Example sentences of "[vb past] have a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clinic you mentioned has a very good reputation . ’ |
| 2 | On this occasion , as an added piquancy , the festival promised to have a distinctly radical flavour . |
| 3 | Perhaps they 'd had a little more time . |
| 4 | Since childhood she 'd had a quite irrational dread of spiders . |
| 5 | Mrs Clinton replied that she 'd been at college with him and they 'd had a very close relationship . |
| 6 | In the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the Law Merchant , apart from maritime law and prize law ( see p. 40 ) , was absorbed into the Common Law ; thus the law of such matters as Bills of Exchange came to be part of the law of the land , and came to have a specially English character . |
| 7 | There can also be little doubt that the devotional revolution had a significant impact on the life of local catholic communities , especially as social life came to have a very strong relationship to the local parish and its priests . |
| 8 | In later years Nietzsche came to have a more favourable attitude to these aspects of classical studies , but for the time being his dissatisfaction was almost unqualified . |
| 9 | ‘ They seemed to have a pretty good idea about what it might be . |
| 10 | Gooch recalled playing against Waqar at Chelmsford : ‘ The first impression was that he seemed to have a very long run-up but he is obviously a very fine fast bowler with the ability to swing , particularly the old ball . ’ |
| 11 | Mr Wopsle hesitated , and we all began to have a rather bad opinion of him . |
| 12 | She began to have a very bad feeling about the whole thing . |
| 13 | In any case occupying them was of little interest to the Spanish authorities , for the islands the English settled had a much smaller area than Jamaica , the smallest and least developed of the Spanish islands ; later on , after it had been taken from the Spanish , Jamaica was the most important of the English Caribbean islands , but this only serves to show how small the English settlements were . |
| 14 | On this picture , the cloud of material from which our Solar System formed had a very unusual history , taking as long as 4.6 thousand million years to travel from one spiral arm to the next and then taking several hundred million years to pass through the compressed region of the Galaxy , the arm itself . |
| 15 | He did sound so very sure of himself — and , now that she came to look at it , the wallet she was handing over so meekly did have a distinctly masculine air … |
| 16 | It did have a most beautiful sleeve , a yellow tint vision of a young Pat Phoenix , a product of Morrissey 's youthful Coronation Street obsession . |
| 17 | We did have a very broad search , ’ adds Whittaker . |
| 18 | But they did have a very clear idea of how they wanted the house to look and resigned themselves to living with the mess while they tackled it room by room . |
| 19 | He did have a very hard time which we , as children , could not understand … they took care of Richard as you know but my mother also had to look after the children left in 2 Dan-y-bont , Pontrhydyfen , travelling there at least twice a week on two separate buses with Richard , a two-year-old , in tow . |
| 20 | Na er well of course I 'm seve seventy nine but I can still remember most of it and I did have a very bad time ! |
| 21 | And there were times indeed , I think , that the effect of the very strong resistance to public-expenditure cuts and then the promulgation of an alternative economic strategy , which I myself was much concerned with , did have a very considerable effect . |
| 22 | It was n't much of a smile , but it did have a faintly superior tinge to it and Lydia began to feel better . |
| 23 | He was n't even the first to tell Ferrari he 'd be back one day with a car to beat him , but the laconic Texan did have a more-than-usually colourful way of putting it . |
| 24 | People came from all over Britain — from a quiet Scottish village to the suburbs of Manchester — but everyone appeared to have a relatively comfortable background . |
| 25 | I asked had a very heated discussion erm where I si wanting to be having the careers teachers in and working with the forms etcetera and doing it , the er job wise and he would n't entertain at all |
| 26 | He had had a pretty good life . |
| 27 | I at once thought that the poor fellow had had a pretty rough day and had gone to sleep as he had n't made a sound . |
| 28 | She had had a wickedly subtle conversation with him , a very enquiring one , but he had n't given a thing away . |
| 29 | It was apparent to Cassie that the discovery that she wore very little beneath her outer clothing had had a powerfully erotic effect upon him , and now he pushed aside the bodice and gazed at her breast , at the same time remarking appreciatively : ‘ You 're an astonishing girl , Cassie . |
| 30 | In , his reading aloud had proved to be successful except for a couple of occasions when he had had a particularly stressful day and had found it exceedingly difficult to relax . |