Example sentences of "[vb past] have the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his mother went to the police and tried to have the old custody order enforced . |
| 2 | After Kristallnacht he forbade further attacks on Jews and tried to have the worst ringleaders punished by the courts . |
| 3 | Mr Doran had moved his wife 's cake to the first position , and Mr Clancy had moved it back to the middle , saying the first cake tasted had the best chance , and his wife 's cake would be first as it had got there first . |
| 4 | We have all wished that we 'd had the perfect retort at some time , but most of us can only think of something smart about three days later . |
| 5 | ‘ She 'd had the odd little — well , not affair , exactly , but romance . |
| 6 | We 'd had the odd fling even while she was supposed to be engaged to him — the night of the fire was when we started it . |
| 7 | ‘ From now on , that charge will be mine , ’ he 'd had the utter nerve to tell her . |
| 8 | With the hassle , I somehow missed out on the pudding , but G assured me he 'd had the usual number of five . |
| 9 | True , I 'd had the occasional setback , like proposing to Tony Kessler when I was four . |
| 10 | Earlier , I 'd had the good fortune to place my left ear point-blank to old Gavel Basher 's larynx as he asked everyone in a 20-mile radius ( or so it seemed ) to be seated . |
| 11 | They were descendants of Iapyx , a son of the great Daedalus 's , who 'd had the good sense not to fly . |
| 12 | ‘ I then waited to become pregnant until I 'd had the first two transfusions , ’ she says . |
| 13 | Because I 'd had the grand advice from my grandma . |
| 14 | He says that he was told his father was alive after the first crash … by the time he 'd had the second crash in the rescue boat he was dead . |
| 15 | I 'd had the big three — fag , belt , Aspro — and was feeling much better inside the Bible-bunk . |
| 16 | We thought we 'd had the last laugh when we got to the play-off finals against Charlton but he was an even bigger pain in the arse after that . |
| 17 | I kept making the point on Saturday here at Lane Martin , that I did n't think that erm we 'd had the last of the goals as they kept er popping in at both ends , and I 'm sure though we 've had three with a little over half an hour played here , we have n't seen the last of the goals here either . |
| 18 | I wished he 'd had the same confidence in front of audiences because he was probably the most talented actor of us all . |
| 19 | The change in net debt , er worth referring worth mentioning minus three point three million that much worse would have been significantly lower thirty five million or so lower if we 'd had the same year end exchange rate as we did in nineteen ninety one . |
| 20 | Sally confesses : ‘ We realized , after we 'd had the dividing wall rebuilt between the front room and the back parlour , that it was impossible to get in or out of the back parlour , since we 'd also had the doorway closed off and made into a display case for the tortoiseshell medical implements Peter collects . |
| 21 | You know mother 'd used to come back so thrilled with all these slides they 'd had and they 'd had the local doctor as well . |
| 22 | It was the second such operation by the Rangers , believed to have the anti-terrorist Delta force amongst their ranks , and who were apparently sent into the war-torn town to capture Aideed . |
| 23 | It will trace how the city operated the different Housing Acts , how it developed its housing management policy , and how its schemes came to have the distinctive social characteristics which they possess . |
| 24 | Thus the Valencian huerta came to have the highest rural density in Europe : similar conditions produced an equal density in irrigated Murcia . |
| 25 | Barton means literally ‘ barley farm ’ or ‘ corn farm ’ , but later came to have the special meaning of ‘ demesne farm ’ . |
| 26 | Davie always seemed to have the best girls , and none of them seemed to complain . |
| 27 | The Parachute Regiment seemed to have the best time , for it was based in Europe yet each-company spent four months of each year abroad on training attachments . |
| 28 | Instead of her more bellicose approach , the somewhat more neutralist stance of the West Germans loomed larger in NATO , and indeed it was Bonn rather than London that seemed to have the closer relationship with Washington in 1989 . |
| 29 | Apart for his incongruously white hair , Amaldi seemed to have the mental lucidity and expected energy of a man half his age . |
| 30 | He also seemed to have the right physical image to play Ratso . |