Example sentences of "[adv] had have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If you were asked which club it was , you just had to have a good reason for choosing it .
2 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 " .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 All the talk after the game is about Gascoigne , but he really had had a marvellous match had n't he ?
6 The glass must have held nearly half a pint and I thought I too had had a splendid day out .
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