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

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1 When we were talking just now before the programme started I think you said that you were n't sure that you 'd had a great deal of contact with the university one way or another , but surely you 've been surrounded by university people ?
2 Surely , after the wonderful night of passion she had experienced with Ross , they 'd had a real chance of mending their relationship ?
3 And he 'd tell me stories or sing to me , and sometimes , after he 'd had a good tumblerful of whisky , he 'd slide his hand up my shorts and stroke my thigh .
4 He does n't have to do anything , but about four Christmas 's ago I had the whole lot down , I had nine of us for the whole Christmas week , erm , Boxing Day I went in the kitchen , two of Diane 's friends had arrived , who lived in London and I went in the kitchen , I 'd had a bad dose of the flu virus that was
5 But this morning she caught me unawares before I 'd had a single cup of coffee .
6 We 'd had a huge rally of 10,000 people for Ronald Reagan at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas and I was flying on to Los Angeles with one of the co-ordinators the next morning .
7 It was as if he 'd had a sudden glimpse of a side of himself he did n't know , a side that was dark and uncontrolled .
8 Devon Malcolm was not sparing himself on a pitch which was offering help to all the bowlers but Waugh seemed to have a ridiculous amount of time to ease him through the leg field twice in an over for two of his 10 boundaries .
9 He seemed to have a solid grasp of what it 's really like to live in one of these estates .
10 When he met him in the office , or on the stairs , his habitually offensive glance seemed to have a new dimension of thoughtfulness .
11 Then came more accidents — we seemed to have a large number of accidents in the 1950s and early 1960s and many of them finished up as public inquiries .
12 She seemed to have a natural gift of dignity . "
13 ‘ Owen always seemed to have an enormous amount of mail at Stratford and would come straight from the stage door to the green room , clutching a handful of letters which he would clasp to his body in a special way which I had n't realised he did until I started drawing this picture and could n't work out what to do with the arms .
14 After two hours of fishing Peter hooked a large eel which he felt had an excellent chance of winning the £100 prize .
15 The people I knew had a terrific dread of it , and they very rightly dreaded it .
16 ‘ You got to have a good pair of legs and a good pair of lungs to go up there .
17 Yet even so , the dispensary was busy every day , and we did have a great deal of work , dealing with the humdrum , everyday ailments — yaws , measles , ‘ flu and accidents — accepted by the Polynesians with a philosophical resignation , as though they were saying , ‘ This is the price we pay for living in paradise . ’
18 The restored Stuarts did not have to deal with any difficulty of this sort but they did have a general problem of making sure that the King 's authority was accepted .
19 Its bed and furniture were entirely homely , however , and perhaps not as dainty as the elegant young French lady might like , but it did have a nice view of the hustle and bustle of Newington Butts , and Mrs Beavis always reckoned that if you could see life going on from your window , you could n't grumble too much about not having dainty furniture .
20 Now we did have a little bit of that , I would say er leave it leave it till you 've got the other stuff pretty well sorted out .
21 ‘ And I loved you from the moment I walked into the factory , even if you did have a false impression of me .
22 However inadequate his predictions proved in the twentieth century , Marx 's appeal remains incomprehensible unless it is recognized that he did have an unsurpassed grasp of nineteenth-century capitalism .
23 In place of agonizing doubt and uncertainty , he appeared to have a clear sense of direction .
24 The shadow appeared to have an extensive knowledge of dolmens and their whereabouts .
25 The Doctor appeared to have an innate sense of direction .
26 We never discovered her real name , but she ran a small cafe down in the village and she appeared to have an inexhaustible supply of eggs .
27 He also appeared to have an intense hatred of black people for no reason .
28 When Werner heard of our filming plans he took us back to his bungalow , where he proved to have a superb cook of his own , a staggering collection of ethnographic art , and an intimate knowledge of the islands .
29 Tasks based on road , town , London tube and contour maps proved to have a wide range of success rates .
30 Since Rosie 's return to the Watermen , Patrick had had a new lease of life .
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