Example sentences of "[adv] had have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Certainly there was every need for a road-widening scheme : four years earlier , in the October of 1793 , poor old Parson Woodforde had nearly come a nasty cropper on Frome Hill , when the chaise he was in had had an unfortunate encounter with a large ‘ heavily loaden ’ London waggon , complete with eight horses : |
2 | If you were asked which club it was , you just had to have a good reason for choosing it . |
3 | James Sandoe , a fine American critic of crime fiction , once said of the typical private-eye that , although there was no specific reason for it , somehow he always had to have a shabby office with " shabby restaurant nearby serving leaden eggs and greasy bacon " . |
4 | The fourth John Booth founded another major firm in partnership with John Hartop and George Binks , whose own families also had had a long involvement in the local metal trades . |
5 | It would n't do just to have straight furrows : a good ploughman also had to have a good top to the stetch — the furrows lying all flat and even . |
6 | All the talk after the game is about Gascoigne , but he really had had a marvellous match had n't he ? |
7 | The glass must have held nearly half a pint and I thought I too had had a splendid day out . |