Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] had [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The females close in on him , led by some old lady dolphin who has obviously had much practice at settling sharks . |
| 2 | Chloe Joe has obviously had some terrifying experiences , and she certainly needs to be ‘ de-sensitised ’ to every sort of household noise , family and friends . |
| 3 | Although the product is still under development , DataFocus has apparently had some good results with a number of unidentified packages . |
| 4 | The thesis that the shock was initially due to a lack of demand has perhaps had less acceptance than a supply- side line of explanation , eg that high unemployment has been due to excessive wage levels . |
| 5 | Looks so young — has just had another face-lift |
| 6 | He throws himself entirely on the divine generosity of which he has already had such rich experience . |
| 7 | This argument , which has been called ‘ the fair innings argument , ’ was summarised by Lockwood : ‘ To treat the older person , letting the younger person die , would thus be inherently inequitable in terms of life lived : the younger person would get no more years than the relatively few he has already had , whereas the older person , who has already had more than the younger person , will get several years more . ’ |
| 8 | The Bristol team , working under the umbrella of the Advanced Manufacturing and Automation Research Centre ( AMARC ) , one of the University Research Centres , has already had some success with its robotic ear surgeon . |
| 9 | But BBC boss-to-be John Birt has already had enough of the sun , sex and sangria saga , which only started in July . |
| 10 | And Mr Nelson has already had several enquiries from local companies keen to use the lifeboat as part of management training programmes . |
| 11 | No newspaper in history has ever had such a lead story for its first ever first edition as the Glasgow Advertiser and Glasgow Herald , 207 years ago . |
| 12 | I doubt whether the language of a woman 's clothes has ever had such a large vocabulary before , in any society . |
| 13 | Adds Campbell : ‘ There are some good strikers around , and I do n't know if the England manager has ever had such a choice . ’ |
| 14 | No child has ever had such an exciting young life as Little Billy , and no child has ever kept such a huge secret so faithfully . |
| 15 | Probably no manuscript historian has ever had such wide range of confident experience , except perhaps the late Otto Pacht , Professor Alexander 's first teacher and M. Francois Avril in Paris , to whom the present book is dedicated . |
| 16 | Yet the mathematical calculations that would be necessary to explain the principles of vision are just as complex and difficult , and nobody has ever had any difficulty in believing that little animals can see . |
| 17 | Throughout its existence , London Switchboard has always had more would-be volunteers than it could take on . |
| 18 | Scott has assiduously photographed his travels and has always had enough strength to record the critical moments of the highest climbs , thus capturing some of the best high altitude photographs ever taken . |
| 19 | Life has always had some risks attached to it . |
| 20 | Unlike other countries , England has always had some form of national assembly . |
| 21 | ‘ He has always had this trouble , it 's OK . ’ |
| 22 | She has always had this dream that I would make it to university and she will be devastated if I do n't continue , but the way I am feeling now , I do n't want to . |
| 23 | The history of pronunciation is one of those issues that do not primarily involve standardization , because it is about the history of speech in face-to-face interaction and because standardization has always had less effect on pronunciation than on other linguistic levels . |
| 24 | Alexander Rodchenko , a pioneer of constructivism , whose work has possibly had more impact in the West than any other Russian photographer . |
| 25 | Nowadays , nearly every young person has probably had some experience of basic improvisation at their school or through the extensive TIE ( Theatre in Education ) tours . |
| 26 | Switchboard as an organization has probably had some effect on more of us , as callers and as volunteers , than any other single campaign or group has done in the recent history of lesbian and gay rights in this country . |
| 27 | But the political pressure for greater efficiency and ‘ commercialism ’ has also had more indirect but far-reaching consequences for industrial relations through its impact on management strategy . |
| 28 | The company has reportedly had more success with another product , KLEA-134a , which does not contain chlorine , does not attack the ozone layer and has thus far passed all toxicity tests . |
| 29 | The project has undoubtedly had some effect on the organisation and running of the libraries themselves . |
| 30 | Whether this redirection has yet had much effect in the classroom is another matter entirely from my own observations there seems as yet to have been few major changes in practice . |