Example sentences of "[vb past] had this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah I , I , I think , I think it was about by the time he , he 'd had this allowance from you know going to College , I , I think it left him with about twenty seven bob a week , which was n't bad you know . |
| 2 | It was n't the first time he 'd had this nightmare ; it was happening more often nowadays . |
| 3 | He 'd had this sickness all along , of course , but he 'd worsened since the assassin 's visit , and her tolerance for these traits , braced as she 'd been by her encounter with Gentle , had dropped to zero . |
| 4 | Cos Michael started it , he said we 're never said anything when we set off in the car , and then he said that he 'd had this fax from me and er Andrew said , well it was n't actually from , er , from me to the , it was fetched up to me and I sent it in the office . |
| 5 | What she 'd had was a double-booking , effectively , cos she 'd had this dinner which was meant to be in the private dining hall , but the numbers had suddenly shot up , and because they 'd said originally they wanted either the private dining hall or the main dining hall depending on numbers , she should have really booked them both and decided later and told me to like try somewhere else , but she did n't , she told me yeah the dining hall 's free . |
| 6 | Cos they 'd had this meal . |
| 7 | Captain Biggins had had this crew for fourteen missions now , few things had gone seriously wrong , and his skill and judgement were fully trusted . |
| 8 | They could not even think of washing my hair until I had had this operation to put the two rods in my back . ’ |
| 9 | To determine the effect of cholecystectomy , the women who had had this operation were compared with the women who were discovered on ultrasonography to have gall stones ( n=48 , aged 25 to 67 , mean 45 ) , all but three of whom were asymptomatic . |
| 10 | Take-up has stemmed partly from the wish of those companies trading internationally and particularly in the highly litigious US to protect their directors and partly because , as Willis Corroon 's Drew Hardie said , ‘ when directors who had had this cover then moved to other companies they asked for it to be part of their new contract ’ . |
| 11 | They had had this kind of conversation before and it always ended with her frustrated and him defiant . |
| 12 | Fortunately Mercer himself had had this conversation with Emil , which meant he felt no need to ask me also , so I escaped having to speak too much in my English accent at his table . |
| 13 | But they had had this conversation so often and to such little purpose that he had long ago abandoned his part of the dialogue . |
| 14 | 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 … |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | John Dunford , Philip King and John Kennedy had had this idea to record me ‘ live ’ in a pub , so they brought down a mobile unit to Winkles Hotel in Kinvara , and we were all there for three or four days . |
| 17 | How many of those who said they would prefer their husband , wife , mother , etc to go into institutional care had had this wish granted within one year ? |
| 18 | Milton and Pooley had had this ritual described fully to them , graphically and with actions , but it still held great fascination . |
| 19 | He realized that we felt disgusted at what had been achieved in the commandos and that he had had this brainwave of small parties behind the lines . ’ |
| 20 | Lisa had had this feeling before , that he could predict her behaviour , that he could see just a little too clearly inside her head . |
| 21 | But she was not to know that he had had this desire , and went into the house with head bent , feeling that she had been a failure . |
| 22 | Poland , the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia had had this status since mid-1989 [ see p. 37212 ] , as had Hungary until its accession in November 1990 [ see p. 37870 ] . |