Example sentences of "[pron] had [adv] have [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had rather have the certainties of middle-age , ma'am . ’ |
| 2 | She insisted on having wine with the meal , and as I had n't had a drink in a long time , it made me feel rather tipsy . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd had one drink but I would have taken the same stand if I had n't had a drink at all . |
| 4 | I had n't had a benny for a few days actually |
| 5 | I had n't had a lot of luck finding the man I wanted , but at least I 'd been getting up to date on my social exercises , like who was drinking with who , and in what bars . |
| 6 | I married Clive because Mummy told me he was suitable for me , and I had n't had a letter from Felipe for a long time … |
| 7 | I had n't had a shot in minutes . |
| 8 | I wondered why I had n't had the wit to take the starveling cat to Mother Joseph as soon as I knew that Nour might kill it . |
| 9 | ‘ I would n't have offered to help if I had n't had the experience necessary . |
| 10 | Cos I had n't had the gang then do you see , there was only two of us then . |
| 11 | It was looking a mess because I had n't had the heart to tidy it ; the sky outside had a yellow-grey sameness , without a hint of where the sun might be , and in that light the flowers on the dirty brown wallpaper looked sadder than ever . |
| 12 | I slumped to my knees , burdened by the hopeless regret that I had n't had the chance to do this just a bit sooner . |
| 13 | If I had n't had the golf-bag on my shoulder , I would have taken off with the umbrella . |
| 14 | Well , I 've never even seen a dead body before — imagine , what with the bones , the shroud and the flies ; if I had n't had the camera between me and it , I do n't think I could have looked . |
| 15 | It was a reasonably clear evening and since I had already had a couple of glasses of champagne I decided to cycle over to Sally 's flat in Fulham . |
| 16 | The first time I went to prison I had already had the baby , but he was taken away from me in hospital . |
| 17 | I have to confess that I saved up for a portable television before I saved up for a washing machine , but then my priorities may have been different if I had not had a laundrette opposite the front door . |
| 18 | But I had not had a winner since December 27 when Mr Entertainer won at Kempton Park , and many of my horses had been sick . ’ |
| 19 | If I had not had a sensation which resembles my present sensation I could not assert , ‘ My sensation is a sensation of white ’ with the same meaning as it would have if I had had a sensation resembling it . |
| 20 | I had not had the benefit of that lovely electricity for long , but how I did miss it when it absented itself . |
| 21 | If I had not had the support of Project 81 members , the head of care at Le Court and other friends , I do not think I could have survived . |
| 22 | I was what I felt unconsciously I had never had a chance to be : a little girl . |
| 23 | Although Fair Isle is officially part of Shetland , and I had been a keen birdwatcher since I was a boy , I had never had the opportunity to visit the island until I had started to work for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . |
| 24 | I had always had the sense of a ‘ presence ’ . |
| 25 | As one recently retired 62-year-old put it : ‘ I had hardly had a chance to enjoy a couple of days pottering in the garden for the first time in years , when my wife was nagging me to go out and find something to do . |
| 26 | While I wondered about his motives , he stoked up his contempt for the whole Jewish race , which had not had the decency to get itself wiped out , as rumoured . |
| 27 | The anonymous writer of 1497 said that apart from London there were only two towns of importance in the country , Bristol and York , but in this he was misinformed , as it seems likely that Norwich , which had undoubtedly had a period of difficulties in the early fifteenth century , had begun to recover about 1465 or 1470 , and was on the way to becoming the second wealthiest city in the land , as it was in the 1520s . |
| 28 | Yesterday she had n't had a chance to look properly . |
| 29 | ‘ She said she had n't had a drink in 10 days . |
| 30 | She had n't had a headache today , in spite of the thundery heat . |