Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [pron] [verb] had a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We all know there 's no more sorry sight in the world than a lady who 's had a drop too much , but a spoonful or so can be highly medicinal . |
| 2 | As a child she had had a piggy bank ; she could recall the physical satisfaction of its jingling weight in her hands . |
| 3 | He discovered that as a girl she had had a passion for Stendhal , so had he , and they talked about Julien Sorel and Tolstoi and Rimbaud . |
| 4 | I mentioned a boy who had only been at school for two terms , a boy who had had a limp , someone he had been friendly with for a time . |
| 5 | ‘ Ever since he was a boy he has had a fear of them . |
| 6 | You never have to tell a person who 's had a heart attack , you never need to tell a woman when her husband has a stroke , I have to . |
| 7 | I have a friend who has had a miserable marriage , because his wife has never given him her trust . |
| 8 | ‘ In fact , a peculiarity about this condition is that it seldom if ever occurs in a woman who 's had a baby . ’ |
| 9 | He was relatively cheerful and uncomplaining for a man who had had a 40 minute operation to join his fractured kneecap and a severed tendon together again . |
| 10 | A man who has had a lot of success in a relatively short space of time — he has been training 15 years — Homer Scott has already had a Liverpool winner . |
| 11 | Suddenly angry , Seb said , ‘ You 'd refuse to serve a man who 's had a university education , is respected by everyone he 's met and whose father is acquainted with the Duke of Marlborough . |
| 12 | A man who 's had a smiling face painted on his satellite dish has been told he 's got to cover it up . |