Example sentences of "[adv] had [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had only had the reports himself last night . |
| 2 | ‘ Even today , after all this time , she has not had the guts to say sorry to us , ’ said Teresa 's father Stephen Power , 57 . |
| 3 | Even at forty-five m.p.h. the smell of burning rubber would have been overpowering if they had not had the windows open . |
| 4 | Many opportunities in the Soviet Union have been missed , Gattnar argues , because western companies have not had the contacts , local knowledge and language skills his outfit will provide . |
| 5 | The evidence suggests that they have ‘ clamoured for more staff and for improved premises , ’ but the family health services authority has not had the resources to support this , nor were suitable vacant sites in which premises could be developed easily available in inner London . |
| 6 | I have tried to show in this book that though the academic institutionalizing of vernacular literary study which began about a century ago had good , even inescapable reasons in its origins , its later progress has not had the effects the founders hoped for . |
| 7 | They were called back again later to concrete the area where the horses had been buried fears of health hazards had been expressed because Mr Edelson had not had the animals preserved in any way . |
| 8 | They had just had the windows repaired from the last volley of stones . |
| 9 | At the age of 42 I applied to go on a two-year business and finance course and finally , after a lot of readjustment , I have just had the results — pass with a few distinctions and merits thrown in . |
| 10 | She had just had the pains when Colt had last written , not been feeling herself . |
| 11 | A few governments have done so quite openly and unpretentiously , by establishing laws of censorship as in Ethiopia , Niger and Cameroon : military regimes have generally had no qualms about controlling the press . |
| 12 | This massive Japanese sportswear giant has always had the resources to make an impact in the running market , now it seems to have the will . |
| 13 | District nurses have always had the skills to treat acutely ill patients , but have not had nurses or aides under them . |
| 14 | ‘ Princesse Mathilde has always had the aspirations of a fairy godmother . ’ |
| 15 | So it 's nothing new really , those , those labels have always had the contents and things in you know . |
| 16 | Well , I knew he was Up to something because , with the old nurse , he 's always had the injections in his arm . |
| 17 | The 19 year old Spaniard has always had the weapons but , so often in the past , has used them sparingly in her pursuit of greatness . |
| 18 | I have n't hardly had no fags today . |
| 19 | Richard Harris , who has also had the highs and lows in plenty , gave up drinking at exactly 11.20 pm on 11 August 1981 at the Jockey Club . |
| 20 | No we still have n't had a women 's night and I do n't think we probably ever will have . |
| 21 | I ca n't complain about the windows cos o you know , I have n't had no draughts really but then you get parasites you know like fleas and bugs coming through these ventilations . |
| 22 | I said no , I ai n't had no motors in of your type . |
| 23 | we have n't had the bad weather , we have n't had the fogs that |
| 24 | we have n't had the fogs that other people have had |
| 25 | But he had n't had the guts to do it . |
| 26 | I 'm my own man and that 's very important in these times , even if you have n't had the problems I 've had , and you have n't , because that 's perfectly obvious , you 're sitting there and asking me the questions . |
| 27 | say that women have been discriminated against for so long that they just have n't had the opportunities to rise up through the ranks , and if they are ever going to achieve the kind of representation that they ought to achieve just by the sheer numbers that the represent in the population , apart from the quality , and there are a lot of people who would say that women are probably rather superior erm to a lot of men at an equal level |
| 28 | It 's got instant character , whereas a new guitar has n't had the years of beating on it and fiddling with to give it the character . |
| 29 | Mrs Ramsden 's husband , Jack , whose successful punting exploits have regularly had the bookies reaching for the valium bottle , was at first stunned and angered by the suggestion that anything was wrong with Travelling Light , whom he has backed at 33-1 for the second leg of the Autumn Double . |
| 30 | An unemployed member now could be a full member in the near future , possibly in firms where we have previously had no members . |