Example sentences of "have have quite a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ people who knew him very well must have had quite a hard time with him , he was so depressed . |
2 | 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 ) |
3 | For Anna , pregnant at eighteen ) her stretch marks had had quite a devastating effect on her by the time she was eight months pregnant . |
4 | but they 've had quite a good dinnertime today so I think they 're letting her stop a bit longer . |
5 | We 've had quite a busy afternoon , Mr Andropulos , and at the moment we 're anchored over a plane that crashed into the sea just about the time we were receiving your SOS . ’ |
6 | It 's quite interesting that where you think you 've you 've rung say , Freda or Amber in the evening and you 've had quite a lengthy conversation in , mentally you think that |
7 | Alan Hansen , of Ipswich Port Authority , said : ‘ We have had quite a severe downturn in our business at the West Bank terminal . |