Example sentences of "have have a [noun] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.

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1 I feel I would have had a chance of breaking my North West ‘ duck ’ .
2 They may have had a function in aiding the picking out of broken threads on the loom .
3 That someone who had nothing at all to do with her life should have had a hand in removing her father 's last trace in her life infuriated her .
4 It was built before the war , and I have a Shanks loo , which makes me think that the British must have had a hand in building it .
5 He was a friend of President Kennedy 's and he wrote a rather fulsome biography Marilyn Monroe , and in his most recent novel he allows the suspicion — just the suspicion — that Jack may have had a hand in killing Marilyn , and that the CIA may have winked at the killing of Jack .
6 Active swimmers in the surface waters of the present oceans are likely to feed directly on the plankton , and the trilobites may have had a method of harvesting large quantities of minute food .
7 You will have had a bath before going along to the morning service of Chiropody , so the problem will not arise .
8 Edward was clearly , and not surprisingly , of considerable interest in Normandy at this date , and William of Jumièges would have had a motive for inventing Robert 's expedition against England , to increase Edward 's debt to the Normans in general and William 's father in particular .
9 He continued to stare at the ground as she added , ‘ I 'm just wondering who might have had a motive for killing him . ’
10 ‘ It occurred to me , ’ Sybil continued as she waved Melissa to a chair , ‘ that … that person might have had a motive for killing Angy . ’
11 Yet when he came to write the chapters on earthquakes and volcanos in Madam How and Lady Why ( 1869 ) , he could not dismiss from his mind the notion that , underlying the scientific explanation of how these disasters occurred , God must have had a reason for permitting them .
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