Sentence examples for Having bent from inspiring English sources

Having bent over backward for the audience in those ways, however, Wheeldon made no further concessions.

Weeks later, after having bent a few rules, and to his immense satisfaction, he began flying again with his old reconnaissance squadron.

In 2009 and then again in 2013, having bent over backwards to impress and convince the IOC, us squash players were snubbed for the Games.

This found that some 56% of graduate business students in America admit to having bent the rules, a higher share of cheats than in any other group of students.

And that in turn is why many people fear that, having bent over backwards to limbo under the Maastricht bars, Italy may yet return to its habitual posture of happy-go-lucky indiscipline.Of course, were Italy to reform its electoral laws and its constitution, as Mr Prodi and many others would like, people like Mr Bertinotti would be shorn of most of their power.

But having bent the rules to allow France and Germany to run big deficits, it would look odd if a country that had made a big effort to obey them was punished.The evening finishes with a 50th birthday party for Mart Laar, twice prime minister and a big reason for Estonia's reputation for radical economic reform.

I've bent over backward".

Some must have bent over backward.

We have bent over backwards".

We have bent low to Washington.

"She has bent over backward," he said.