Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] to have a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1	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 .
2	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 .
3	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 .
4	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 .
5	" 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 .
6	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 .
7	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 .
8	They had agreed to have a final drink after Duncan had unpacked .
9	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 .
10	My parents had hoped to have a large family , but when I was born Mamma needed a Caesarean section .
11	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 .

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