Example sentences of "[vb -s] had [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dave Berrow , who has had committments to his Browing Starlets side which has cost him the chance to fish some possible points earning events , admits that the draw bag has n't been kind to him for quite a while . |
| 2 | It should be taken first thing in the morning , before it has had time to be increased by exertion , mental excitement , eating , or stimulants like tea , coffee or nicotine . |
| 3 | Yet another , fortunately quite rare , follows you around when it sees secateurs in your hands and drops a few eggs into the soft pith of the stem when you make a cut , before the cut wound has had time to callus and heal itself — another reason why you should always try to confine cutting to a fine dry day . |
| 4 | Anyone who has had access to classified work produced by the scientific civil service is likely to endorse this view . |
| 5 | One of the American complaints against Japan is that Japan has had access to US government-funded research while denying foreign companies access to research funded by the Japanese government . |
| 6 | The prisoner has been at his own trial and he already knows , or has had access to , all the evidence and all that was said . |
| 7 | The author , investigative journalist David Leigh , has had access to unpublished trial records and secret Whitehall files , and says that ‘ Ministers have been getting away with murder . |
| 8 | And off-screen , too , he 's had reasons to be less than charmed by life . |