Example sentences of "[noun] had [adv] have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Youth Club The club had recently had a trip to Beecraigs for a barbecue with Corstorphine Youth Club . |
| 2 | Youth Club The club had recently had a trip to Beecraigs for a barbecue with Corstorphine Youth Club . |
| 3 | The last revellers had finally been seen off at nine in the morning ; they and Margot had done some cleaning up before going to bed , though Ken had anyway had a couple of hours ' sleep between three and five , when he 'd fallen into a deep slumber on the wicker couch in the conservatory . |
| 4 | Lissa had n't had a photograph for me to flash , but had described him as looking ‘ a lot like you , Mr Quick , a lot like you ’ . |
| 5 | At the time of going to press , Sir Anthony had already had a series of strategy discussions with chief executive Dr Brian Eyre , as well as meetings with the DTI 's privatisation advisers , investment bankers Barclays De Zoete Wedd , and our own advisers , management consultants McKinseys and merchant bankers Lazard Brothers . |
| 6 | Once Dolly and Gertrude had been in the back row of the chorus at the Palladium , and Gertrude had even had a solo spot with a comic song … he had seen a photo of her somewhere as Burlington Bertie … |
| 7 | This country was bankrupt , and had to borrow money from the United States of America to keep going , and er , Russia had just had a revolution and was still in chaos . |
| 8 | Angel had never had a lesson ; he played as naturally as he walked . |
| 9 | Mr Smith said it was ‘ appalling ’ that many 18- to 24-year-olds had never had a job . |
| 10 | Though from the way she remembered it , she had been so eager to be his that shyness had n't had a look in ! |
| 11 | But back at WHS headquarters , Sir Malcolm seemed unperturbed by the commentaries , pointing out that the group had not had a reduction in profits for ‘ many , many years ’ . |
| 12 | Already evidence exists of underprovision of respite care : one recent study reported that a quarter of carers had not had a holiday for more than five years , and another found that 40% of carers could not take a break when they wanted . |
| 13 | His solicitor said Porter 's common law wife had just had a miscarriage . |
| 14 | But the UK had never had a product like this and they needed it , ’ says John Bartic , visiting professor at Strathclyde University and joint chief executive of Bartle Bogle Hegarty ( BBH ) , the agency appointed to handle the launch and subsequent roll-out . |
| 15 | On the 1st of January " in that year Sir Daniel had also had a letter from a Robert Tolson about the leasing of his copper mines . |
| 16 | The doctor did not tell the family that Esther had probably had a stroke , for fear of alarming them . |
| 17 | Emily had never had a head for figures , and her brother-in-law , Marcus Judge , had kept an eye on her finances from the beginning , gradually acquiring a controlling interest in the business . |
| 18 | If Quigley had ever had a chance of regaining his grip on the First Spiritualist Church of South Wimbledon , he had lost all hope of it now . |
| 19 | Chris 's sister-in-law loved the baby and when he died she was so upset she told Chris that little Tommy had never had a chance . |
| 20 | Joanna Lumley had always had a passion , as she put it , for Dirk Bogarde ; Dustin Hoffman was a fan of Sting ; John Lennon had been a great Monty Python fan , and so Yoko was delighted to meet John Cleese . |
| 21 | The Western world had already had a foretaste of this combination of factors following the price increases in the wake both of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war and of the Iran revolution itself in 1978–79 . |
| 22 | In fact , she reminded herself , since they had been children Mandy had always had a knack for getting her sombre cousin , normally something of a goody-two-shoes , into a great deal of trouble . |
| 23 | He said , nearly 40pc ( 518 ) of young people on the dole in Darlington had not had a job for over half a year and one sixth ( 217 ) had not worked for over a year . |
| 24 | Miss Karen Gilroy , organiser of the Northallerton CT Scanner Appeal launched in October 1990 , said she was ‘ disappointed ’ the Friarage Hospital had not had a share of the health department package . |
| 25 | The Beans had never had a family doctor . |
| 26 | Prosecutor Nigel Rumfitt said : ‘ Aylaus had previously had a number of taped telephone conversations with Mr Ray Levine , a reporter with The People . |
| 27 | Harvey had always had a mania for showers and baths and he had taken to the sauna ritual with great enthusiasm . |
| 28 | But whatever the reason , whether it was that everyone had been so busy reassuring everyone that no one had bothered to talk to the crematorium , whether they had got the time wrong , or whether the vicar had simply had a brainstorm , he now , you could tell , was dimly aware that he had not given an exemplary performance . |
| 29 | Johanna had also had a tiff with her boyfriend . |
| 30 | Pamela had nearly had a heart attack when she 'd looked at this year 's brochure and seen how much it would cost . |