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

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1 I have had others who 've actually said ‘ X does n't like my child ’ , but then of course X does n't like any black child .
2 There is one for the work force and something called ’ Green Watch ’ on which I have had correspondence with the county director and which costs about £60,000 a year .
3 I have had breathing problems which my doctor has said is a figment of my imagination and he has diagnosed depression .
4 I I I have had dealings with him .
5 I have had letters from fans asking if I would think again .
6 Met someone today , the third of a partnership trio in which I have had contact with two over the years for different reasons and he said look in re CV for i/view practice if I want — he was with a local enterprise company helping with startups and job searches and now voluntarily helps with just such a counselling group via one of the big churches in Edinburgh for redundant executives — the figure quoted to me recently re architects in Scotland is that forty per cent are redundant .
7 I HAVE had sex with a few girls but I do n't think that they found this experience very satisfying .
8 I have had success but I have also been involved in relegation fights .
9 I have had operations .
10 I have had occasion where , when I have wanted felt the urge — to strike , and oh , sometimes when I 've seen her temper and Jill is stamping around , and I 'll say , ‘ All right , upstairs you go . ’
11 However , I have had occasion recently to visit the Church Road offices of the Environmental Health and Building Control sections of the Council and I have been appalled to see the conditions in which these people have to work .
12 I have had au pairs and nannies — everything for that child .
13 No one else seems ever to have encountered such a sight and I have had difficulty convincing friends of the truth of my tale .
14 I have had experience of this engine in a Range Rover , the only reliability problems being the cold starting , which the multiheater head should solve .
15 I have had experience of children arriving in this country unaccompanied from Somalia , Ethiopia and Eritrea .
16 I have had consultants who have done a full cowboy job and then charged me £25.000 . ’
17 I have had discussions with Alex Stein and Councillor Begg about publicity on the council Tax .
18 I have had discussions with the various groups and I am convinced that a solution could have been arrived at if the Minister had arranged for collective discussions to take place .
19 I have had discussions with those people , collectively and individually , but even were the leaders prepared to make some concessions , the strongly held views of people at both ends of the spectrum are such that it would be exceedingly difficult to introduce a proposal to the House which hon. Members would accept could form the basis for coherent , workable and enforceable legislation .
20 I have had gill flukes ( not personally ! ) and my fish did n't scratch ; they acted as if they were being poisoned ( heightened colour , loss of control of movement ) , possibly because of oxygen depletion due to gill damage .
21 I have had phone calls to the house warning me to stop work or else , but the Army could n't care less .
22 I have had sight of the manuscript , ’ Mr Malik was saying .
23 I have had dreams .
24 I have had complaints from farmers of accumulations of litter in places where sheep graze , of the fouling of streams that provide the drinking water for farms , of the erosion of footpaths caused by parties walking abreast on paths intended for single-file walking , and of the crossing of private farmland without permission being sought .
25 I have had complaints from several enquirers who , not knowing our telephone extensions , have had to wait an inordinate length of time before being connected to the operator .
26 He said last night : ‘ I have had complaints from my family and the medical people that I am getting too impatient .
27 My thanks also are due to Miss Mary Burkett and her staff at Abbot Hall , from whom I have had help and co-operation since the start of the survey in 1975 ; to Mr B. C. Jones and Miss S. J. MacPherson , County Archivists , of the County Records Office , who have given generous help and advice ; ; to Marie Hartley and Joan Ingilby , whose book first aroused my interest in the stocking trade ; to my fellow members of the Lancashire and Lakes Guild of Spinners , Weavers and Dyers for encouragement and support ; to my granddaughter , Anne Allen , who took the photographs , ( except where otherwise stated ) ; to my daughter , Jan Hare , who typed the manuscript ; to my friends , Penelope Porter , Kathryn Allen and Mary Sutherland , who gave technical advice , reviewed text and read proofs ; Elizabeth Edwards and Kathleen Drummond for advice and information , and above all my thanks to the many kind people who live where there are galleries , and who have put up with my enquiries with such patience and kindness .
28 I have had help from the right hon. Members for Blaenau Gwent ( Mr. Foot ) and for Tweeddale , Ettrick and Lauderdale ( Sir D. Steel ) in advocating that my right hon. and learned Friend should tackle the problem of dyslexia .
29 I have had girls , ’ enunciated Glenda , ‘ up to here . ’
30 ‘ No decision about the meeting will be made until I have had talks with those responsible for organising the group 's itinerary , but we are not at all happy with the decision to meet Sinn Fein . ’
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