Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [adv] have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She insisted on having wine with the meal , and as I had n't had a drink in a long time , it made me feel rather tipsy . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd had one drink but I would have taken the same stand if I had n't had a drink at all . |
| 3 | I had n't had a benny for a few days actually |
| 4 | I had n't had a lot of luck finding the man I wanted , but at least I 'd been getting up to date on my social exercises , like who was drinking with who , and in what bars . |
| 5 | I married Clive because Mummy told me he was suitable for me , and I had n't had a letter from Felipe for a long time … |
| 6 | I had n't had a shot in minutes . |
| 7 | It was a reasonably clear evening and since I had already had a couple of glasses of champagne I decided to cycle over to Sally 's flat in Fulham . |
| 8 | I have to confess that I saved up for a portable television before I saved up for a washing machine , but then my priorities may have been different if I had not had a laundrette opposite the front door . |
| 9 | But I had not had a winner since December 27 when Mr Entertainer won at Kempton Park , and many of my horses had been sick . ’ |
| 10 | If I had not had a sensation which resembles my present sensation I could not assert , ‘ My sensation is a sensation of white ’ with the same meaning as it would have if I had had a sensation resembling it . |
| 11 | I was what I felt unconsciously I had never had a chance to be : a little girl . |
| 12 | As one recently retired 62-year-old put it : ‘ I had hardly had a chance to enjoy a couple of days pottering in the garden for the first time in years , when my wife was nagging me to go out and find something to do . |
| 13 | Yesterday she had n't had a chance to look properly . |
| 14 | ‘ She said she had n't had a drink in 10 days . |
| 15 | She had n't had a headache today , in spite of the thundery heat . |
| 16 | She had not had a chance to mention it to Charlotte Hanover before their … their contretemps of the other night , and assumed that he would have the decency to realize that she would not , in any case , want him to accompany her now . |
| 17 | She had also had a pot plant on the chest called David . |
| 18 | You would never have believed that she had ever had a problem in that area . |
| 19 | She was blonde , like his Mandy , except unlike Mandy she had never had a chance in life . |
| 20 | She did not tell them she had never had a job , had been supported by a husband she had left . |
| 21 | But Miss Blagden , whom I met by chance yesterday , is going to Rome and when I told her the absurdity of your request she volunteered to carry your ridiculous weapon saying she had always had a fancy to be a gun-runner and that it would be a tale to tell her friends and astonish them . |
| 22 | Particularly if you had just had a row with your wife , and rather suspected that you were in the wrong . |
| 23 | ‘ You had better have a word with my husband , ’ Mrs Smith said , and indicated that they should go through into the drawing-room . |
| 24 | And er we had a plan for to build a building with er dressing accommodation and er this was gon na cost seven thousand pound when we could n't face it , we thought that there were far more important things to deal with than that when we had housing , we had just had a housing report which said that two thousand houses in the town were not up to the modern standard . |
| 25 | On average , we met for three hours every ten days , constantly revising , exchanging and criticising so that in the end we had both had a hand in everything . |
| 26 | We switched off everything , I 'm sure , and we had n't had a fire in the grate for days . |
| 27 | I remember not too long ago we had nt had a striker who scored 20+ goals since the Revie days . |
| 28 | And if she had n't brought those stupid letters , if they had n't had a row about them , it could have been fun working with him . |
| 29 | They were pleased to have a nurse you see cos they had n't had a nurse . |
| 30 | A successful street collection in Neston raised £154.73 for the society and they had also had a membership drive with the Heartbeat Campaign on the last weekend of October . |