Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably the regret that Flaubert was n't more involved in life is n't just a philanthropic wish for him : if only old Gustave had had a wife and kiddies , he would n't have been so glum about the whole shooting-match ? |
| 2 | Delighted , Benn told a refusenik rally that if the striking miners had had a paper like the Wapping Post they would have won . |
| 3 | Already in Carolingian times the imperial army had had a nucleus of fully trained warriors who served their lord in exchange for holding substantial fiefs . |
| 4 | The long night had had a result ; he was back in control again . |
| 5 | The trees were too close together and the snow-covered gorse seemed to have a life of its own , blocking our passage with its thick stems . |
| 6 | There the rise and swell of incomprehensible Latin seemed to have a grandeur that aroused the spirit of poetry in the Gaels , as if they stood on a rocky shore communing with the waves . |
| 7 | Then the American millionaire had had a heart attack . |
| 8 | Young Vietnamese women seemed to have a fragility that foreigners found irresistible . |
| 9 | Secondly , it was evident that young women did have a number of strategies of resistance . |