Example sentences of "have have [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has had over a dozen matches and scored only two goals , so perhaps as Joo said its time for the subs bench ( remember Le Tissier on sunday ) . |
| 2 | Bush stated that the USA had assumed the " burden of leadership " in confronting the aggression of Iraq , because " among the nations of the world , only the United States of America has had both the moral standing and the means to back it up " . |
| 3 | The country that has demonstrated the greatest upward mobility through entrepreneurial channels is Argentina , which was one of the first to industrialise and has had probably the greatest influx of immigrants . |
| 4 | Thanks to the vagaries of international politics , Ethiopia has had only a tiny slice of this aid cake . |
| 5 | Although Adrian is the Olympic champion , we both held the world record and Adrian has had perhaps a four year head start on myself . |
| 6 | ‘ So my Berlioz connection was founded on love , but fate has had almost an equal hand in it . ’ |
| 7 | The kind of boat fishing at sea that I 've always done has had quite a few fathoms below the boat , but here the water was clear and only a few feet deep , we were certainly less than one hundred yards offshore . |
| 8 | Er but I used to tell people and they you know people near me that had a lot of children and er they 'd moan and groan about it , I heard one woman say erm , she 'd had quite a few children and I I 'd been in hospital and I said er , er a certain person that 'd had a baby had lost it . |
| 9 | If she 'd had only the clerical level of interface that she was supposed to have , she 'd never have found it . |
| 10 | having had rather a nasty shock when I had the car serviced the other day . |
| 11 | Why could n't she have had just a small taste of the honeyed delight that Rourke 's love would have brought , just a fragment of the glowing ember that would have warmed her inside , instead of this cold , bitter emptiness ? |
| 12 | ‘ people who knew him very well must have had quite a hard time with him , he was so depressed . |
| 13 | Mr le Gros , who sang a serenade filled with double entendres to his fickle mistress in the Ballet des plaisirs , must have had quite a high voice since he was normally assigned parts notated in either alto clef ( C3 , the usual clef for the high tenor voice known as the haute-contre ) |
| 14 | This means that the initial state of the universe would have to have had exactly the same temperature everywhere in order to account for the fact that the microwave background has the same temperature in every direction we look . |
| 15 | The tablets did n't seem to have had even the slightest effect . |
| 16 | The relaxation of advertising regulations , initially in 1979–80 , and more fully in 1987 , seems to have had only a limited impact on the profession . |
| 17 | While the Odiham Society has earned and received its fair share of credit , it must be concluded that this modest proposal , so long in incubation , was likely even if put into effect , to have had only a marginal impact on the situation it was meant to remedy — as the society soon realised . |
| 18 | This factor … should make the court the more cautious before holding that the defendant had had both a factual possession and animus possidendi sufficient to confer on him a possessory title … |
| 19 | Dave had had just the right amount of drink , he had n't been tempted to display his superior knowledge in argument ; he had n't produced any slanderous gossip , he had n't felt it necessary to demonstrate his virility by being overattentive to someone else 's wife . |
| 20 | After his death Margaret had had only a widowed mother 's pension to support Dickie and herself . |
| 21 | At the meeting re-convened to pass the accounts , the members were given a thorough , and far-reaching report , which included the recommendation to spend ‘ less excessively ’ on the clubhouse , but more on the course , and to raise the wages of some staff who had had only a meagre 15s. 0d. a week for years . |
| 22 | Hayling 's dummy had been a marathon performance over months , whilst Sutton had had only a short time and few people . |
| 23 | For Anna , pregnant at eighteen ) her stretch marks had had quite a devastating effect on her by the time she was eight months pregnant . |
| 24 | They 're beautiful if you 're walking across the Downs and admiring the trees or the open countryside , but erm there are times , and we 've had just a recent spell with easterly winds , and we find with an easterly wind along the south coast , because of the Downs , and because of the , the Dover Straits , these easterly winds tend to erm funnel , as we call it , and therefore they are stronger than they would normally be expected to be , so Brighton does have its disadvantages in , from that point of view , but from the sunshine and the general point of view erm it takes a lot to beat the area . |
| 25 | I 've had rather a surprising piece of news , that 's all . ’ |
| 26 | I 've had rather a hard day — well , I 'm sure you can imagine . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I understand you 've had only a boiled egg this morning , ’ she said meaningfully , then returning her attention to the maid , ordered , ‘ Make that tea for two , Margaret . |
| 28 | ‘ We 've had precisely the same argument in Kampur and in Bombay , in Delhi and in Madras . |
| 29 | You 've had about a hundred people come to you , are you looking for damages ? |
| 30 | but they 've had quite a good dinnertime today so I think they 're letting her stop a bit longer . |