Example sentences of "[pron] had [adv] have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I was what I felt unconsciously I had never had a chance to be : a little girl . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She had also had a pot plant on the chest called David . |
| 6 | You would never have believed that she had ever had a problem in that area . |
| 7 | She was blonde , like his Mandy , except unlike Mandy she had never had a chance in life . |
| 8 | She did not tell them she had never had a job , had been supported by a husband she had left . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | All except Marie , who had just had a baby ; and my brother and Roddy McDowall . |
| 11 | She was going to Birmingham to stay with her sister who had just had a baby girl . |
| 12 | Suzanne , my wife , who had just had a baby , drove three hours twice a day to see me . |
| 13 | The young women had come downstairs and Dad , who had already had a skinful , addressed Molly in a jovial manner . |
| 14 | Since his arrest in England , he had married a 16 year old girl who was pregnant by him and who had now had a child . |
| 15 | Harriet , who had hardly had a day 's illness in her life — unless she counted a bad attack of shingles some years previously — had at first been inclined to ignore her husband 's remarks . |
| 16 | Or it might be that she would have to barricade the windows against the revenants , against all the figures from the history books who had once had a lease on life and property and wanted their rights back . |
| 17 | Particularly if you had just had a row with your wife , and rather suspected that you were in the wrong . |
| 18 | ‘ You had better have a word with my husband , ’ Mrs Smith said , and indicated that they should go through into the drawing-room . |
| 19 | It was as if no one had ever had a son before . |
| 20 | And er we had a plan for to build a building with er dressing accommodation and er this was gon na cost seven thousand pound when we could n't face it , we thought that there were far more important things to deal with than that when we had housing , we had just had a housing report which said that two thousand houses in the town were not up to the modern standard . |
| 21 | On average , we met for three hours every ten days , constantly revising , exchanging and criticising so that in the end we had both had a hand in everything . |
| 22 | A successful street collection in Neston raised £154.73 for the society and they had also had a membership drive with the Heartbeat Campaign on the last weekend of October . |
| 23 | How can anyone be so arrogant as to talk about this Creature , this Thing , as if they knew It , as if they had just had a letter from It or had chatted to It over the phone , when the It can not be conceived , understood , described , or even proved to exist . |
| 24 | When I last spoke to the Otter Trust they had never had a complaint against a canoeist but many against anglers . |
| 25 | France was devastated and er they had always had a lace trade but we found in after years , this is a point that should n't be missed , that destruction by the Germans and the replacing under reparations , I understood the money came from , anyway the firm worked day and night for years , er left Nottingham the lace centre with the old pre-war machines and France and areas , including Italy , er with the modern machines . |
| 26 | I could see at once that they had all had a skinful . |
| 27 | He had previously had a cholecystectomy and appendicectomy . |
| 28 | As we approached the river , the Trent , which had a bathing-place in the grounds , he mentioned that he had already had a dip and recommended it . |
| 29 | Despite his consummate low-flying ability he had already had a brush with some trees and had also once even grazed the ground in a Mosquito . |
| 30 | At thirty-one , he remarks to Louise — a parenthesis to a hypothesis — that if he had ever had a son , he would have taken great pleasure in procuring women for him . |