Example sentences of "had [verb] to have [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had expected to have a little chat with his boy , but the headmaster had explained that he had been put to bed early because he had an important French test the next day . |
| 2 | Committed to the cult of the workers as ‘ disinterested ’ opponents of militarism , they generally remained silent about the degree to which workers themselves had come to have a vested interest in the arms race . |
| 3 | " English " , then , by the first decade of the new century , had come to have a multi-faceted character due to its variation of role within the new provincial colleges , Oxbridge , and the national system of schooling . |
| 4 | Seven other individuals , not related to his family , who had come to have a high regard for Beattie over the years among them were three or four Roman Catholics , including a man whom he had helped to find a new house after he and his wife had been intimidated out of their home by the Provisional IRA . |
| 5 | Opposition deputies had sought to have the minimum voting age lowered to 18 and all of them left the chamber in protest prior to the vote . |
| 6 | By 1956 , when Cocteau was a man in his sixties , he had grown to have an uncanny resemblance to the painting . |
| 7 | It was as though the wind and tide had decided to have a good rest having expended all its fury achieving the high water mark . |
| 8 | They had agreed to have a final drink after Duncan had unpacked . |
| 9 | Her idea had been rather startling , even silly , but she had wanted to have a black crepe dress and bangles and a tent , and to tell fortunes . |
| 10 | My parents had hoped to have a large family , but when I was born Mamma needed a Caesarean section . |
| 11 | One Saturday morning she had waited for an hour and a half outside the dentist 's where he had gone to have a troublesome tooth fixed . |