Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this stage I stopped searching to have a little think . |
| 2 | All reported having had a wonderful day and causing much comment and amusement wherever they went . |
| 3 | And having l your mother and father left er , your parents had left you with such low money in the early stages you could n't In any case you could n't My friend was a nurse , but you 'd got to have a special background . |
| 4 | Now she 'd got to have a double punishment , still she would soon put it about that Elissia and Daryl had planted the spider in Mary- Lou 's desk . |
| 5 | She wanted to eat her cake and have it , put Georg away in a little box for the future , when she 'd finished having a good time . |
| 6 | In some ways , thought Henry , the man with whom Donald had been confused seemed to have had a better time of it . |
| 7 | Green was all for restoring Lord 's Island which seemed to have had a strange fascination for him , as it has for the present writer who has also , found for herself , the vestiges of the pier , the house , the shooting butts , etc . |
| 8 | Three shadow boxes Monday 's deaths column recorded the passing of Chris Hunter , who for donkeys years or so it seemed had had a sweet shop between our house and the football ground in Shildon . |
| 9 | Maradona scored against England in 1986 , accused of handling the ball he claimed to have had a little help from high places ( see remote control and questionable decisions ) . |
| 10 | The early dimetrodon , as we have seen , did appear to have a cooling device on its back , with the spines helping to increase the creature 's surface-to-mass ratio . |
| 11 | Mr Benton said : ‘ Read 's did seem to have a bright future as long as they could overcome short term cash difficulties . |
| 12 | He did investigate having a public enquiry there last year . |
| 13 | He had expected to have a little chat with his boy , but the headmaster had explained that he had been put to bed early because he had an important French test the next day . |
| 14 | It soon became clear that he had enjoyed having a free hand with Frank . |
| 15 | Committed to the cult of the workers as ‘ disinterested ’ opponents of militarism , they generally remained silent about the degree to which workers themselves had come to have a vested interest in the arms race . |
| 16 | " English " , then , by the first decade of the new century , had come to have a multi-faceted character due to its variation of role within the new provincial colleges , Oxbridge , and the national system of schooling . |
| 17 | Seven other individuals , not related to his family , who had come to have a high regard for Beattie over the years among them were three or four Roman Catholics , including a man whom he had helped to find a new house after he and his wife had been intimidated out of their home by the Provisional IRA . |
| 18 | It was as though the wind and tide had decided to have a good rest having expended all its fury achieving the high water mark . |
| 19 | They had agreed to have a final drink after Duncan had unpacked . |
| 20 | Her idea had been rather startling , even silly , but she had wanted to have a black crepe dress and bangles and a tent , and to tell fortunes . |
| 21 | My parents had hoped to have a large family , but when I was born Mamma needed a Caesarean section . |
| 22 | One Saturday morning she had waited for an hour and a half outside the dentist 's where he had gone to have a troublesome tooth fixed . |
| 23 | This had become an automatic response to most of his wife 's suggestions , and Scarlet had learned to have a few answers ready . |