Example sentences of "had [verb] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though Louis had had plenty of time to gain experience of ruling and to form a court of his own in the subkingdom of Aquitaine ( he had been king there since the age of three ) , he had had to wait a long time for his father 's inheritance . |
| 2 | ‘ I have had to wait a long time for the freedom , but it will be passed down and at least I can say that I was a Freeman of Chester . |
| 3 | One of these was Lynn Bari , who has typically had to wait a few weeks after her death before receiving an obituary due her . |
| 4 | Lonrho and its shareholders , whatever the merits of their case , have had to wait an unconscionable time for the facts to be established . |
| 5 | I have had complaints from several enquirers who , not knowing our telephone extensions , have had to wait an inordinate length of time before being connected to the operator . |
| 6 | I pointed out that in practice determinist theories have always had to acknowledge a low level of predictive power for their causal variables . |
| 7 | If they had , they would have had to provide an alternative explanation of where the surface energy of a newly broken surface came from , but somehow nobody took it very seriously . |
| 8 | I have had to find a provisional title for the venture to use in my various requisitions for staff , accommodation , etc . |
| 9 | He has had to find an alternative group in Europe which will be able to hold its own against the formidable record of Eliot Gardiner 's English Baroque Soloists , and has chosen well with the Hungarian ‘ authentic ’ orchestra Capella Savaria . |
| 10 | If Shakespeare wrote a play with a cast of twenty-five , then he must have had to write a separate copy for each of the cast . |
| 11 | Basil had had to choose a minor language as part of his Classical Philology course . |
| 12 | She decided not to go back to the bank , because they would have had to create a special job for her . |
| 13 | Christie 's had secured a good selection of attractive conversation pieces and landscape paintings calculated to appeal to private collectors on a budget , as well as the more interesting portraits and equestrian compositions , while the quality of the works at Sotheby 's was particularly thin . |
| 14 | They have been spied on by the paparazzi , betrayed by trusted servants , embarrassed by indiscreet friends , and have had to endure a constant torrent of innuendo , gossip , lies and half-truths in newspapers , magazines and books — none of which are they able to repudiate . |
| 15 | ‘ We are writing to you to ask for your support in our battle for men , ’ ‘ For too long now , we have had to endure an overly-sensitive onslaught from the feminists . |
| 16 | Glad she had avoided meeting Mrs Farraday ( nee Corbett ) , whom she imagined as some Gorgon straight from the pages of George Eliot , Penny swung down the drive , wishing she had not had to assume a double load of exercise books to avoid her . |
| 17 | The company has already had to win a hard-fought battle with Telecom to get access to international telephone lines — a must for the type of customers it hopes to attract . |
| 18 | The pub has always had to tread a difficult tightrope in reconciling its social function , as a ‘ house ’ for the public , with its commercial function as a retail shop . |
| 19 | For those Celtic supporters who have had to tread a thin line between desperation and devastation this season , there was no inclination to do anything other than wallow in it being their team who had put an end to Rangers long , unbeaten run . |
| 20 | Mrs Postance 's opposite number at the Haywards primary school at the other end of town , Mike Palmer , talks of ‘ tooling up ’ for the undertaking : ‘ I 've had to use a large slice of my in-service training budget to release staff during the school day for quite substantial periods to match up their plans for the following year . |
| 21 | Sorry you 've had to send a new Governor after all . |
| 22 | The old erm violence in society was dealt with largely with the Public Order Act of nineteen thirty-six , but recently we 've had introduced a new Act through Parliament . |
| 23 | It has also had to keep an undisclosed number of doubtful loans before offloading the unit , Kleinwort Benson Australia , to the California-based bank Security Pacific . |
| 24 | His voice was harsh and nasal , as if it had had to fight a stiff battle around the bridge of his nose before it had been able to emerge at all . |
| 25 | In his only digression from prepared remarks , Francisco Rodriguez said : ‘ The government today has had to control a new attempt at subversion frustrated by the will of our people and of our armed forces to wage struggle . ’ |
| 26 | Over here the ball turns and our batsmen have had to learn a new technique in five weeks . |
| 27 | this is the story of my life now in the bathroom I have had , I have had to pay a hundred pounds to Mr Butcher the plumber to put in a new shower thing because that was cheap and rough and eventually wore out should never have been put in . |
| 28 | My constituents have had to pay an additional £44.75 per adult because of that incompetence , and that is a disgrace . |
| 29 | But they have had to overcome a surprising amount of resistance to the idea that nurses should be involved in research , chiefly from within the nursing profession itself . |
| 30 | On more than one occasion he had had to remove a dead dog from the highway and take it in his barrow to the incinerator , and there were times when he had to take the place of a night watchman who had been taken ill on one of the larger roadworks and stay there until he could be relieved . |