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

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1 And my Mum 's had a letter .
2 My Mum 's had a letter . ’
3 Both I and my officials have had a number of such discussions with a variety of people .
4 To the waiter , he said : ‘ My friend 's had an accident .
5 I can get more because my father does have a minicassette recorder and a stock of tapes .
6 My father did have a bike actually
7 Well actually people in my area do have a concern about this , also though I was brought up in my teens at least within a rural area and I know full well that to hold certain views even those of the majority within rural areas , are not necessarily easily expressed and I have today been told of yet another example of this being the case .
8 Throughout my life my tummy has been , as it were , my Achilles heel ; and around this same time the condition of my colon , which for the latter part of my life has had a habit of tying itself in knots , became particularly acute .
9 I will be contacting you again after [ date ] when my client has had an opportunity to consider all indicative offers received .
10 I would imagine that the er parties on my left have had a chance to read and consider these erm statements already .
11 My mother hoped to have a daughter after I was born , but for five years I was the only child .
12 She works in such haste that her words cease to have a meaning , and a mind seems to be going to waste .
13 Their statements seem to have a number of points in common : first , they tend to be expressed in inappropriate circumstances , for example , someone makes a contribution to a congress , and someone else feels compelled to make an immediate reply .
14 Inexplicably her body seemed to have a desire of its own — to go on being touched by him .
15 Between them they give their mother the support she needs since their father has had a stroke .
16 Her father had had a link with Italy .
17 In particular , they must have forgotten the acts of violence through which it came into being ; and to be a nation , its inhabitants have to have a will to be a nation .
18 If someone had the right thought , that the play did begin there at eight , then their thought did have a content that was true , but that content was not identical with the actual state of affairs .
19 This is another potentially liberating factor for the child with linguistic difficulties : her ability to draw has a value in the writing lesson .
20 No erm her Cheryl had to have a walk round in her sleep this morning cos
21 Of course her mother had had a sister — Elaine .
22 Her mother had had a fit when Carolyn admitted that she was living on social security .
23 And indeed , surfacing again at South Kensington , some atavistic instinct for the lie of the land took them directly to the street in which Louise had had an office , fifteen years or so ago , and where two or three times a year they had met for a meal .
24 At 5am the next day , doctors had awoken Mr Taylor and his wife Joanne to tell them their son had had a heart attack and suffered severe brain damage .
25 ‘ Oh yes , you people have to have a nothingth floor . ’
26 The lady with the upright hair who Gloria said had a screw loose , clattered into the bedroom holding out a steaming jug on a tray .
27 In February 1942 , Captain Oswald Benton , a welfare officer , Royal Artillery , wrote to the county treasurer on behalf of one of his soldiers whose wife had had an operation at St. Peter 's , and who had received a bill for £1.4s.0d. ( which included £1.1s.0d. for the anaesthetic fee ) :
28 Responsibility for drafting the bill and printing is borne by the Member although financial assistance is given to the first ten members and drafting assistance is given to any member whose bill appears to have a chance of becoming law .
29 He could not see where Terry Place and his killing of William Egan , nor the idea that he might have been a poisoner , fitted into all this , perhaps nowhere , but his violence seemed to have a kind of a parallel in the Essex cases , which might illuminate his own problem .
30 Ludens knew that Marcus had spent part of his childhood in London but could elicit no information about this interesting period , except that his parents had had a flat in Knightsbridge .
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