Example sentences of "[pers pn] had have a " in BNC.

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1 I recently lost three stone in weight and wondered how else I could improve myself and I was lucky in that I had had a mastectomy for a cancer about seven years ago , so I went ahead and had breast reconstruction .
2 you , er , it had happened because I had been , I had had a lot of training and a lot of swindles and thing , I was able to talked to him and I talked to him for an hour and a half er , I was curious for one thing to find out why he was , he , he was breaking into people 's houses , so that the fact that he was doing it for , to , to get money for drugs
3 In rationalising the corporation and giving it the equipment that would allow it to compete with rivals , particularly foreign rivals , I had to have a capital programme .
4 After this build-up , I had to have a go .
5 I had agreed to this in case I had to have a Caesarian .
6 I had to have a cast on it and I could n't play guitar at all in any fashion .
7 They swarmed in and I had to have a cup that did n't match the saucer .
8 I 'd put them all in an old suitcase and erm , cos I could n't just put them in there I had to have a look , they 're sentimental and that book was in there so I can definitely get you that , but I would n't go up in the loft I 'm afraid , I 'm so scared of creepy crawlies so er , you know , if you , if you want to come back some time when my husband 's here I mean he can tell you more about the wallpaper and decorating , and I 'll get him to get that out .
9 I had to have a tracheostomy operation , and from then on I needed twenty-four-hour nursing care .
10 I had to have a tracheostomy operation that removed my voice .
11 In the end I had to have a go !
12 I had decided that I had to have a partial confidant at the school .
13 It was n't until I had to have a full medical two years later that I found I 'd got hookworm .
14 I had to have a talk with Mrs Rumney and a few days later I called in at The Laurels .
15 Ken said , ‘ I had to have a new banjo .
16 to be with my friends although they let me sit with me friends so they 're good really so I 'm hoping that I should be able to get back on a Wednesday because er , that 's the only day really I can go , I go to Barn Mead on a Thursday as a rule you see , but yesterday I had to have a day off to go out , I had an invite out
17 so I mean she 's , she 's she 's and I said to her when when all the things were going wrong with I had to have a lot of chats with her and said well you you 've got to prove that you can rebound from this
18 In Mermaids , for instance , I had to have a Boston accent . ’
19 In Mermaids , for instance , I had to have a Boston accent . ’
20 I had to have a lie-down .
21 And course we 're doing a lot of counting today this wrist is a you know I do n't mind that you see what did that wrist was that elbow I had to have a second operation on it , in the arm up here because er I had to have some bone taken away in the elbow course it stretched guiders but they also erm disturbed the wrist joint because it was in plaster like that stretched round and disturbed the wrist joint and I ke it 's it weakened it and it 's only just it 's only just this what last nine months that it 's that it 's really started to effect this but I know what it is that 's because I keep going out doing the odd jobs
22 I had to have a bit because when I put the blackcurrant in there was n't enough so I had to mix it up with .
23 Cos I thought I had to have a tetanus , and she goes , oh you do n't need it .
24 Much taken aback , not least because Amy and I had had a number of conversations about her low opinion of the Church and what it stood for , I asked how she knew it was Jesus .
25 For some years I had had a similar experience in the teaching of literature , amazed to see colleagues attempting to hound students , in the context of a two- or three-year course , through complex texts in a single session : today we read King Lear , tomorrow we discuss it , and next day you write your essays on it .
26 The dread excitement of D-Day came , and I longed to be at Bletchley where I felt I had had a rôle .
27 Recalling a time when I had had a staff of seventeen under me , and knowing how not so long ago a staff of twenty-eight had been employed here at Darlington Hall , the idea of devising a staff plan by which the same house would be run on a staff of four seemed , to say the least , daunting .
28 At one point , the German countess emerged from the midst of the gentlemen and before I had had a chance to serve her , began helping herself to some port from my tray .
29 After nine months of tests , I was told that there was ‘ probably ’ nothing wrong with my kidneys and that I had had a bladder infection .
30 I had had a whole afternoon spent upon me , been the centre of attention , cost the State a fortune and my wife had given up a whole day of precious work to be with me .
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