Example sentences of "have had the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even mother must have had the odd twinge , incredible as it seems . |
| 2 | Helen , shuffling through them , remembered Louise in the churchyard : even mother must have had the odd twinge … |
| 3 | The speaker feels — and do n't we all ? — that if he had been around then he might have had the good fortune to cut a greater dash in the subject than he is succeeding in doing in present circumstances . |
| 4 | They may have had the unsettling experience of living in three different households — the original family , an interim family with only one parent — and the newly-formed stepfamily . |
| 5 | We got here in the nick of time or we would have had the rotten table otherwise . |
| 6 | It is remarkable , when you think of what most of us philosophers are like , that he should have had the sheer ability and integrity to elicit such a response from people of such political eminence . |
| 7 | No archbishop but Fisher would have had the administrative ability or the tenacity to achieve the end . |
| 8 | The marriage of Chlothild , therefore , may not have had the ominous implications which the bishop of Tours attributed to it . |
| 9 | In the near-famine of 1795 , champions of the market economy would have had the poor starve and let mobs of hungry peasants loose on the countryside . |
| 10 | Would he have had the inventive capacity , the command of idiom ? |
| 11 | Had I been asked to imagine myself as I would have looked during that time , you can be sure that I would have had the beautiful gown , the ruffled frill and the bejewelled fingers of a lady . |
| 12 | Ana came out of the pool at that moment and it was a good job she could n't see or her face would not have had the happy smile . |
| 13 | I would have been its curator , and would have had the top floor to myself ’ . |
| 14 | Er indeed the directive was promulgated as the minister said but I do n't think it was a bolt out of the blue , it was of course something that we around for some considerable time before that and of course that excuse hardly applies to the delay in establishing the European parliamentary constituency committees , er as the minister er will know very well , it was merely a matter of seven weeks , er the excuse being that had they had another seven weeks they could have had the public inquiry stage , the reality of course was that there was plenty of time to do this in good time and in good order and without the confusion that exists now er around the candidatures and the boundaries of the existing European boundaries . |
| 15 | Psalm 48.12–13 bears witness to a similar procession round the walls of Jerusalem , though in the case of Jericho it would have had the particular significance of a celebration of God 's gift of the Land and conquest achieved with his might . |
| 16 | There 's an interesting historical paradox in the impact of AIDS on the gay community because without the existence of an international gay community I do n't think AIDS as a disease could have had the rapid impact it 's had on gay men . |
| 17 | Indeed , it may well have had the indirect , beneficial effect of encouraging the search for better methods . |
| 18 | Although most of the adjustments Valuev proposed to the statutes of emancipation appeared to favour the gentry at the expense of the peasantry , one of them , the abolition of the peasant commune , might have had the opposite effect , and none of them was designed to turn the clock back . |
| 19 | Enoch Powell later cited this indication of my position as a kind of pledge from which , when events turned out as they did , I should have had the whole Cabinet 's leave formally to withdraw . |
| 20 | I always knew I was adopted , so why could n't I have had the whole truth ? |
| 21 | The women in the ranks were generally accustomed to hard manual labour with scythes and ploughs and would have had the physical strength and tenacity to wield weapons . |