Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] have have a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I had agreed to this in case I had to have a Caesarian .
2 If there 's erm For instance I 've had a situation where on a medical practice booklet because we er hand back a hundred pound for every full page that we we gain in the medical practice booklet , er it 's an encouragement for if we 're just a quarter of a half page short , er for the practice to say you know we 'll get for another hundred quid we 'd all we need to do is make a couple of phone calls and threaten erm one or two of our patients .
3 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 .
4 ‘ We all know there 's no more sorry sight in the world than a lady who 's had a drop too much , but a spoonful or so can be highly medicinal .
5 As a child she had had a piggy bank ; she could recall the physical satisfaction of its jingling weight in her hands .
6 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 .
7 In published series of patients with constipation and irritable bowel syndrome or functional abdominal pain there is an excess of womeh who have had a hysterectomy but this may be because women who are referred to hospital with these disorders tend to be anxious and polysymptomatic .
8 Under the 1944 Education Act they have had a duty to provide this for numerous categories of children : the blind , partially sighted , deaf , partially hearing , physically handicapped , delicate , maladjusted , epileptic , educationally subnormal , children with speech defects , and the autistic .
9 ‘ Ever since he was a boy he has had a fear of them .
10 ‘ Since the Chancellor 's announcement we have had a lot of inquiries which we are confident of turning into sales , ’ says Rover dealer Ashmall Parkinson salesman David Bailey .
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 But of course , in the meanwhile , of course we 've had a flood .
13 Just her regrets about the Rector 's wife who 'd had a miscarriage
14 You never have to tell a person who 's had a heart attack , you never need to tell a woman when her husband has a stroke , I have to .
15 By half-past twelve each day he had had a hunger pain .
16 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 .
17 He 's been on the sauce basically but he 's kicked the habit and he says of kicking the drinking habit I 've had a lot of help and a lot of good counselling , in the end it 's up to me .
18 ( Friend of woman who had had a number of strokes . )
19 ‘ In fact , a peculiarity about this condition is that it seldom if ever occurs in a woman who 's had a baby . ’
20 Let us consider democracy in local government and the three Secretaries of State for the Environment who have had a go at local government taxation .
21 If the postman knocks on the door to delivery the only parcel you 've received in the past three years , you can guarantee it will be at just before eight on the first Saturday morning you 've had a chance to have a proper lie in for months .
22 A man who has had a lot of success in a relatively short space of time — he has been training 15 years — Homer Scott has already had a Liverpool winner .
23 Suddenly angry , Seb said , ‘ You 'd refuse to serve a man who 's had a university education , is respected by everyone he 's met and whose father is acquainted with the Duke of Marlborough .
24 I lifted them early because I did n't want to leave them any longer because they were going to get damaged and they were , they were a wet potato when they came up and they 've cooked wet , so I think that the amount of rainfall you have has a lot to do with it .
25 Of course he 'd had a lot on his mind .
26 In the end I had to have a go !
27 ‘ If I 'm given a challenge I have to have a go at it , ’ he admits , reflecting on the guiding principles that have taken him to the top of two major industries .
28 An adventurer who has had a chunk of his person ripped off by a Skeleton takes 3 Wounds from the blow , in addition to normal damage .
29 Lord Geraint , the former MP who has had a lifetime 's experience as a sheep farmer and dealer , warned however that there were many things to be done again to safeguard the interests of those about to start farming .
30 It 's just that this year I have had a lot of weak influencing situations , been on a lot of projects groups and so on , and last year I needed a lot of extra staff .
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