Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [adv] have a [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 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 ‘ 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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