Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [adv] have [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Youth Club The club had recently had a trip to Beecraigs for a barbecue with Corstorphine Youth Club .
2 Youth Club The club had recently had a trip to Beecraigs for a barbecue with Corstorphine Youth Club .
3 Angel had never had a lesson ; he played as naturally as he walked .
4 Though from the way she remembered it , she had been so eager to be his that shyness had n't had a look in !
5 But back at WHS headquarters , Sir Malcolm seemed unperturbed by the commentaries , pointing out that the group had not had a reduction in profits for ‘ many , many years ’ .
6 His solicitor said Porter 's common law wife had just had a miscarriage .
7 Virgin had never had the profits to squander .
8 Then she told me that during the last winter , while I was in Sweden , my father had already had an attack , but they had not told me .
9 Our father had n't had the cough which racked him .
10 It was a Stavanger tradition to finance their ships by careful management and frugal living for themselves , and through the difficult years between the wars , the firm had never had an overdraft .
11 A monthly on the Third World from a big publishing stable had just had the plug pulled after only the sixth issue .
12 She would have liked to have had that sort of relationship with her own father , only he had died , and her uncle had definitely had no affinity with the great outdoors .
13 The Western world had already had a foretaste of this combination of factors following the price increases in the wake both of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war and of the Iran revolution itself in 1978–79 .
14 Miss Karen Gilroy , organiser of the Northallerton CT Scanner Appeal launched in October 1990 , said she was ‘ disappointed ’ the Friarage Hospital had not had a share of the health department package .
15 But whatever the reason , whether it was that everyone had been so busy reassuring everyone that no one had bothered to talk to the crematorium , whether they had got the time wrong , or whether the vicar had simply had a brainstorm , he now , you could tell , was dimly aware that he had not given an exemplary performance .
16 Rougier J. held that , before the seizure the buyer had already had the car a reasonable length of time for trying it out generally .
17 It was a job he seemed to be going after with a vengeance , despite the fact that the sizzling summer temperatures did n't exactly encourage the use of much firewood , and the lodge had not had a winter season for nearly ten years .
18 The journalist 's solicitor , Mr Geoffrey Bindman , added that he was ‘ very satisfied ’ at the outcome , not only because of the merits of the case but because his client had not had a chance to put his case against Mr Justice Hoffman 's earlier ruling to give up his notes .
19 ‘ There were no sheep in the king 's gardens , ’ explained the bachelor , ‘ because the king 's mother had once had a dream .
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