Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] have a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I had agreed to this in case I had to have a Caesarian .
2 Sun/Star readers were more likely than others to have no preference at all in 1986 ( despite voting in 1987 ) , and at the same time , those Sun/Star readers who did have a preference in 1986 were more likely than others to change it during the next year ( Table 8.16 ) .
3 By the end of six months he had had a breakdown and was asked to leave .
4 Bringing her mind back to the keys she suggested having a photograph taken so that there would be a record of them if it was ever needed .
5 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 .
6 He 'd bet twenty.dollars she 'd had a fender bender and that the car looked like a concertina .
7 As a child she had had a piggy bank ; she could recall the physical satisfaction of its jingling weight in her hands .
8 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 .
9 Labour law and order spokesman Alun Michael MP said : ‘ If every item of shopping we bought had a ticket telling us how much of its price was due to crime losses and higher insurance premiums , we would all be appalled .
10 On the way down on that stretch of road from death one to death two I call them , the roundabouts I suddenly realised if we were going to have a rehearsal we needed to have a bouquet of flowers did n't we so I leapt out of the car picked some weeds tied them up with a piece of strong so that the chap of our staff who was going to be in front of me was going to hold them during the rehearsal whilst I dashed up to play first of all the Lord Provost and then the Queen or the Lady Provost as she then was .
11 Certainly he never became an outstanding dancer , but as a performer he did have a feeling for movement and character that enabled him to make a theatrical impact in some roles not needing much technique or classical style .
12 ‘ I felt for a lot of years I did have a lot to lose , when there was only one way to go and that was down , and when things did n't go the way I wanted them to go I blamed others .
13 " I have n't liked to say anything about it , but you must have noticed , that evening you stayed to have a drink with us , that my wife was n't quite herself . "
14 The wine we drank had a trace of resin , as if the vineyard had merely been beside a pine-forest , and was nothing like the harsh turpentine-tasting rotgut I sometimes drank in the village .
15 The first body they passed had a piece of paper pinned to its blanket , Smith , Maisie .
16 Unfortunately for Cubitt he had to have a gallery but he made it far more acceptable by supporting it with pointed arches .
17 After some months of working with him it gradually emerged that although he had indeed identified his wife 's body he had had a member of the hospital staff with him at all times .
18 Just her regrets about the Rector 's wife who 'd had a miscarriage
19 By half-past twelve each day he had had a hunger pain .
20 Like Spurgeon he had worked his way up from humble beginnings — his father had been a Northumberland stone-mason — and like Spurgeon he had had a chapel built round him .
21 Nevertheless , Paisley was keen to establish a public distinction between these two roles , At an early election meeting in an Orange Hall in the Bannside constituency he arranged to have a friend ask him if Protestant Unionism was just Free Presbyterianism by another name .
22 ( Friend of woman who had had a number of strokes . )
23 During a 12 month period our laboratory investigated 10871 people who had had a course of hepatitis B vaccine .
24 They had interviewed a man from Bombay who claimed to have a degree in physics but turned out to be a defrocked dentist , and they had nearly offered a job to a man from Sri Lanka who seemed to know everything about the school apart from the fact that it was supposed to be for Muslims .
25 One mentioned her skill at communicating with patients who had had a tracheostomy and another found that she could lip-read patients when nobody else could understand them .
26 I went to the Norfolk Broads , and erm I think it was Saturday morning we went to have a look at a flat ,
27 After we had rescued these people we decided to have a look at some other floods .
28 The only people what did have a motor in that , at that particular time was the harbourmaster of Pinn Mill cos they always used to call er er er one bloke down there who used to moor the ships up at Bottoman 's Bay and er th th th he used to get a retainer from the Ipswich Dock Commission and all he w all he had to do was make sure that was clear of , for shipping , if there was a yacht in the way he 'd go and tell them to move and he was what the we used to call him Pinn Mill Harbourmaster .
29 She was damned if she would be put through a third degree by this raving lunatic who seemed to have a fixation about someone called Lotta .
30 The Princess had said she particularly wanted to meet mothers who had had a treatment known as chorionic villus biopsy , which was a very exciting breakthrough .
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