Example sentences of "had [pron] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd had my first experience with American enterprise . |
| 2 | Q I 've just had my first perm and I 'm a bit disappointed that my hair has lost its shine . |
| 3 | ‘ Not until after I 've had my first sip of coffee , ’ she said . |
| 4 | I had just had my forty-first birthday and had been going through a very unhappy time , not eating properly because I was economizing so much , and becoming properly run down . |
| 5 | The issue is the key feature of the Human and Embryology Bill which has just had its second reading in the House of Lords . |
| 6 | This month Evans has had its second downgrading of the year . |
| 7 | Here Sir Edmond 's parents had been buried , and here the School had probably had its first home . |
| 8 | It has already had its first prime-time telly airing ( Brookside — Tracy Corkhill and her form master ) and like incest , pre-Cleveland , it is being talked of as a hidden social scandal . |
| 9 | Mecca , F8b± , has had its fifth ascent from Robin Barker . |
| 10 | She 'd had her first transfusions and was preparing to go to the hospital for her next one when world events took over . |
| 11 | She was aware that her mother had already had her first drink , and was on to her second , if not third glass of wine , if the bottle was anything to go by . |
| 12 | CHELSEA Clinton has had her first taste of what it is to be a president 's daughter . |
| 13 | She was Manisha , a Muslim girl of twenty from Sylhet , and had just had her second child . |
| 14 | Claire Bartel ( Sciorra ) has just had her second baby and needs a nanny so she can get on with her hobby of building a greenhouse . |
| 15 | In contrast , if a wife has had her sixtieth birthday but her husband has not yet reached 65 ( or has decided to defer his retirement ) , she must wait until her husband retires to receive her share of the married couple 's pension . |
| 16 | For a couple marrying in 1860 , the wife was 40 before she had had her last child , while in 1930 , the corresponding stage would have been reached before the wife was 30 . |
| 17 | TAKA and Mari , a pair of gibbons , both at least 31 years old , have had their 29th baby and could win a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the world 's most prolific monkey parents , said a vet at a zoo in Hyogo , Japan . |
| 18 | Though the firms eventually chose America 's General Dynamics ( having had their second choice , McDonnell Douglas , and their first choice , going it alone , overruled by the Japanese government ) , the group also looked at the Panavia Tornado , the Anglo-American Harrier it and the Swedish Gripen . |
| 19 | Arthur said he 'd never had their second message , and the fuss all died down , but he 's always come when we 've sent for him . ’ |
| 20 | It was quite a busy week , going to the concerts and the theatre and visiting friends again , as well as seeing some we had n't managed to see earlier , such as Maria and Mike who 'd just had their second baby , and Robert ( Easting ) and Christine who had also just had a baby . |
| 21 | Some black children may have had their first experience of Jamaican Creole from reggae lyrics , while others may have been attracted to Creole for the first time because of the music . |
| 22 | They 'd only been married months , I thought they 'd had their first row and she 'd come home . |
| 23 | Dismissive of the ‘ corridor opportunites ’ , he fails to mention that , so far , the Foreign Secretaries of the UK and Argentina have had their first meeting since the 1982 Falklands War , that the Israeli and Soviet Foreign Ministers have got together as has the US Secretary of State with his Israeli and Egyptian counterparts , or that the two German Foreign Ministers have held extensive talks on the current crisis — all with apparently good results : quite useful when several of these countries have no diplomatic relations with each other . |
| 24 | It 's something of a comedown for the band who 've just had their first taste of the big time supporting Peter Gabriel in Europe . |
| 25 | It 's something of a comedown for the band who 've just had their first taste of the big time supporting Peter Gabriel in Europe . |
| 26 | During the past twenty years , many hymns and songs have had their first circulation in large annual gatherings for events like Spring Harvest . |
| 27 | BOBBY BROWN and Whitney Houston have had their first lover 's tiff … over a pair of pet pooches . |
| 28 | The twins had had their tenth birthday in the holidays and George was eleven . |
| 29 | Well she goes June come on , could have had it next Friday I think something must be happening next Friday , she goes to Australia on the seventh well maybe that is next Friday Oh no it 's the is n't it ? |
| 30 | Instead Rory had found out only when Ken had had his first story published , and now it was as though they were passing each other travelling in opposite directions ; Ken slowly but surely building up a reputation as a children 's story-teller while his own supposed career as a professional recounter of traveller 's tales sank gradually in the west . |