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

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1 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 .
2 ‘ I 'd had one drink but I would have taken the same stand if I had n't had a drink at all .
3 I had n't had a benny for a few days actually
4 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 .
5 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 …
6 I had n't had a shot in minutes .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 . ’
10 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 .
11 I was what I felt unconsciously I had never had a chance to be : a little girl .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 Yesterday she had n't had a chance to look properly .
15 ‘ She said she had n't had a drink in 10 days .
16 She had n't had a headache today , in spite of the thundery heat .
17 She had not had a chance to mention it to Charlotte Hanover before their … their contretemps of the other night , and assumed that he would have the decency to realize that she would not , in any case , want him to accompany her now .
18 She had also had a pot plant on the chest called David .
19 You would never have believed that she had ever had a problem in that area .
20 She was blonde , like his Mandy , except unlike Mandy she had never had a chance in life .
21 She did not tell them she had never had a job , had been supported by a husband she had left .
22 But Miss Blagden , whom I met by chance yesterday , is going to Rome and when I told her the absurdity of your request she volunteered to carry your ridiculous weapon saying she had always had a fancy to be a gun-runner and that it would be a tale to tell her friends and astonish them .
23 All except Marie , who had just had a baby ; and my brother and Roddy McDowall .
24 She was going to Birmingham to stay with her sister who had just had a baby girl .
25 Suzanne , my wife , who had just had a baby , drove three hours twice a day to see me .
26 Harrogate were 9–0 down against their first round who had not had a try scored against them since October .
27 Harrogate were 9–0 down against their first round who had not had a try scored against them since October .
28 The average age of menopause in those who had not had a hysterectomy was 48 years ( range 42 to 59 ) and they were 5 years ( mean ; range 1 to 18 ) postmenopausal at the time of the study .
29 Thirty seven who had not had a hysterectomy were given cyclic progestogen with 150 micrograms of norgestrel for 12 days each month in addition to 0.625 mg of conjugated oestrogen ( Prempak C 0.625 , Wyeth ) .
30 The young women had come downstairs and Dad , who had already had a skinful , addressed Molly in a jovial manner .
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