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

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1 I just happened to have a photograph .
2 I could not re I did n't go , I er , I just wanted to have a look at them but I , I could n't resist it .
3 I once had to have a leg replaced when a couple of Hunters tore mine off .
4 Such a simple idea , I always thought to have a wall of panelled doors that folded back .
5 " I always wanted to have a child , " said a nineteen-year-old woman living on a Sunderland housing estate with her parents .
6 CATHERINE No , I would like to have been , I always wanted to have a child but I never did .
7 I really came to have a word with Charles Julian .
8 I really enjoyed having a tutor and I learned more than if I 'd been at school .
9 I rudely announced to my wife Claudia that I simply had to have a baby by the time I was 35 .
10 I simply had to have a break .
11 I then had to have a hysterectomy .
12 I then decided to have a work-out on the weights .
13 I never intended to have a relationship with you .
14 Caught by the uplift of hot air from the fluorescent tubes , all the smoke was drawn into the hood and onto the water 's surface , which just happened to have a protein skimmer waiting to mix it into solution .
15 Would it have been a good tactic to try and exploit adult hostility towards this group on account of their delinquent activities , rather than highlight their racist involvements which clearly did have a measure of adult support ?
16 You just wanted to have a change ?
17 She just wanted to have a look .
18 A girl who wore her long dark hair loose , who practically lived in jeans and sweatshirts , and who always seemed to have a couple of paint stains on her somewhere because she was trying to scrape a living by producing exquisitely detailed illustrations for books .
19 For not only would the developers — who always did have a reputation as sharp dressers — be examples of sartorial elegance but the traditionally staid chartered surveyors would also have swapped their green-check jackets and corduroy trousers for double-breasted suits , red braces and ties that were more of a ‘ statement ’ than a fashion accessory .
20 She also wanted to have a Sunday dinner , whenever possible , in the style of Willis , who followed the bargemen 's custom of serving first sultana pudding with gravy , and then the roast .
21 A pity she really did have a cold on the morning she woke up and used her inhaler , the morning after I 'd taken it out of her hand-bag and added my little cocktail .
22 Is it true that you really did have a nightmare time in your early life , with all the operations on your foot ?
23 Did that mean she actually did have a choice , that he 'd given up the idea of evicting her ?
24 She too had had a call this day , and finally had told Mr Blaney in the shop that she was going , that she was unwell , could not go on .
25 This woman was 37 years old , and she too had had a lumpectomy and radiotherapy four years earlier .
26 And he always had a pot of linseed and black Spanish , and we always had to have a drink of this , cos he thought it was fantastic .
27 ‘ I would hate it to go down in Conservative mythology that we always had to have a gaggle of young men running every campaign , ’ he said , ‘ although if we had the same bunch at the next election at least they 'd be a few years older . ’
28 Off camera , we always seemed to have a laugh .
29 Kathleen and I went off for some lunch and we then went to have a look at the castle .
30 At that point , once the letter is finalised , we then did have a meeting with two members , the Chairman of this Committee that 'll be Councillor Park , to just go through it , and that happened on Monday morning of this week .
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