Example sentences of "have had [adv] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has had over a dozen matches and scored only two goals , so perhaps as Joo said its time for the subs bench ( remember Le Tissier on sunday ) . |
| 2 | Thanks to the vagaries of international politics , Ethiopia has had only a tiny slice of this aid cake . |
| 3 | Although Adrian is the Olympic champion , we both held the world record and Adrian has had perhaps a four year head start on myself . |
| 4 | The kind of boat fishing at sea that I 've always done has had quite a few fathoms below the boat , but here the water was clear and only a few feet deep , we were certainly less than one hundred yards offshore . |
| 5 | Er but I used to tell people and they you know people near me that had a lot of children and er they 'd moan and groan about it , I heard one woman say erm , she 'd had quite a few children and I I 'd been in hospital and I said er , er a certain person that 'd had a baby had lost it . |
| 6 | having had rather a nasty shock when I had the car serviced the other day . |
| 7 | Why could n't she have had just a small taste of the honeyed delight that Rourke 's love would have brought , just a fragment of the glowing ember that would have warmed her inside , instead of this cold , bitter emptiness ? |
| 8 | ‘ people who knew him very well must have had quite a hard time with him , he was so depressed . |
| 9 | Mr le Gros , who sang a serenade filled with double entendres to his fickle mistress in the Ballet des plaisirs , must have had quite a high voice since he was normally assigned parts notated in either alto clef ( C3 , the usual clef for the high tenor voice known as the haute-contre ) |
| 10 | The relaxation of advertising regulations , initially in 1979–80 , and more fully in 1987 , seems to have had only a limited impact on the profession . |
| 11 | While the Odiham Society has earned and received its fair share of credit , it must be concluded that this modest proposal , so long in incubation , was likely even if put into effect , to have had only a marginal impact on the situation it was meant to remedy — as the society soon realised . |
| 12 | This factor … should make the court the more cautious before holding that the defendant had had both a factual possession and animus possidendi sufficient to confer on him a possessory title … |
| 13 | After his death Margaret had had only a widowed mother 's pension to support Dickie and herself . |
| 14 | At the meeting re-convened to pass the accounts , the members were given a thorough , and far-reaching report , which included the recommendation to spend ‘ less excessively ’ on the clubhouse , but more on the course , and to raise the wages of some staff who had had only a meagre 15s. 0d. a week for years . |
| 15 | Hayling 's dummy had been a marathon performance over months , whilst Sutton had had only a short time and few people . |
| 16 | For Anna , pregnant at eighteen ) her stretch marks had had quite a devastating effect on her by the time she was eight months pregnant . |
| 17 | They 're beautiful if you 're walking across the Downs and admiring the trees or the open countryside , but erm there are times , and we 've had just a recent spell with easterly winds , and we find with an easterly wind along the south coast , because of the Downs , and because of the , the Dover Straits , these easterly winds tend to erm funnel , as we call it , and therefore they are stronger than they would normally be expected to be , so Brighton does have its disadvantages in , from that point of view , but from the sunshine and the general point of view erm it takes a lot to beat the area . |
| 18 | I 've had rather a surprising piece of news , that 's all . ’ |
| 19 | I 've had rather a hard day — well , I 'm sure you can imagine . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I understand you 've had only a boiled egg this morning , ’ she said meaningfully , then returning her attention to the maid , ordered , ‘ Make that tea for two , Margaret . |
| 21 | You 've had about a hundred people come to you , are you looking for damages ? |
| 22 | but they 've had quite a good dinnertime today so I think they 're letting her stop a bit longer . |
| 23 | We 've had quite a busy afternoon , Mr Andropulos , and at the moment we 're anchored over a plane that crashed into the sea just about the time we were receiving your SOS . ’ |
| 24 | It 's quite interesting that where you think you 've you 've rung say , Freda or Amber in the evening and you 've had quite a lengthy conversation in , mentally you think that |
| 25 | I 've I 've had quite a few nicknames . |
| 26 | I 've had quite a few patients . |
| 27 | In attempting to weight the relative importance of these individual variables some observers , despite the countervailing evidence , would maintain that on a world-wide basis economic forces have had only a limited influence in shaping bargaining structures ( Beaumont et al . , |
| 28 | Most people discharged from hospital psychiatric care have had only a short period as in patients and do not need long-term help after leaving . |
| 29 | With the addition of the large numbers of children and teenagers who have had only a few years of schooling , rates of illiteracy of well over 50 per cent seem entirely credible ( see Chapter 16 ) . |
| 30 | She sweetly punctuated every pause with ‘ Actually , we have had quite a few calls saying the same thing , ’ and ‘ Actually , I must say , I do rather agree with you . ’ |