Example sentences of "[vb past] have some [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Perhaps he ceased to be useful to her once she 'd had some success in England — I do n't know . |
2 | I 'd had some sailing instruction before on Lake Bala , in a larger Wayfarer which has room for two people and an instructor , but I found that I was tending to leave the thinking to my partner and the instructor , and just doing what I was told without knowing why . |
3 | She 'd had some tomatoes and er she never washes them all she do n't do that |
4 | She 'd had some requests made of her in her time but none seemingly as outrageous as this . |
5 | If I 'd had some castanets I 'd have clicked them in his face . |
6 | Never one to wallow in self-pity , he 'd started by mugging a couple of Indian kids in bright shirts behind the bus station and then he 'd followed a Yuppie type from his bank 's Cashcard machine to the stairway of a multi-storey car park , where they 'd had some dealings involving a Rolex and all the wad in the Yuppie 's wallet . |
7 | And I remember one year , we 'd had some Webbs Curly lettuce and I was We had a good crop and I remember one lady who stayed in and she come used to come Well practically every other days for six of these . |
8 | ‘ IT WOULD HAVE all been easier , Daddy , ’ said Juliet , ‘ if you 'd had some sort of regular job . |
9 | She made an effort to feel some true sympathy , but it was difficult — she supposed that she would n't be able to experience compassion in a deep and real sense until she 'd had some children , since only matters like the putting down of young greyhounds brought tears to her eyes . |
10 | Luckily I 'd had some speed earlier : when I was on blues I could get through anything . |
11 | And we 'd had some pearls I said , I said I do n't remember buying you that , she said oh yes , she said you |
12 | He could handle the fast rise now , although he 'd had some trouble along the way . |
13 | Mind you , Richard Hannay in John Buchan 's The Thirty-Nine Steps planned his route because people were trying both to kill him and lock him up , and he still seemed to have some fun . |
14 | Both she and Lucy seemed to have some kind of thing for breasts . |
15 | He seemed to have some fellow-feeling with its weariness . |
16 | He had cleared the small , fetid room , in which five persons lived , of everyone but the girl 's grandmother , who seemed to have some idea of how to help him — the girl 's mother was a defeated , apathetic creature only just over thirty herself . |
17 | He had joined the Institute in his first year at the Establishment because at that time the organisation seemed to have some sinew to it . |
18 | Although the pharmacist seemed to have some trouble deciphering the prescription , and Henry had to go through a nerve-wracking pantomime of ignorance about the nature of the chemicals he required , it was n't long before he was standing once again on the doorstep of 54 Maple Drive . |
19 | ‘ You seemed to have some trouble with that mattress downstairs , ’ the housekeeper remarked . |
20 | The unit seemed to have some effect . |
21 | At last the ‘ special relationship ’ seemed to have some meaning , perhaps for the first time since the days of Macmillan . |
22 | She was quite good with delinquent adolescents partly because she seemed to have some insight into the impulse that makes the young and the violent turn on the weak and the defenceless … |
23 | The situation appears to be similar in UK public libraries , where a survey by Capital planning Information found that one-third of 32 library authorities surveyed had some form of selection policy . |
24 | Mrs Allen was taught which foods contained protein and vitamins and encouraged to have some form of protein with each meal , as well as fruit and vegetables , at least once daily . |
25 | Apparently during the First World War some professor erm was using a bunsen burner and he burned himself quite badly and by him he just happ he just happened to have some lavender oil essential and for the nearest thing he put his hand in there and apparently it was supposed to have calmed it down and it healed very quickly . |
26 | The words ‘ While on active service ’ began to have some meaning . |
27 | so embedded now in English cricket folklore : the lost teeth at Taunton in '74 when Andy Roberts bounced him ( ‘ my first big break ’ ) , his dark months of Test captaincy , Headingley '81 , when he decided to have some fun and whacked 149 not out ( ‘ soon the depression lifted ’ ) , Hollywood ( ‘ nice little diversion ’ ) , the accusations of misbehaviour off the field ( ‘ ridiculous ’ , ‘ farcical ’ , ‘ part of the learning process ’ ) , thoughts on the World Cup ( ‘ Pakistan were lucky to get to the final ’ ) , the Somerset break-up . |
28 | which you decided had some prospects of being reclaimed . |
29 | I think he went to have some tea . ’ |
30 | She mentioned that she kept had some Ercol furniture . |