Example sentences of "had an " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of that would of course be comprehensible to Moss and McGrindle , he wrote , to Pizzetti and Baiocchi , to Goldman and Goldstein , though Goldberg , to his credit , has had an inkling , has to some extent faced the thought that he might be wasting his whole life , for that 's what it comes down to in the end , he wrote , wasting a whole life when something useful might have been salvaged , something valuable perhaps , it is the refusal of those alternatives that occasionally makes one shiver . |
| 2 | Both these establishments seem to have had an architectural form very similar to the ordinary domestic buildings of their area , and the hall provided the communal eating and drinking space . |
| 3 | Then as soon as the last act goes up Bobby will ring for a doctor and say that Bunty 's had an accident . |
| 4 | Henry Tyler had had an unexpected few days ' leave and had descended on his married sister and her husband in the small market town of Berebury in Calleshire without a great deal of warning . |
| 5 | Your Occupational Therapist will have written to the Environmental Health Officer to support your application and you will have had an initial test of resources . |
| 6 | By now , they should have had an outline to present to the sponsors . |
| 7 | REMARKS AND RECOMMENDATIONS : Lenny has had an excellent summer . |
| 8 | But it was the Greek islands on which his attention was finally fastened , notably Hydra ( Ydra ) in the Saronic Gulf , which had had an artistic community on it for some years . |
| 9 | ‘ You should have had an early night , ’ she commented . |
| 10 | These regular outbursts have inevitably had an effect beyond that intended . |
| 11 | It was then we lost our guide , who was called to help a Bulgarian who 'd had an accident . |
| 12 | I argued in an earlier section of this Chapter that questions of value have always had an uncertain place in institutional literary study , and Catherine Belsey explicitly seeks to banish them . |
| 13 | It is true that we are more enlightened than we were ; there is a public which has learnt to smile at the reviewer who declares that a line ‘ will not scan ’ , or that it contains a ‘ trochee ’ where it should have had an ‘ iamb ’ , without considering whether it was ever intended to ‘ scan ’ , or whether there is anything in English verse which can be treated as the absolute equivalent of a Greek or Latin trochee . |
| 14 | They say drug-abusing mothers who would previously have had an abortion are bearing sickly babies with low chances of survival . |
| 15 | If Dennis can maintain parity in the midst of such vested interest , then the credit really should rest with McLaren International rather than the drivers , neither of whom has had an entirely blemish-free season . |
| 16 | It 's something I 've always had an affection for . |
| 17 | Too often the leadership 's victories over the left have had an unsavoury , pyrrhic quality . |
| 18 | Mr Shute has had an impressive track record with BM , which he was appointed to when it was controlled by Beazer and which has thrived while Beazer 's fortunes wained until Beazer severed the connections earlier this year . |
| 19 | I was banned , however , not because I am a convicted criminal , I think — like the unfortunate Simon Hayward — but because I wanted to wear a false nose out of consideration for the feeling of my associate , Mark Chapman , who , as I explained last week , has just had an inch and a half lopped off his . |
| 20 | So if a man who has had an adolescent incestuous relationship with his mother now feels guilty about having close relationships with women , he is told that there is nothing wrong in loving women . |
| 21 | She might have had an unknown liver defect or the symptoms were induced by the drug . |
| 22 | The preference is for things so young — like baby chickens with infant vegetables — that they have barely had an independent existence we might have to acknowledge robbing them of . |
| 23 | These are usually temporary measures which can be obtained quite swiftly and will involve the court directing the developer not to carry out the development until the court has had an opportunity to consider the dispute in detail . |
| 24 | That Shelford has a few doubters to disprove is cold comfort to Cardiff , who have had an unconvincing start to the season and whose main hope is to catch the tourists either cold or rusty after a lay-off which for most has lasted all of a fortnight . |
| 25 | I 've nearly had an accident there myself rushing to get to work on earlies . |
| 26 | Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he had n't had an audience , and lines to speak ? |
| 27 | So one set out with a policy of having good human relations and my friendship with Marcus Sieff ( now president of Marks $ Spencer ) dating back to 1953 has also had an influence . |
| 28 | for example , BBC Television on the evening of the 11 July Day of Action , and the papers next morning , were full of pictures of injured policemen , but the pickets who were injured were hardly mentioned , although among them was a man who had had an epileptic fit , a woman who had collapsed at the rear entrance to the factory and two Yorkshire miners who had to be carried away by their friends . |
| 29 | It 's the first time Bentley has had an all-new shape to itself for almost two generations — since 1952 , in fact , when the first of the R-type Continentals was launched in limited numbers and initially for export only . |
| 30 | Have you always had an ambition to act ? |