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 | Ted , 51 — now trained in law and first aid — said : ‘ As a cleaner I 've had an insight into what goes on in the cells . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | As a child she had had a piggy bank ; she could recall the physical satisfaction of its jingling weight in her hands . |
| 7 | It was then we lost our guide , who was called to help a Bulgarian who 'd had an accident . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Any parent who has had an insomniac or hyperactive child will know the situation in which interruption of sleep over a long period frays tempers and seeks some other scapegoat than the child ; husband and wife may end in screaming at each other across the bedroom . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Ever since he was a boy he has had a fear of them . |
| 13 | He 's out of his mind in case you 've had an accident or something , but he could n't come after you because he was due back at the hospital for a clinic . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ In case she 'd had an accident or something ? ’ suggested Dalziel sympathetically . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But of course , in the meanwhile , of course we 've had a flood . |
| 18 | Just her regrets about the Rector 's wife who 'd had a miscarriage … |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | By half-past twelve each day he had had a hunger pain . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ( Friend of woman who had had a number of strokes . ) |
| 24 | ‘ In fact , a peculiarity about this condition is that it seldom if ever occurs in a woman who 's had a baby . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ What I saw was n't anything like those little dark blue things , ’ commented Jane , a rather shy young woman who has had an experience with an alien . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | That morning he 'd had an hour at a training centre ( ’ not just a fleeting photo opportunity ’ ) ; in the street he was collared by an elderly chap about the price of Guinness and tried in vain to stick a Vote For Me sticker on a recalcitrant toddler . |
| 29 | A major trend which has had an effect on family life is the growth in the number of working women . |
| 30 | 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 . |