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

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1 I have had people ring me up at weekends and luckily I 've had the stuff and taken it back .
2 I enjoy the more wishy-washy concepts — I wish perhaps I 'd had the chance to do a physics and philosophy option — and it seems to me that when we do things like quantum physics nobody bothers very much with the concepts that that presents — they just tend to give you all the theory .
3 If only she 'd had the chance to ask him why he 'd had the affair .
4 And she could have done it again if only she 'd had the chance .
5 If only she 'd had the courage to tell him she wanted to end their relationship when the cracks had first started to appear .
6 She might live to rue this impetuous decision , but at least she 'd never look back with regret on what might have been if only she 'd had the courage to dare .
7 The signs had all been there if only she 'd had the gumption to read them .
8 If only they had had the sense to invest in cleaning up our power stations , as the Germans have done , we would not watch electricity industry representatives and Ministers rushing around trying to find cheap fixes to meet their European obligations .
9 Only they have had the chance to view the Earth from this unique vantage point — until now .
10 In doing so it has had the benefit of conversations with the Revd.
11 The likelihood of a syphilitic mother passing the infection on when she is pregnant diminishes the longer she has had the disease , and when she has been given an adequate course of anti-syphilitic treatment , there is no chance of her infecting her unborn child unless she herself becomes reinfected .
12 Somehow he had had the sound relayed to a speaker , or speakers , in the hills — perhaps that was what was in the little room , relaying equipment , a generator .
13 It was he who arranged medical care , arranged the hospital — even arranged for an adoption ; but once I 'd had the baby , and she so soft and little , so lovely , I could n't do it .
14 No I 'm er having it privately like I 've had the other , you know , on my er
15 Since Father died and Mam walked out I 've had the running of this house on my shoulders .
16 She had the ability and now she had had the break .
17 For some time now she 'd had the feeling that she was not the flavour of the month as far as he was concerned .
18 Strike while the iron 's hot sort of thing , now we 've had the idea ?
19 It must obviously be too late to go to the bazaar now , he thought with relief as he came face to face with the group , but he found himself trotting out the excuse about correcting papers and not noticing the time before anyone had had the chance to comment on his non-attendance .
20 It turned out he had had the rudiments of classicism flogged into him as a schoolboy .
21 Well I 've had the sniffles at the moment but we 've had a lot of people at work with
22 Well I 've had the mower serviced .
23 Well we 've had the government 's er White Paper , that 's now become an Act of Parliament , and in accordance with that er Parliamentary decision , all the nineteen ninety two District Health Authorities in the Country , er are newly constituted .
24 Well he 's had the fire plumbed in but the gas is n't on .
25 Why could n't he have had the decency just to be straight with her ?
26 For a decade till then I 'd had the adrenalin flowing .
27 Then I 'd had the impression of a pleasant face , but no crowd-raiser .
28 Well , I 've grown up tonight , and it 's too late — too late for us , but at least I 've had the chance of putting things straight with you , and that puts my mind at peace . ’
29 There I had had the right to follow my own devices throughout the day .
30 Consequently I 've had the pleasure of reading the Echo whilst working in the south of England , Scotland and Belfast .
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