Example sentences of "had [noun sg] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Some teachers may specialize in certain sports , while others may have had experience of a particular instrument , such as the flute or violin , and therefore may have had similar problems as yourself .
2 In Robbe-Grillet 's Pour un nouveau roman ( 1963 ) and Nathalie Sarraute 's L'ère du soupçon ( 1965 ) , Michel Butor 's essays and Claude Simon 's conference papers , articles and interviews , all of these writers have had recourse to a modernist canon as part of an impetus of literary self-justification .
3 Aids dementia is more common in those who have had AIDS for a long time , and in some instances the dementia is probably due to other organisms attacking the brain .
4 It is addressed to some learned woman of a higher station who appears to be a new acquaintance ; it is therefore possible that Leapor had had correspondence with a literary woman in London who arranged for the poem 's publication .
5 Captain Burrows had never had charge of a sophisticated corps .
6 I do n't mind saveloy , I have n't had saveloy for a long while .
7 Further , representatives of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board have had access to a large quantity of files in [ that state ] and copies of certain of them which have been returned to London , and among these files is documentation concerning the affairs of your clients .
8 For the last two years , local residents have had access to a pioneering service run by the area 's Health Help for All Project .
9 With a grand gesture of deliberately deflated gallantry , Lucker pulls on his damp swimming costume which he has had breeding in a sour plastic bag since his last swim a few days before .
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