Example sentences of "[vb past] have [adj] experience " in BNC.
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| 1 | And since , unlike many wives of city moguls , she 'd had recent experience at the sharp end of business in the City of London , she understood , only too clearly , the problems he was facing at the present time . |
| 2 | She 'd had one experience of lesbianism , and had hated it . |
| 3 | At this dinner Faulkner claimed that only one in ten of Derry 's unemployed had any previous industrial experience ; the DUAC carried out a survey at the Bishop Street Labour Exchange which , they claimed , showed that 50 per cent of those interviewed did have such experience . |
| 4 | The dreams of people who had had traumatic experiences in the war , and who had developed neurotic symptoms , often contained material about the situation in which they were traumatized . |
| 5 | Little did the other helpers know that I had had real experience in the world of commerce outside . |
| 6 | One MPG teacher thought that , in theory , job satisfaction would increase if there was greater involvement in making decision , but he had had little experience of this ! |
| 7 | Lucien had had little experience of female-kind in his life , and it was the women of Mandru 's household who were the most kind to him during the first traumatic days of his life there . |
| 8 | Prince Charles had had similar experiences . |
| 9 | Later discussing the experience with his workmates the reaction was divided , some voiced complete disbelief , some agreed as they too had had similar experiences , others just nodded agreement with Willie . |
| 10 | Too late I thought of adding , ‘ On oath , my lord ? ’ , for I have never seen a more striking example of the perils of what the law calls ‘ fleeting identification ’ , and this from a witness to whom I was not a total stranger and who himself , both as counsel and judge , had had long experience in assessing the worth of ID witnesses in court . |
| 11 | He suffered over evidence that he had links with former communists and the secret police ; over criticism of his ambiguous prescriptions for economic recovery ; and over ridicule of his claims that he had had mystical experiences . |
| 12 | Brian Inglis , a writer on the paranormal , said the spoof could have been damaging for those who had had ghostly experiences . |
| 13 | The data seems to support the first belief : of those who had had some experience of unemployment in the previous five years , 0.480 said they would be prepared to break the law , whereas only 0.300 of those who had no such experience were ( a difference of +0.180 ) . |
| 14 | He had had some experience , he said , of the extent to which thoughtless , incautious young men were ‘ victimized and not unfrequently involved in utter ruin on the very threshold of their career by money-lenders who prey upon their credulity and inexperience . ’ |
| 15 | Indeed , I was slow to discover that other men had had this experience , for it had been possible to read books and to associate with men on other grounds … |
| 16 | It is only if someone can do , has learnt , is master of , such-and-such , that it makes sense to say he had had this experience . |
| 17 | While James devoted considerable space to William Wilberforce and less to the elder Stephen , Macaulay and others , George especially underlined the work of his father and Macaulay who were , he claimed , the only long-standing abolitionists who had had direct experience of the effects of the slave trade and slavery and who were portrayed as replacing Clarkson as the ‘ crutches ’ of the parliamentary antislavery leadership by the 1820s . |
| 18 | This section went on to ask whether the respondent had had direct experience of a whole school review in accordance with the Oxfordshire scheme . |
| 19 | Once again , fewer Asians had had unpleasant experiences . |
| 20 | The contract had been until the end of September when she could reapply for the job she had been turned down for , ‘ provided she had had sufficient experience nursing very sick children ’ , he said . |
| 21 | At the time Circular 7/88 was published , neither Cambridgeshire nor Solihull had had any experience of the use of funding based on a formula . |
| 22 | As part of this study , academics were asked if they had had any experience of integrated/interdisciplinary degree courses , and whether it had been positive or negative . |
| 23 | Julia , Ruth & I did this between us , but none of us had had any experience running the projectors , sound or lighting equipment beforehand . |
| 24 | The initial impetus came from the Managing Director of one of the largest of the Harris Tweed manufacturers — the son of a crofter and himself a fisherman in his early days The Association was , however , given its distinctive shape and its constitution by the first chairman , Rev. Ian Carmichael , a Gaelic-speaker from Lismore who was a minister in Stornoway at the time , and who had had considerable experience of welfare work in industry , and had been for some years vice convener of one of the largest local authorities in Scotland . |
| 25 | They noted that one LEA employed only qualified personnel , whereas others were content to recruit mothers who had had first-hand experience of bringing up their own children . |
| 26 | Almost all had brought up children of their own and 80 per cent had had voluntary experience in schools . |
| 27 | He knew well enough that he could not , but had had enough experience to know that aggressive tactics often paid . |
| 28 | He had had enough experience of strangers probing his own hurts without wanting to pry into those of others . |
| 29 | And they , they had had some experience or were they engineers or something |