Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] had [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A private party in some high-rise apartment block ; looking down into the city from the forty-second floor , it was like being inside a radio , one of those old valve radios , and Jed almost told Creed what he thought , he almost blurted something Creed would n't even have understood , You must 've had radios thrown away some time , did n't you ? but the rush blew over and he was still staring down into the forest of lit buildings and he still had n't spoken .
2 You must 've had people passing through there , famous people who you can register , get them there , do , do this sort of thing .
3 ‘ I should have had abortions both times , ’ she muttered .
4 Should have had Paul here .
5 So these should have had price increases .
6 Should have had PC George Dixon at Port Stanley back in ‘ 81 , Jitters thought .
7 ‘ But in his last over , he had the guts to bowl really fast and he should have had Allan Lamb caught three times but each time their 'keeper dropped it .
8 I should have had scenes like the ones you shot with Curtis and Ireland .
9 ( We should have had boys ! )
10 Maybe they should have had foresight and er this would n't have happened at Bilsthorpe .
11 She should have stayed with Fernando , she should have had faith in her own feelings at the time — and his .
12 But when the owners later asked for permission to erect a temporary office , they were told the greenhouse itself should have had permission … and it would have to come down .
13 ‘ By rights I should have had compensation , but the firm argued that he was a freelance , working on contract , and their lawyers wriggled out of it .
14 We should have had champagne .
15 William Pitt , First Earl of Chatham , should have had pall-bearers equal in rank to himself , but this was not to be and in a letter written in 1778 following the funeral in Westminster Abbey , the nineteen-year-old Pitt the Younger said to his mother , ‘ The Court did not honour us with their countenance , nor did they suffer the procession to be as magnificent as it ought ; but it had , notwithstanding everything essential to the great object , the attendance being most remarkable .
16 It is not surprising that in the mid-fourth century the shape of the Pyramids should have influenced the architecture of an otherwise Greek building like the Mausoleum at Halikarnassus ; or that the cult of the Egyptian Isis should have had worshippers at fourth-century Athens ( Tod 189 , line 44 and p. 178 ) .
17 Had this not been the case , I should have had renown in
18 She wondered whether she should have had Ari dress in a bath-robe or something .
19 Above her , the vault seemed so high it should have had rag-clouds like Mars , but it was unearthly white .
20 You take your moistened paper it should n't be dripping wet like this , it should have had time to dry out a bit .
21 Of course I have n't written the review — I doubt if I should have had time , my own work takes up too much . ’
22 They argued that the principles he adopted had been politically motivated and should have had regard to the spending needs of each authority .
23 Meanwhile , Betty Titford was clearly getting no better as years went by , and she must have had friends who realised only too well that 1s. a fortnight could hardly supply even her most fundamental needs .
24 ‘ The girls must have had friends .
25 I 'm not joking , this must have had collars and right mm , !
26 The senders of it must have had misgivings as to whether he would obey as they appear to have decided to back it up with physical intimidation .
27 Where 's he making it , he must have had money he did n't just buy those fields and make money and have a big house like that .
28 He must have had charm , nevertheless , not to mention a broad Somerset accent which may have added to his own special brand of eloquence .
29 All DMS candidates must have had work experience of a kind which will enable them to benefit from and contribute to the course .
30 It must have had occult properties ,
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