Example sentences of "have [adv] had a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 He 'd never had a passport anyway .
2 Now we 'd never had a problem before with high conductivity .
3 Anyone 'd think I 'd never had a baby before . ’
4 I 'd never had a lover before , I have no comparison , ’ she said shortly .
5 We 've just had a golf course defined as a strategic issue and I think that in a way goes goes goes to the heart of what this is what this is all about .
6 She 'd say they 've just had a restaurant there , that would n't be so bad as a take away But getting back to the finances , I mean the Two Hundred Club over the years it has been in operation , I mean with what it gets this , what they get this year , supposing it 's not a thousand , supposing eight hundred , it might even be about eight thousand might n't it ?
7 So I said well it 's only when you 've just had a baby like , you know , like cows .
8 Yes , I 've got my cat , it 's just gone out , yeah I 've got a cat , yes he 's a lovely little cat I 've got and he 's just gone out a little ginger and but I did have a dog but I , cos he , I had him several years here a beautiful little corgi he was and then I had to have him put to sleep because he had er water trouble , but then my doctor advised me that I , he said do n't have another dog have a cat , so I had a cat , I 've always had a cat though
9 It was as if no one had ever had a son before .
10 " I 've never had a cat before , " she said .
11 ‘ You 've never had a case before ? ’
12 So er can people come along and have a go if they 've never had a go before ?
13 I 've never had a secret before . ’
14 Cos I 've never had a mole there .
15 Erm , because th , I 've never had a group anywhere , not just at Tarmac , where people get it completely right first time .
16 Nor are women prominent in senior positions in the professions although they have long had a place there in those areas concerned with women 's affairs which are most clearly associated with their assumed ‘ natural ’ role of caring for and serving others .
17 George have just had a cuss outside .
18 David Lawrence is certainly having a lot of work to do in the field as well as bowl , runs a long way , that 's to be better at deep back with square leg , in place of Philip DeFreitas and let Daffy do some running about , he 's just had a drink there .
19 and they come in and have a coffee , that 's it , good boy , and erm , er , so , I , I said well I 'm gon na have to go I 'm going over to me daughter 's she 's just had a baby so
20 But he 's er , he 's just had a Weetabix actually Elaine .
21 Some women who have always had a career only get to think about the need for closer relationships after that finishes .
22 Erm well she 's she 's a grant because she 's never had a grant before .
23 He 's never had a gun before , he just flipped . ’
24 But I have never had a disaster over 14 years and several classes per year !
25 ‘ We have never had a lead as good as this , ’ said Sgt Bert Norburn , the man co-ordinating the British hunt .
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