Example sentences of "have had [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The NBS was good idea when first introduced , but gradually it has had less an less interest shown in it . |
| 2 | ‘ This is one that Alan has had for a long period of time , ’ Mr Cross said . |
| 3 | Any object that an individual has had for a long time , a favourite book for example , has already been affected by that individual 's electrical impulses . |
| 4 | This explains the attraction soft conventionalism has had for a recent generation of legal philosophers . |
| 5 | I hope that the panel will feel that it has had as a result of the position statements before it , and the discussions over the last few days , sufficient information to decide whether to exclude certain sectors . |
| 6 | Already he is delighted with the back-up he has had from a professionally run franchisor . |
| 7 | Jamie was in the middle of a story about a disagreement he 'd had with a master at his school over the A-level English syllabus when the phone rang . |
| 8 | Was he going to give her some note on performance , some idea he 'd had for a new bit of business in the play ? |
| 9 | Of all the opportunities I 'd had for a good chat-up line , simply croaking ‘ Hospital ’ was n't one of my best . |
| 10 | His mother had shown him lots of things , photographs and even odds and ends she 'd had as a child , but she 'd never shown him her wedding-dress . |
| 11 | " All right then ? " he said , smiling again , his head a little on one side , a gesture he 'd had as a small boy . |
| 12 | Our team lost the game by 125 runs , but they reckoned overall it was the most enjoyable day 's cricket they 'd had in a long time . |
| 13 | It was pink , one he 'd had from a baby . |
| 14 | What we do have and have had for a long time in this country is an acceptance within our law and an acceptance within our definitions of freedom that there are responsibilities with freedom and those responsibilities in this particular case , we have long accepted the argument in this country , maybe not as much as erm , well more in fact than some of our colleagues abroad and maybe they could learn from us from this , but it is not acceptable to have the freedom to be unnecessarily cruel and in fox hunting we have a sport that is unnecessarily cruel , there are ways in which you can deal with rogue foxes , there are ways in which you can actually ensure that the fox community does not destroy the whole , er farming countryside . |
| 15 | ‘ You know who we should have had as a father , Annie . |
| 16 | If only I 'd gone along with the doctor 's proposals , it would have been over by now — completely and painlessly over , and any feelings of guilt I might have had as a result I would surely have dealt with ages ago . |
| 17 | Where once you would have had as a matter of necessity a plot with at its heart some intricate deception , often unlikely , now your plot will arise from the characters you want to write about . |
| 18 | To examine the effect that railway building might have had on a self-contained and isolated rural community . |
| 19 | It is accordingly unnecessary to indicate the actual extent of disclosures made at the appeal hearing or the consequences that that might have had upon a differently based immunity claim . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've had this idea ’ , said Lewis , ‘ of letters from a senior devil to a junior devil ’ The Screwtape Letters brought into literary use qualities which Lewis had had to a highly developed degree ever since adolescence . |
| 21 | He told me of one case he had had of a woman in her early twenties . |
| 22 | Felix pondered a bad time that Stephen had had with a girl a while ago , and fiddled with his shortwave radio . |
| 23 | He told Took about a consultation he had had with a doctor , who told him : ‘ What you ought to do is to get yourself a retired petty officer to look after you . ’ |
| 24 | However , even after several years , his paces never regained the natural , easy , long-stepping flow they had had as a paddocked youngster ; and his personality could be kindly described as awkward , and certainly was n't to be trusted . |
| 25 | It was a habit he had had as a child . |
| 26 | It was the feeling she had had as a child when she frightened herself with a detective story . |
| 27 | He was wearing winceyette pyjamas like those he had had as a child . |
| 28 | These were the only weapons she had had against an apparently uncaring world , and through using them she retained a precarious sense of identity and integrity . |
| 29 | Er , it 's a wee problem I 've had for a say about a year now . |
| 30 | ‘ I am not pregnant , nor do I suffer from anorexia , ’ she added frostily , ‘ I 'm trying to shake off an illness I 've had for a few months , that 's all . ’ |