Example sentences of "had [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I 'd had the sense to be frank with her last March , maybe I could have done that . |
| 2 | Having been waited on hand and foot for most of his life and had people jump whenever he called , he has never really had the opportunity to be anything else . |
| 3 | If he ( and of course this applies to girls too ) is the oldest child in the family , he will have had the opportunity to be the centre of attention for some time . |
| 4 | Students from all years in Industrial Technology have now had the opportunity to be involved in this kind of interactive evaluation . |
| 5 | I did n't see this as being primarily er a , a reflection on the day as such , although they have n't actually had the opportunity to sort of mull it over . |
| 6 | I ai n't had ch I mean I have n't had the opportunity to erm have a look at it yet . |
| 7 | Have n't had the opportunity to . |
| 8 | I would be inclined to choose Abbado 's COE versions ( DG ) as the finest available recordings of the Fourth and Sixth Symphonies on modern instruments ( or Wand 's on RCA if you really must have full orchestral forces ) , and until now the Hanover Band under Roy Goodman ( Nimbus ) have had the field to themselves , ‘ authentically ’ speaking . |
| 9 | Finn had designed it , when he had had the heart to be pastoral . |
| 10 | All the great hunters and stalkers — whether of white or brown skin — have had the ability to consciously or unconsciously ‘ close down ’ or quieten their mind and body , as well as to conceal their activity while stalking or awaiting their prey . |
| 11 | But the fact of the matter is , he wrote , that none of it is right , or rather , that what has so far been accomplished is wrong and what has not yet been accomplished is only right because it has not yet had the chance to be proved wrong . |
| 12 | It ended : ‘ Nonetheless , I consider myself to have been blessed to have had the chance to so serve for as long as I did . ’ |
| 13 | We feel privileged to have had the chance to be part of such a valuable learning experience . |
| 14 | The first time in weeks that Doyle had had the chance to lazily watch a football match , and almost immediately the phone goes . |
| 15 | Relatively few have had the chance to ‘ acquire ’ the language simply through contact with deaf people in their culture and community . |
| 16 | No , I mean , it would have been fantastic if they 'd had the cash to just get on would n't it ? |
| 17 | Labelling theory implies that criminals are powerless , passive victims who have had the misfortune to be labelled criminal , and have not been able to do anything about it . |
| 18 | He had apparently had the misfortune to be dumped at the end of this bus-queue at the very moment when cinemas , dance-halls and public-houses were spewing forth their patrons on to the pavements . |
| 19 | Donald , who describes himself as a Friend of the Earth , does not himself hold a driving licence , but has taken it upon himself to publish a list of prominent men and women who have had the misfortune to be caught driving over the limit a judge , a chief superintendent , various footballers , actors , television personalities — in what he chooses to call his Hall of Shame : It is the number of celebrities we have discovered that is so shocking . |
| 20 | Miranda did not tell him why she had not had the nerve to buttonhole Meursault again , in a later break in the filming . |
| 21 | Erm my , I have n't had the time to really absorb what is in them and obviously the board would feel the same . |
| 22 | She would not have minded if he had yelled at her , for he would have had the right to . |
| 23 | They had had the forethought to post him in the garden . |
| 24 | The taxi took them off to a small restaurant , and with everywhere seeming crowded to full capacity Fabia guessed , when they were straight away shown to a table , that Ven must have had the forethought to book in advance . |
| 25 | SHOULD Labour Councillors in Eastbourne , whose party has had the area to itself for as long as I can remember , ‘ knock on doors ’ in this area , I hope residents will raise the question of the state of the Neasham Road approach to Darlington , south of the railway bridge , particularly when at this time of year it is a pleasure to approach the town from any other direction . |
| 26 | SHOULD Labour councillors in Eastbourne , whose party has had the area to itself for as long as I can remember , ‘ knock on doors ’ in this area , I hope residents will raise the question of the state of the Neasham Road approach to Darlington , south of the railway bridge , particularly when at this time of year it is a pleasure to approach the town from any other direction . |
| 27 | Men have always had the compulsion to ‘ freeze ’ the memory of important events in pictures . |
| 28 | The Hammonds would have had no defence to an action for the price . |
| 29 | It should be noted that the accused would have had no defence to a charge of obtaining property by deception by switching the price labels . |
| 30 | Which was right be had no resemblance to what is commercially thought of a typecasting in any way — it 's just that the mixture was right with Simon Callow . |