Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had agreed to this in case I had to have a Caesarian . |
| 2 | I mentioned a boy who had only been at school for two terms , a boy who had had a limp , someone he had been friendly with for a time . |
| 3 | As a child she had had a piggy bank ; she could recall the physical satisfaction of its jingling weight in her hands . |
| 4 | He discovered that as a girl she had had a passion for Stendhal , so had he , and they talked about Julien Sorel and Tolstoi and Rimbaud . |
| 5 | Labour law and order spokesman Alun Michael MP said : ‘ If every item of shopping we bought had a ticket telling us how much of its price was due to crime losses and higher insurance premiums , we would all be appalled . |
| 6 | On the way down on that stretch of road from death one to death two I call them , the roundabouts I suddenly realised if we were going to have a rehearsal we needed to have a bouquet of flowers did n't we so I leapt out of the car picked some weeds tied them up with a piece of strong so that the chap of our staff who was going to be in front of me was going to hold them during the rehearsal whilst I dashed up to play first of all the Lord Provost and then the Queen or the Lady Provost as she then was . |
| 7 | Certainly he never became an outstanding dancer , but as a performer he did have a feeling for movement and character that enabled him to make a theatrical impact in some roles not needing much technique or classical style . |
| 8 | " I have n't liked to say anything about it , but you must have noticed , that evening you stayed to have a drink with us , that my wife was n't quite herself . " |
| 9 | The wine we drank had a trace of resin , as if the vineyard had merely been beside a pine-forest , and was nothing like the harsh turpentine-tasting rotgut I sometimes drank in the village . |
| 10 | The first body they passed had a piece of paper pinned to its blanket , Smith , Maisie . |
| 11 | After some months of working with him it gradually emerged that although he had indeed identified his wife 's body he had had a member of the hospital staff with him at all times . |
| 12 | Just her regrets about the Rector 's wife who 'd had a miscarriage … |
| 13 | By half-past twelve each day he had had a hunger pain . |
| 14 | Like Spurgeon he had worked his way up from humble beginnings — his father had been a Northumberland stone-mason — and like Spurgeon he had had a chapel built round him . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , Paisley was keen to establish a public distinction between these two roles , At an early election meeting in an Orange Hall in the Bannside constituency he arranged to have a friend ask him if Protestant Unionism was just Free Presbyterianism by another name . |
| 16 | ( Friend of woman who had had a number of strokes . ) |
| 17 | I went to the Norfolk Broads , and erm I think it was Saturday morning we went to have a look at a flat , |
| 18 | She was damned if she would be put through a third degree by this raving lunatic who seemed to have a fixation about someone called Lotta . |
| 19 | Of course he 'd had a lot on his mind . |
| 20 | On my way to the pay ‘ phone near the gents , I noticed the door to the back room was open , and for some reason I decided to have a look . |
| 21 | In the end I had to have a go ! |
| 22 | They loved Polly 's garden which seemed to have a magic of its own . |
| 23 | She affiliated herself more with the opposing camp of Impressionism — when a female caller at her studio who hoped to have a portrait done told Walker that she was regarded as having a ‘ Burne-Jones-face ’ Walker replied , ‘ what a damn sickly sort of face to have ! ’ 20 However , despite this aversion and the fact that her own women do not resemble the Pre-Raphaelite type , in her attitude towards her women there is much that is similar . |
| 24 | And then she came back er , just before lunchtime I think and then they tried to , they sat Kirsty and and Claire down , and they told them to make up and talk to each other and in the end they started having a fight ! |
| 25 | Just before breakfast I had had a phone call from Ken Billings , one of our best farmers , and his words were still echoing in my head . |
| 26 | I had no idea I 'd had a baby . |
| 27 | Each was a romantic saga in miniature and each had the same basic plot : in a variety of vaguely 1930s settings , James played a wealthy philanderer who appeared to have a fetish about tea since the common feature of the married women he pursued was their taste for Trumper 's Tea Bags . |
| 28 | Another 48 Hours was done out of fear because Harlem Nights was the first time I 'd had a movie that flopped . |
| 29 | As I said , I was almost half way up the front before I realised that between knitting the back and starting the front I 'd had a teaching session . |
| 30 | Emily felt a flash of irritation , she had insisted that the shoemaker 's daughter take the boots away to be soled and heeled and at the same time she 'd had a fitting for some new slippers . |