Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] have a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of the strangeness of Eliot 's behaviour , however , few people begrudged him the happiness which in personal relations he had never experienced before : " He obviously needed to have a happy marriage , " Valerie Eliot said on a later occasion , " He could n't die until he had had it " . |
| 2 | It rejected the idea that the associated companies which together did have a countrywide business were in any way relevant . |
| 3 | ‘ I just came to have a little talk to you . |
| 4 | If you were asked which club it was , you just had to have a good reason for choosing it . |
| 5 | suddenly thought you still got to have a little holdall membership forms in it , have n't you ? |
| 6 | DARLINGTON Health Authority yesterday pledged to have a special unit for leukaemia patients open and fully staffed by August . |
| 7 | The Leeds manager always appeared to have a slight reservation about the gifted Frenchman 's ability to adapt to England . |
| 8 | Let Spencer help you , my dear , my youngest son always did have a good head for figures . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You always did have a gallant streak , Jimmie , ’ Randall said , skirting the crowd . |
| 10 | James Sandoe , a fine American critic of crime fiction , once said of the typical private-eye that , although there was no specific reason for it , somehow he always had to have a shabby office with " shabby restaurant nearby serving leaden eggs and greasy bacon " . |
| 11 | The fourth John Booth founded another major firm in partnership with John Hartop and George Binks , whose own families also had had a long involvement in the local metal trades . |
| 12 | It would n't do just to have straight furrows : a good ploughman also had to have a good top to the stetch — the furrows lying all flat and even . |
| 13 | Ferngrove Park , with its woods and meadows and deep thickets full of secret nooks and crannies , was a place where the Brownies really did have a grand time . |
| 14 | She really did have a long way to go , and she had not yet learned to recognise the precise lineaments , the demeanour and the shape of the shadow of Stan . |
| 15 | In the end , I really did have a good time at College . |
| 16 | they really did have a proper scheme and you were paid a sort of reasonable wage |
| 17 | I did n't really believe it at first , er , and then I received couple or more phone calls from er various people in the industry who er , who were aware of it and started to congratulate me , and then I realised that it was the truth , that er I really did have a big hit record once again with Blue Velvet . |
| 18 | All the talk after the game is about Gascoigne , but he really had had a marvellous match had n't he ? |
| 19 | Sorry to sound a little perverse on that issue , but I , we really wanted to have a clear indication of what you felt as District Planning Officers , er an and indeed we 'll hear what the County feel and in fact have pursued through this alteration , but can I again , just for clarification , and in fact it 's a sort of final head count , er and again I raise this in the context of P P G three paragraph thirty three , and that is the degree of acceptability , or otherwise , by the local planning authorities , erm and I only need a nod from you , or otherwise , for the record . |
| 20 | At one moment he even seemed to have a small advantage , but after 44 moves a draw was agreed in a level position . |
| 21 | People , their understandings of their circumstances and their struggles to force collective facilities out of the state , were again under-conceptualised and , indeed , even seemed to have a small role to play . |
| 22 | In 1936 a patient , thought to be suffering from schizophrenia , was found to have abnormal activity in the EEG and then discovered to have a cerebral tumour . |
| 23 | She jotted it down , picked up the plaster from the surgery , then went to have a quick word with Helen . |
| 24 | Not surprisingly , however , Sharpe , who less than two years previously seemed to have a golden future with United and England , was scared stiff . |
| 25 | A woman officer also recently admitted having a close relationship with a prisoner during rehearsals for a play which Mr. Lodge produced . |
| 26 | It was totally demanding , I never seemed to have a free minute . |
| 27 | Anne never seemed to have a free moment . |
| 28 | We never did have a proper wash house at our place like some people , with a big boiler and a fire underneath for hot water . |
| 29 | The glass must have held nearly half a pint and I thought I too had had a splendid day out . |