Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] have have [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the Second World War , swings Left and Right have had a knack of coinciding on both sides of the Atlantic , with Wilson riding on the post-Kennedy-Johnson wave , Callaghan coming back with Carter , and Margaret Thatcher heralding the Reaganite counter-revolution . |
| 2 | The tigress was undoubtedly familiar with every foot of the ground , and not having had an opportunity of killing me at the rocks — and her chance of bagging me at the first hairpin bend having been spoilt by the kakar — she was probably now making her way through the dense undergrowth to try to intercept me at the second bend . |
| 3 | What appears of particular concern is that the increase in ultraviolet radiation coincides with the time when ocean surface organisms are emerging from the dark winter period and thus have had no time to adapt to the sun , let alone enhanced levels of damaging UV-B radiation . |
| 4 | I think she undoubtedly added to the intrigue erm and difficulties of her court , erm one example , she was always getting people that she approved of , getting them plum jobs , and one example was one of the governors of Oxford , the most unpopular , one Sir Arthur Aston , who was so unpopular that he got attacked on the street , and then had to have a body guard paid for the city council , and then was curvetting on his horse in front of some ladies , and fell off and broke his leg so badly that he had to have it amputated , so from then on he had a wooden leg , erm that meant he had to stop being governor , and later on in the war , a countryman was coming into Oxford , and asked the sentinel ‘ who was governor still ’ , and by that time a friend of prince Rupert 's Sir William Leg was governor , and the answer was ‘ one Leg ’ , and the countryman 's reply was ‘ pox on him , is he governor still ? ’ . |
| 5 | She had fought him off like a veritable wildcat when he 'd slung a few well-deserved insults at her , and then had had the gall to deny she had turned traitor , although her brother held his castle for Matilda , and God only knew what she , herself , had done for the Empress . |
| 6 | They might as well have had a rope round his ankle . |
| 7 | I might as well have had the game as well as the name . ’ |
| 8 | Mozart was anxious to receive another commission to write an opera ; he knew that there was a possibility that he might be asked to write one of the operas for the Naples carnival season , but as yet had had no confirmation . |