Example sentences of "to have had a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd loved her mother devotedly , and had married at twenty — surely too young to have had a past ? |
| 2 | But that end you ought to have had a firm , if not wholly clear idea of from the earliest thought you gave to your story . |
| 3 | As for the East , it is a curiosity that Egypt , from which almost all of the rest of the evidence emanates , seems to have had a preference for using a joint clause of damnatio and fideicommissum . |
| 4 | Even if the convert claims to have had a dream or religious experience , it is likely ( although perhaps not inevitable ) that it fitted in with a world-view with which he was previously acquainted ( through either the written or the spoken word ) , or else , that his experience will be interpreted by a believer in his new world-view . |
| 5 | ‘ When I look at it logically , it would have been a bit selfish for me to have had a child . |
| 6 | The Verona instrument is said to have had a soundboard label , now lost , giving the date 1777 . |
| 7 | Jean-Claude insisted to me more than once that to trans-pose Le Grand Meaulnes it was essential to have had a childhood like his own . |
| 8 | Let me tell you something , Mam : I 'd have been happy to have had a bastard and to have taken my chance on never being married . |
| 9 | Erm which I think was , disappointed dad because erm I think he would like to have had a word with him . |
| 10 | The CNAA made ‘ a tacit political bargain with the DES … for the CNAA to have had a dagger in its hand and kill off the government scheme would not have done ’ . |
| 11 | For them to sign off price correct , they have got to have had a look at the measure . |
| 12 | If they had time to have had a look er , if someone could , could take the part of Maria . |
| 13 | His parents published a collection of his letters in 1919 , The Letters of Charles Sorley , which the Manchester Guardian thought ‘ contained the first mature impressions of a nature which was all vigour and radiance , a boy who may be said to have had a genius for truth ’ . |
| 14 | Immediately before this crucial engagement , Constantine is said to have had a vision — later reinforced by a prophetic dream — of a luminous cross suspended in the sky . |
| 15 | Second , according to Adomnan'ś Life of Columba , Oswald is said , reputedly on his own testimony , to have had a vision of St Columba on the eve of the battle of ‘ Heavenfield ’ , and as soon as he was established as king he sent a request to Columba 's monastic foundation on Iona among the Dalriadic Scots for a bishop , receiving in due course Aidan ( HE 111 , 3 ) . |
| 16 | He beatified Juan Diego , an Indian believed to have had a vision of the Virgin Mary in 1531 , denounced abortion and the use of contraceptives , and visited those southern and central states where protestant evangelism had made significant inroads over the previous 20 years . |
| 17 | If the source of ivory was elephant ( MacGregor 1985 ) , Indian or African , a larger number might be expected in Kent which appears to have had a dominance over many of the goods imported from the Continent and Mediterranean . |
| 18 | The campanile was the first in the city to have a clock that struck the hours ( although that of the church of Sant' Eustorgio was the first to have had a clock , in 1306 ) In its lower part the campanile is square , but it soon becomes octagonal , rising in elegant brickwork tiers separated by delicate friezes . |
| 19 | It is not thought to have had a stake in the video . |
| 20 | William Grindcob at St Albans and Geoffrey Litster in East Norfolk were local leaders as able and articulate as Tyler in Kent and London , and all seem to have had a capacity to maintain discipline . |
| 21 | She is believed to have had a heart attack at Dingle Bay , Co Kerry . |
| 22 | Jambo , 32 , is thought to have had a heart attack . |
| 23 | A CORONER has said he was not prepared to accept some key evidence from a woman alleged to have had a love affair with Constable Allen Moore . |
| 24 | Looking at my arms I could see that the mosquitoes appeared to have had a field day . |
| 25 | The Golden Lion is said to have had a gallery but nothing now remains , though it has been referred to by word of mouth over many years . |
| 26 | I think I was very lucky to have had a year in school , and therefore to know that ‘ real ’ teaching was not like School Practice . |
| 27 | If he seems to have had a foot in the door for an awfully long time then that is probably because he made his debut as an 18–year-old during the Dermot Reeve era . |
| 28 | The couple were mown down yards from their home by a car driven by 47-year-old Jill Gunns , who is believed to have had a row with her boy-friend . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't mind if the lads have a laugh at my expense , that 's all part of the dressing-room banter , but it does upset me that I 'm supposed to have had a row with the manager . |
| 30 | I do n't seem to have had a choice . |