Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] have have [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The times I have lost all the stitches and the times I 've had the wrong rows one side of the neck !
2 For the past three months I 've had an irritating itch in my lower pubic region .
3 Through the worst of the winter they have had no proper play area ; the old school building is deteriorating at a rapid rate and they have also had to find room to store the furniture for the new school which has already been delivered .
4 Members are also reminded that from 1 January they have to have a practising certificate .
5 Twenty four hours before admission she had had a transitional mole removed from her back under local anaesthesia in the outpatient department .
6 Now of course she 's had a tremendous effect on , on fashion knitwear ever since she 's been involved with before .
7 For plotting a course you had to have an accurate speedometer .
8 Anyway , since those days I 've had a marked preference for small frail soft-spoken dentists like Mr Grover .
9 Similarly , similarly I have prepared all this but just shortly before the meeting I have had a whole wodge of suggestion forms going back to November which I have obviously not taken into account yet . .
10 For some years I had had a similar experience in the teaching of literature , amazed to see colleagues attempting to hound students , in the context of a two- or three-year course , through complex texts in a single session : today we read King Lear , tomorrow we discuss it , and next day you write your essays on it .
11 Colleagues , I know that people are starting to move out , and I 'm sure that it 's got nothing to do with Mick 's appearance at the rostrum , but colleagues seriously , seriously for the last couple of days we 've had a great deal of disciplines so please try and be as quiet as possible .
12 So you could say for exactly a hundred years we 've had a basic law designed to give us rights every time we go shopping .
13 ‘ Over the last five years we have had a quiet revolution in vocational education in Scotland , and today we should celebrate that .
14 The bishop 's hobbies include reading and walking and since his student days he has had a great interest in church and choral music .
15 down and worked out how many days he 's had the long wheelbase this week .
16 Joe , who was an outstanding goalkeeper in the Irish League and had a spell of management with Ards , has been looking after Ireland 's senior badminton players since the 1978 European championships in Preston and over the years he has had an excellent working relationship with the players , motivating them and looking after their fitness .
17 Well , at certain times we have had a large number of Bengali patients .
18 ‘ Well , I would say that after a rotten beginning I 've had a good life — That 's not very helpful , is it ? ’
19 With Pluto in Scorpio you have had an uneasy feeling that someone was plotting against you .
20 Well it 's , it 's more like more or less just like today , you know , if you , if you 've got nowhere to go and they just put you there , but I mean now you ca n't get in very good can you really , not now , but erm , Pat since she 's been on duty she 's had a terrible trial , terrible she had to get one , help in this morning , get one of the floor next door , then we 've had trouble one down further , but she 's been put into erm Ashlyn now for five weeks , so she 's out the way for a little while we 've had an awful worrying time here though , it 's absolutely been a pantomime cos this has just keeps er throwing herself on the floor , all the time she 's doing it
21 Since the end of hostilities he had had a permanent roof over his head , but no other aspect of his life had improved radically , whereas I had been passed from a doting father to a doting husband .
22 In the event he had to have a below-the-knee amputation .
23 ‘ To be good at the game you have to have a reasonable level of intelligence , ’ said Cathy Williams , a teacher from the Percy Hedley School in Newcastle which caters for children with cerebral palsy .
24 ‘ To be a manager you have to have a strong personality , and I 'm not really like that unless I 've had 23 pints .
25 In Western Australia we have had the corporatist experiment .
26 In all the cases they 'd had a violent experience in earlier childhood .
27 For the survival of a society you have to have a certain number at one extreme and , therefore , a certain number at the other extreme , for without cowards there are no VCs .
28 All her life she had had a clear vision of who she was and where she was going .
29 A spokesman for Sarova Hotels said : ‘ In the past we have had a satisfactory working relationship with BCCI and the current situation has not presented problems . ’
30 How he had intended that they should live with her for a while , and how his mother had a grudge against Bridget , and the terrible row they had had the previous night , and how they did n't know where they were going to live .
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