Example sentences of "you [vb mod] have had a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that end you ought to have had a firm , if not wholly clear idea of from the earliest thought you gave to your story . |
| 2 | Or ‘ In the old days you had no government but you collected taxes from passers-by : you must have had a treasury ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You must have had a reason . ’ |
| 4 | So assuming it was n't bad manners or simply an oversight , you must have had a reason . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You must have had a reason . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought you must have had an accident — I even checked out the hospitals this morning . ’ |
| 7 | Yeah , and I said erm , and I said that were n't , if that was n't enough I said bearing in mind he 'd just come out of intensive care off a life support machine , I said and which I think that , that tells us that he needs a bit of extra care compared to some of them on the ward , I said I know they 're all important and I know you 're busy but I said I think you should 've had a bit of priority , he was dying , and you know he 's dying , you 'd been told , she said yes that 's right , I said but what really broke my bloody heart was from one o'clock that dinner time he sat in that chair , we left that hospital at half past eight and you assured us he 'd go to bed and when we came in the next morning at half past ten Joy he sat there exactly the bloody same , in the same filthy blanket and the same catheter on him , oh I went fucking mad and I said how dare you , I said because somebody 's told they 're dying does that mean they 've got to be forgot ? |
| 8 | You should 've had an Expresso coffee . |
| 9 | And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought perhaps you might have had an affair . |
| 11 | I mean , if you 'd really done it you 'd have had a story ready to tell the police once the body was discovered . ’ |
| 12 | Nine months and five days , you could 've had a baby by now . |
| 13 | He said for the money we spent here you could have had a percentage off . |
| 14 | You could have had a gap of many years since you worked . |
| 15 | You could have had a paddle like this |
| 16 | Why , you could have had a career in modelling or something … ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You could have had an abortion and nobody would have known . |
| 18 | ‘ I would have said ‘ yes ’ , and you would have had a woman who loved you ! ’ |
| 19 | It will probably have been sold to you by an insurance broker or insurance company salesman and , at time of buying , you will have had a choice of four different types of investment policy : with profits , unit linked , deposit administration and non-profit policy . |
| 20 | You will have had a bath before going along to the morning service of Chiropody , so the problem will not arise . |
| 21 | The story of your species will become a kind of Möbius strip , but at least you will have had a role in it , Dr Sigmoid . ’ |