Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] have have a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's the second time in twenty-four hours I 've had a swim in that damned water . |
| 2 | During the hot summers I 've had a lot of lettuce and tomato with maybe a bit of fruit . |
| 3 | As the project progressed , it was also harder to find schools which fitted the original criteria for Minors , e.g. one library division had been fortunate in finding Majors , but began to find it difficult to identify , for Minor recommendation , " schools which have had a degree of interest and success for some years " . |
| 4 | Over the last few months we 've had a number of queries from hobbyists concerning fish which they have bought for their community tanks , which despite advice from their dealer , have turned out to be most unsuitable for such a set up . |
| 5 | B : ‘ For about nine months we have had a succession of builders , surveyors and decorators trooping in and out . |
| 6 | By the end of six months he had had a breakdown and was asked to leave . |
| 7 | But in the last few months he 's had a lot to cope with following the death of his best friend in a road accident . |
| 8 | Over the years I have had an interest in medical matters and have been involved from a legal viewpoint on a number of occasions . |
| 9 | For years I have had an interest in phenomenology , the attempt to get behind , understand and interpret the way others see the world . |
| 10 | In five years we 've had a record of seven per cent success in any enquiry involving the Regal Arms . |
| 11 | And for two thousand years we have had a government not our own . |
| 12 | One mentioned her skill at communicating with patients who had had a tracheostomy and another found that she could lip-read patients when nobody else could understand them . |
| 13 | One of the UC patients who had had an ileostomy had mild non-specific inflammatory changes histologically ( but no symptoms ) , but the ileal mucosa was histologically normal in all other cases . |
| 14 | Another type of specialist nurse deals solely with patients who have had a mastectomy . |
| 15 | The Princess had said she particularly wanted to meet mothers who had had a treatment known as chorionic villus biopsy , which was a very exciting breakthrough . |
| 16 | Amongst those men who had had a job immediately before registration , the coming to an end of a temporary job was the most important reason for their becoming unemployed . |
| 17 | The present study examines both indigenous and Asian businesses and isolates factors which have had an impact on present size , structure and performance . |
| 18 | Some agencies are particularly keen to attract nurses who have had a break in practice and provide reorientation for new staff . |
| 19 | In the one such study reported , 91 women who had had a hysterectomy were more likely than age matched controls to report infrequent defecation and to have consulted a doctor for constipation . |
| 20 | Women who had had a hysterectomy tended to defecate less often than the uterus intact controls . |
| 21 | Women who had had a hysterectomy had an increased prevalence of bloating , incomplete evacuation , and straining to finish , but no difference with respect to pain , mucus , urgency or runny stools ( Table II ) . |
| 22 | Sandra Cooper , 33 , midwife and founder of the Darlington Miscarriage Association , said : ‘ Women who have had a miscarriage experience grief but they have no record of their unborn child . |
| 23 | Sandra Cooper , 33 , midwife and founder of the Darlington Miscarriage Association , said : ‘ Women who have had a miscarriage experience grief but they have no record of their unborn child . |
| 24 | Colleagues I 've had a message from the strikers at Crawley and they 've had to return . |