Example sentences of "have had a [adj] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This question too has had a long history though it is only quite recently that it has become a precisely defined issue of zoological theory . |
| 2 | The professor said : ‘ Judith has had a worse time than David because all of this is not of her making . |
| 3 | Thought will have to be given now to players discouraged previously , including Ramprakash , who has had a raw deal while Hick has been favoured , and the hapless Fairbrother , for whom critics always seek reasons for non-selection . |
| 4 | Although she has had a few boyfriends since , there is no one special around . |
| 5 | I became even more thankful that I 'd had a normal birth as it would have been so hard to cope after a repeat section . |
| 6 | He 'd had a real pimple when he arrived , but during the time he took to find and bribe an official to provide the documents , the blemish had healed , . |
| 7 | Marius had a history of heart trouble — you say he 'd had a minor attack before you went to France in the summer . |
| 8 | We 'd had a little car before he got there . |
| 9 | ‘ Alex Bannen would 've had a screaming fit if we 'd left you to mess up his precious Bridge ; God alone knows what Tiw would 've done . ’ |
| 10 | He and Whelan would have had a better chance if they had come along the floor more often , even despite the permanent ten-man claret and blue wall . |
| 11 | Beverley Lewis , a disabled woman who died in her mother 's home in Gloucester three years ago might have had a better chance if the city and not the county controlled it 's own social services . |
| 12 | Clearly each player so honoured brings his own style and personality to the job and we could n't have had a better example than from David Sole . |
| 13 | The Latics could n't have had a better boost than Saturday 's four-goal demolition of Middlesbrough and Royle said : ‘ That was our best show this season . |
| 14 | Her publications list appears to consist of only two papers , but she may have had a greater influence than this suggests ( J. White , personal communication ) . |
| 15 | Some of Bach 's melodies , however , are so freely formed that it is impossible to decide whether , like the above Sarabande , they could have had a simple outline as their origin , or whether Bach followed a free vein of inspiration , ignoring a well-defined construction . |
| 16 | The dazed expression had almost left her face and I wondered if she might not have had a slight stroke when Celia abandoned her , and was now recovering . |
| 17 | And Wolves should have had a second penalty after Regis had apparently set up Kelly but Sandford 's challenge went unnoticed by Mr Harrison , Stoke escaped and Wolves were denied the chance to regain the lead . |
| 18 | Mary would have had a blue fit if she had known about Ethel Ramsden 's adventure : |
| 19 | Even the more sophisticated tracts , which would have been beyond the comprehension of those on the margins of literacy and were unsuitable for reading aloud , could have had a wider impact than their style might suggest , since their purpose was to furnish people who could read them with arguments which would enable them to go away and convince others of the merits of their party 's cause . |
| 20 | Herr Hans-Eberhard Klein , the Frankfurt prosecutor who led the search , said : ‘ I am glad it is over , but I would rather have had a live Mengele than a dead one so that some of the thousands who suffered under him could have gained some little satisfaction from a trial . ’ |
| 21 | If it had n't been for him , I would have had a bad time because I hated school . ’ |
| 22 | That teacher would have had a different attitude if Nader had been around . |
| 23 | Instead , structured gestural sequences , or syntagmata as MacNeill calls them , might already have had a rudimentary grammar before they were overlaid by speech . |
| 24 | But Bowe believes Lewis should have had a harder warm-up than Dixon , who was outweighed by nearly two stone and was knocked down twice in a ten-rounder five weeks ago . |
| 25 | If she had been married to Francis , Mary might have had a harder time for he was a consummate bed player . |
| 26 | Senescent Eskimos , for example , might be thought to have had a raw deal if the stories of the banishment from the familial hearth of those unfit to hunt and fish are to be believed . |
| 27 | It would make the association feel that it had had a better hearing if it saw the Minister face to face rather than pursuing the matter in correspondence . |
| 28 | My dear Mary had had a truer idea when she called Victor ‘ The Modern Prometheus ’ . |
| 29 | Furthermore , he claims that attempts to make clerical work more routine have had a limited impact because clerical skills and qualifications have not been standardized . |
| 30 | I have had a clubbed foot since birth . |