Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] have [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In spite of the strangeness of Eliot 's behaviour , however , few people begrudged him the happiness which in personal relations he had never experienced before : " He obviously needed to have a happy marriage , " Valerie Eliot said on a later occasion , " He could n't die until he had had it " . |
2 | It rejected the idea that the associated companies which together did have a countrywide business were in any way relevant . |
3 | She only had to have the usual amount of arms and legs and to be able to see where she was going . |
4 | ‘ I just came to have a little talk to you . |
5 | If you were asked which club it was , you just had to have a good reason for choosing it . |
6 | suddenly thought you still got to have a little holdall membership forms in it , have n't you ? |
7 | ‘ Owen always seemed to have an enormous amount of mail at Stratford and would come straight from the stage door to the green room , clutching a handful of letters which he would clasp to his body in a special way which I had n't realised he did until I started drawing this picture and could n't work out what to do with the arms . |
8 | DARLINGTON Health Authority yesterday pledged to have a special unit for leukaemia patients open and fully staffed by August . |
9 | The Leeds manager always appeared to have a slight reservation about the gifted Frenchman 's ability to adapt to England . |
10 | Let Spencer help you , my dear , my youngest son always did have a good head for figures . ’ |
11 | ‘ You always did have a gallant streak , Jimmie , ’ Randall said , skirting the crowd . |
12 | In such circumstances what the doctors can not do is to conclude that if the patient still had had the necessary capacity in the changed situation he would have reversed his decision . |
13 | James Sandoe , a fine American critic of crime fiction , once said of the typical private-eye that , although there was no specific reason for it , somehow he always had to have a shabby office with " shabby restaurant nearby serving leaden eggs and greasy bacon " . |
14 | I once had to have the gnomic response of one respected editor of a major journal interpreted for me by a senior colleague . |
15 | Barton means literally ‘ barley farm ’ or ‘ corn farm ’ , but later came to have the special meaning of ‘ demesne farm ’ . |
16 | He also appeared to have an intense hatred of black people for no reason . |
17 | He also denied having the broken bottle . |
18 | The fourth John Booth founded another major firm in partnership with John Hartop and George Binks , whose own families also had had a long involvement in the local metal trades . |
19 | It would n't do just to have straight furrows : a good ploughman also had to have a good top to the stetch — the furrows lying all flat and even . |
20 | She now began to have the strange experience of finding herself taking part in the life of the Holy Family . |
21 | Ferngrove Park , with its woods and meadows and deep thickets full of secret nooks and crannies , was a place where the Brownies really did have a grand time . |
22 | She really did have a long way to go , and she had not yet learned to recognise the precise lineaments , the demeanour and the shape of the shadow of Stan . |
23 | In the end , I really did have a good time at College . |
24 | they really did have a proper scheme and you were paid a sort of reasonable wage |
25 | I did n't really believe it at first , er , and then I received couple or more phone calls from er various people in the industry who er , who were aware of it and started to congratulate me , and then I realised that it was the truth , that er I really did have a big hit record once again with Blue Velvet . |
26 | All the talk after the game is about Gascoigne , but he really had had a marvellous match had n't he ? |
27 | Sorry to sound a little perverse on that issue , but I , we really wanted to have a clear indication of what you felt as District Planning Officers , er an and indeed we 'll hear what the County feel and in fact have pursued through this alteration , but can I again , just for clarification , and in fact it 's a sort of final head count , er and again I raise this in the context of P P G three paragraph thirty three , and that is the degree of acceptability , or otherwise , by the local planning authorities , erm and I only need a nod from you , or otherwise , for the record . |
28 | At one moment he even seemed to have a small advantage , but after 44 moves a draw was agreed in a level position . |
29 | People , their understandings of their circumstances and their struggles to force collective facilities out of the state , were again under-conceptualised and , indeed , even seemed to have a small role to play . |
30 | In 1936 a patient , thought to be suffering from schizophrenia , was found to have abnormal activity in the EEG and then discovered to have a cerebral tumour . |