Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] have [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The detective wondered whether Nicola 's husband was deliberately misleading them or had had a genuine slip of memory .
2 Often , such people never consider that it might be because they are not academically qualified or had had a bad interview ; they automatically blame racism .
3 After that , we drove to the Ming Tombs close by , and stopped to have an enormous picnic which they had packed for us at the Friendship Hotel .
4 But his mother went to the police and tried to have the old custody order enforced .
5 ‘ It was an amazing first set and winning it gave me a big boost and seemed to have the opposite effect on David , ’ said Corsie later .
6 Presbyterians retained a consciousness of their Scottish origins and came to have a significant presence in the local economy and finance institutions , predominating in the North and East .
7 … for all those unfortunate and aged people the institution of the poor law did provide some genuine relief , especially in small communities where the poor were personally known and acknowledged to have a legitimate claim on the assistance of their neighbours .
8 She had a windfall of money and decided to have a new career .
9 I was walking through a Wirral village and decided to have a soft drink in a pub to cool off .
10 He was not specific and appeared to have no other projects in hand .
11 Similarly , a garment originally designed with one type of sleeve could be loaded from disk and altered to have a different sleeve type , or a sweater could be converted to a cardigan .
12 I had managed it and had had a golden Stuttgart .
13 At that time I was working for the LNER on the Tyneside electrified lines , and had had a gentle hint from my then boss that he would like to know what Mr Rostron was up to .
14 Dave was in the property business , and had had a baddish time during the recession .
15 Because she seemed a nice woman and had had a nice mother , with whom she seemed to get on well .
16 He even embellished the story in a flood of fluent German , explaining that they had captured the British truck and had had a hard time of it at the front .
17 Clare looked incredibly fit and had had a wonderful time .
18 Olazabal , unshaven , was suffering from a headache and fever and had had a sleepless night .
19 The evidence suggested that Bridge had worked in only one of the departments of what was a very substantial firm and had had no professional contact with the work of other departments .
20 Later , however , she resisted the creditor 's attempts to enforce the security on the ground , first , that the document was void as being an unregistered bill of sale and , secondly , that she had been procured to sign by her husband 's undue influence and had had no independent advice .
21 But in each case the wife lacked a full understanding of the security transaction into which she had entered and had had no independent advice .
22 Derek Keys was appointed the new Minister of Finance , but retained the Trade and Industry portfolio , and continued to have the specific responsibility for economic co-ordination .
23 The Royal Victoria patriotic Building in Wandsworth , having suffered dreadfully from a fire , was sold for just £1 and considered to have no possible use .
24 In summary , acute cigarette smoking caused a significant fall in Vg but seemed to have no significant effect upon transpyloric fluid shifts .
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