Example sentences of "[verb] have had [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Some appear to have had gas bladders like the Portuguese Man O'War .
2 They appear to have had metal destination boxes at first , soon replaced by wooden ones like 46–55 .
3 The proportions reported to have had difficulty with various aspects of caring for themselves ( getting in and out of a bath or shower , dressing and undressing , going to the toilet , washing and shaving , feeding themselves , making a hot drink , or needing help at night ) for a year or more before death was 87 per cent of those who had been in a residential home for a year or more , 60 per cent of those in for a shorter time and 25 per cent of those who had not been in such a home at all .
4 In my view , however , the effect of section 38 ( a ) is not to vest title in the trustee retrospectively in the sense that under the Act he is deemed to have had title at the commencement of the bankruptcy ; the effect of section 38 ( a ) is to vest in the trustee , when adjudication occurs , title to property which is identified by reference to the property which belonged to the bankrupt at the commencement of the bankruptcy .
5 Interesting that both women seemed to have had access to more money than you would expect .
6 Almost nine tenths , 88 per cent , of the people who had spent some time in a residential home were said to have had access to a telephone where they could make calls and people could telephone them .
7 I should like to have had time to discuss such matters , but the paucity of progress made yesterday , the long speeches and the many amendments which had to be considered left the Government with no option but to move a guillotine motion today .
8 He would like to have had Cropnose 's version , but their paths did n't cross , and there was no reason , meantime , why he should seek the King 's mother .
9 Though Offa granted land to Woking in Surrey ( CS 275 : S 144 ) , he can not be shown to have had influence here before 784–5 .
10 Men claimed to have had sex 8.1 times in the last month , and each encounter had lasted 31 minutes on average .
11 Men claimed to have had sex 8.1 times in the last month , and each encounter had lasted 31 minutes on average .
12 He relates a lasting erotic liaison with a certain Mary Parish , an astrologer , cunning woman , and medium , with whom he lived in Long Acre , and by whom he claimed to have had progeny numbering 106 .
13 Which Hollywood actress had alleged to have had sex with an entire football team which
14 How it would have helped to have had Clause 10 to guide me , and the means by which to make my protest public .
15 As you would expect , the change in pronunciation was made once and for all , but either the brothers or the editors of the Register seem to have had difficulty making up their minds how to spell it .
16 Me mum and dad seem to have had trouble with their toaster do n't they ?
17 Besides , no one I know has had sex since Studio 54 closed .
18 ‘ The princes are no longer seen in the gardens , child — none as far as I know has had sight or sound of them for several weeks .
19 One envies Saint Teresa of Avila ( 1957 , pp.23–4 ) , who appears to have had conviction and commitment almost from birth :
20 Particularly as it has been discovered that about 30% of men who die from other causes are also found to have had prostate cancer . ’
21 ( It is noteworthy that women known to have had hypertension in the first half of pregnancy were excluded from the analysis ) .
22 ‘ Yet you are the only man , ’ insisted the abbot mercilessly , but without pressing the suggestion to an accusation , ‘ who is known to have had reason to fear his coming here with what he could tell .
23 It is foolhardy for you to play around with your dog 's diet when he is known to have had urolithiasis .
24 The latest medical theories suggest that Mozart 's last illness had its roots in the various serious infections he had suffered as a child : on the early trip to Paris and London he had contracted rheumatic fever , tonsillitis. and typhoid fever ; in 1167 he had caught smallpox ; and in Italy he seems to have had bronchitis and yellow jaundice .
25 Not to be confused with his Herefordshire relative and namesake , who was the father-in-law of George Calvert , later first Baron Baltimore [ q.v. ] , his origins are obscure , though he seems to have had family and property connections in Shropshire and Surrey .
26 The interest is in the fact that Kellner seems to have had access to earlier version of works in sources that no longer survive , and Stinson is very adroit at disentangling and reconstructing Bach 's original conceptions .
27 He had long been reported ill with kidney problems and was rumoured to have had throat cancer .
28 Two patients ( patient B and patient H ) were believed to have had proctitis but were subsequently found to have total colitis at colonoscopy with biopsy or histological examination of the colectomy specimen ( one Dukes 's B , one Dukes 's C ) ( Table I ) .
29 The Mercians would seem to have had influence in Berkshire at an earlier date in the reign of Wulfhere and the same may well have been true of Somerset , in which case what Aethelbald was doing was appropriating border territories traditionally in dispute between the Mercians and the western Saxons .
30 By contrast , on the other side of the equator , there are societies , such as some of the traditional pre-colonial Southern African states which though they have pastoralism and agriculture , do not seem to have had slavery .
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