; having many; having married; having read; having regard; having returned; having seven heads and ten horns; having taken; having them; having three; having written; previously described; rarely more; thou gavest; unto thee; would perhaps