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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The first time I went to prison I had already had the baby , but he was taken away from me in hospital . |
| 4 | I was what I felt unconsciously I had never had a chance to be : a little girl . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I had always had the sense of a ‘ presence ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She had just had the pains when Colt had last written , not been feeling herself . |
| 10 | She had also had a pot plant on the chest called David . |
| 11 | Her time in custody was the equivalent of a one-month prison sentence and she had also had the punishment of spending three weeks at the probation hostel , he added . |
| 12 | She suspects that Charles suspects that she had once had an affair with Ivan , but of course she had not , though she concedes that Ivan is so unpleasant that only a degree of past sexual intimacy could plausibly explain the kind of relationship that he and Liz have over the years established . |
| 13 | You would never have believed that she had ever had a problem in that area . |
| 14 | She was blonde , like his Mandy , except unlike Mandy she had never had a chance in life . |
| 15 | She did not tell them she had never had a job , had been supported by a husband she had left . |
| 16 | She had never had the belt before . |
| 17 | She had never had the need . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Leith was busily sorting through her wardrobe , finding unexpectedly that , while she had always had an ability to make decisions , she was dithering over what to take with her to Parkwood tomorrow . |
| 20 | All except Marie , who had just had a baby ; and my brother and Roddy McDowall . |
| 21 | She was going to Birmingham to stay with her sister who had just had a baby girl . |
| 22 | Suzanne , my wife , who had just had a baby , drove three hours twice a day to see me . |
| 23 | The designer was Margaret Kaye , who had just had an exhibition of collages made with fabric , and she used a similar technique to try to provide the mixture of fantasy and realism needed to match the ballet . |
| 24 | The young women had come downstairs and Dad , who had already had a skinful , addressed Molly in a jovial manner . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But while reasserting the old , he also broke new ground in the claim that he was rightful lord over all men in the area who had hitherto had no lord . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Particularly if you had just had a row with your wife , and rather suspected that you were in the wrong . |
| 30 | ‘ You had better have a word with my husband , ’ Mrs Smith said , and indicated that they should go through into the drawing-room . |