Example sentences of "that [pers pn] have have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I remind the House that we have had a debate on rights , freedoms and responsibilities for many years . |
| 32 | Brand told me that they 'd been friendly from way back and when I leaned on him a bit he admitted that they 'd had a thing going but it had been broken off two or three years ago . ’ |
| 33 | It was frequently said of great men in the ancient world , for example of Plato , that they had had a god for a father and a human mother . |
| 34 | He was taken to the city 's main hospital where it was confirmed that he 'd had a heart attack . |
| 35 | And then she read , in a copy of The Stage that happened to be turned in her direction , a paragraph about him which made it clear that the wife whom he was talking about in this present tense had died a year ago , and that he had had a row of flops in London . |
| 36 | He discovered that Bob was twenty-five , four years his junior , and realised that it was the first time since his brother Joe 's marriage , when they were seventeen and twenty , that he had had a companion of roughly his own age . |
| 37 | Minton replied that he had had a girl the night before . |
| 38 | He then went on to say that he had had a complaint from the men in the next room , that I was using what he could only describe as ‘ a female sex aid device ’ for long periods at night and first thing in the morning . |
| 39 | And , checking back , the Sounds review of the time ( in which journalist Rab claims that he 's had a tape since November 1980 ) provided the release with a five star rating , while NME was mildly less enthusiastic , observing that ‘ it 's an odd LP , naturally flawed and imperfect and rather stilted in places but nonetheless a worthy attempt at indisciplinary entertainment . ’ |
| 40 | At one point , Walter tries to convince his wife that he has had a story accepted by BBC Radio . |
| 41 | Almost anybody who is offered an honour of some kind indicates that he has had a period of anxious , nay tortured reflection , but somehow inexorably arrives at the conclusion that duty demands — duty to his family , his wife , his children , his bank manager — that he should accept the honour . |
| 42 | Merson is controlling his diet and craving for fast-food in a bid to lose a few pounds excess weight , but spoke out yesterday to nail the lies that he has had a bust-up with George Graham over the battle of the bulge . |