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

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1 Well it would have been very nice if my clients had had the opportunity of a fair trial .
2 Both I and my officials have had a number of such discussions with a variety of people .
3 You will gather from that thumbnail sketch , Mr. Speaker , that my constituents have had no problem in following my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister 's recent exhortations to create a classless society .
4 She works in such haste that her words cease to have a meaning , and a mind seems to be going to waste .
5 Her parents had had the sense to realise how unhappy she was , and had made alternative arrangements .
6 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 .
7 THE catalogue of horror stories coming out of the banks ' treatment of their customers seems to have no effect on the high-handed , arrogant way they behave .
8 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 .
9 To this the Tory Party answers with obscure economic jargon which most of its members seem to have no understanding of themselves .
10 His view is that the judgements which women make have no standing .
11 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 .
12 His arguments seemed to have no effect .
13 His arguments seemed to have no effect .
14 De Gaulle and his disciples had had a view on Europe since the 1940s .
15 If only your parents 'd had the sense to let you to go in for it . ’
16 Why did our ancestors decide to have a town at the site which is now the centre of Newcastle ?
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