Example sentences of "have had [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So much so that even her ‘ father ’ would have had difficulty telling her from the real thing . |
| 2 | Eva would have had difficulty holding the reins , even for such a short time , without wanting to give them a short , sharp jerk occasionally . |
| 3 | ‘ While I might have had difficulty believing you at that particular moment two years ago , it was two years ago . |
| 4 | Usually , these men 's urine flow will be abnormally slow , even in the absence of prostatic enlargement , and they may always have had difficulty urinating in a public place , according to Graham Watson , who runs a prostatitis clinic at the London Institute of Urology . |
| 5 | He was very geared to the principle of being in an indie band for the sake of it and he would have had difficulty signing to a major label on any terms . ’ |
| 6 | Had West Bank society been industrialized , with the social transformation this implies , the Israelis would have had difficulty preventing these mayors from producing a united national leadership . |
| 7 | The Company was not well organized , but even a strong company would have had difficulty resisting the attacks of the Dutch — now at the height of their power — on its forts in West Africa , which began before war had been declared in Europe . |
| 8 | It was n't that I minded Fenella and I could have had fun doing a wind-up on her parents . |
| 9 | I hate to think how much money I have paid over to Anglia Gas if I 'd known what I was into I could have walked into that house then and I could , while I had all that money before I gave any away I could have said , right , I 'm going to have to spend that , that , that , that and that and I would have done it and it would have I would 've been alright because I would n't have had things going wrong ! |
| 10 | After a public haranguing from Atkinson at Highfield Road , the manager adopted a ploy which would have had Ferguson spluttering into his orange juice . |
| 11 | But if the way he treated Professor Liawski was anything to go by , I bet his mother would have had trouble finding something good to say about him . |
| 12 | Nor is it possible to imagine the Regent allowing such a hideous series of plates to be made to commemorate his coronation , though , to be fair , even Regency designers might have had trouble making an elegant plate incorporating a photographic portrait of the old reprobate . |
| 13 | In fact he would have had trouble recalling his own name . |
| 14 | His transport manager must have had nightmares finding parking places for a caravan of that size . |
| 15 | ‘ Maybe he could have had Glastonbury holding the dynamite , ’ said Amiss . |
| 16 | We might have had people staying . |