Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [adv] have a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last revellers had finally been seen off at nine in the morning ; they and Margot had done some cleaning up before going to bed , though Ken had anyway had a couple of hours ' sleep between three and five , when he 'd fallen into a deep slumber on the wicker couch in the conservatory . |
| 2 | Lissa had n't had a photograph for me to flash , but had described him as looking ‘ a lot like you , Mr Quick , a lot like you ’ . |
| 3 | Once Dolly and Gertrude had been in the back row of the chorus at the Palladium , and Gertrude had even had a solo spot with a comic song … he had seen a photo of her somewhere as Burlington Bertie … |
| 4 | This country was bankrupt , and had to borrow money from the United States of America to keep going , and er , Russia had just had a revolution and was still in chaos . |
| 5 | But the UK had never had a product like this and they needed it , ’ says John Bartic , visiting professor at Strathclyde University and joint chief executive of Bartle Bogle Hegarty ( BBH ) , the agency appointed to handle the launch and subsequent roll-out . |
| 6 | On the 1st of January " in that year Sir Daniel had also had a letter from a Robert Tolson about the leasing of his copper mines . |
| 7 | The doctor did not tell the family that Esther had probably had a stroke , for fear of alarming them . |
| 8 | Emily had never had a head for figures , and her brother-in-law , Marcus Judge , had kept an eye on her finances from the beginning , gradually acquiring a controlling interest in the business . |
| 9 | If Quigley had ever had a chance of regaining his grip on the First Spiritualist Church of South Wimbledon , he had lost all hope of it now . |
| 10 | Chris 's sister-in-law loved the baby and when he died she was so upset she told Chris that little Tommy had never had a chance . |
| 11 | Joanna Lumley had always had a passion , as she put it , for Dirk Bogarde ; Dustin Hoffman was a fan of Sting ; John Lennon had been a great Monty Python fan , and so Yoko was delighted to meet John Cleese . |
| 12 | In fact , she reminded herself , since they had been children Mandy had always had a knack for getting her sombre cousin , normally something of a goody-two-shoes , into a great deal of trouble . |
| 13 | He said , nearly 40pc ( 518 ) of young people on the dole in Darlington had not had a job for over half a year and one sixth ( 217 ) had not worked for over a year . |
| 14 | Prosecutor Nigel Rumfitt said : ‘ Aylaus had previously had a number of taped telephone conversations with Mr Ray Levine , a reporter with The People . |
| 15 | Harvey had always had a mania for showers and baths and he had taken to the sauna ritual with great enthusiasm . |
| 16 | Johanna had also had a tiff with her boyfriend . |
| 17 | Pamela had nearly had a heart attack when she 'd looked at this year 's brochure and seen how much it would cost . |
| 18 | The Jew is nothing more than a popular villain ( bear in mind that Marlowe had just had a success with The Jew Of Malta ) . |
| 19 | Gary had always had a heart for Switzerland and as he read that verse at Spring Harvest he knew that Switzerland was the place . |
| 20 | Liza had always had a tendency to wildness . |
| 21 | Mr Kronweiser had just had a letter from his departmental head , a man whose word made or marred men 's careers , a man almost as sensitive to fashionable currents as roly-poly Dwight himself . |
| 22 | Bodie had always had a passion for the woman , and he smiled , eyes narrowed and watching appreciatively , as she walked towards him . |
| 23 | But before we jump to the conclusion that Pound had simply had a brainstorm , or had been trapped by misplaced compassion for Dunning as a lame duck , we ought to consider another possibility — that imagism , and Pound 's endorsement of Ford 's insistence on ‘ the prose tradition ’ , had never been for him more than an aberration , though in the short term a very profitable one , from a way of feeling that impelled him always toward the cantabile , a proclivity that would , in the interests of melody , tolerate notably eccentric diction . |
| 24 | Far from being popular , Hatton had evidently had a host of enemies . |