Example sentences of "[verb] had [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Use this where your employee is leaving and has had at least four days ' SSP in the last eight weeks of the contract . |
| 2 | She confided afterwards that it was the first sexual contact she 'd had in over five years . |
| 3 | Rangers should have had at least one goal . |
| 4 | After four and a quarter years , some firms will already have had at least two visits and many in category 1 will be facing a second visit in the near future . |
| 5 | Speed could have had at least 3 goals , and Deane could have had 3 . |
| 6 | And I expect if your father had n't died she 'd have had at least twenty children ! |
| 7 | For men , the biggest threat was to their shirts , with over a third claiming to have had at least one ruined . |
| 8 | This time I 've got no crazy , pointless altruism restraining me , and you must long since have discarded whatever distorted idealism made you believe you had to be faithful to Jones in fact and thought , since you claim to have had at least one other relationship between your spells with him . |
| 9 | Otherwise judges are appointed from the ranks of barristers of at least ten or fifteen years ' standing and are likely to have had at least twenty years ' practice at the bar . |
| 10 | Being able to say these difficult , and intensely private things to her mother before the funeral was the trigger she wanted to be able to grieve genuinely and begin to feel the loss of her mother , rather than nurse the resentment she had had for so many years . |
| 11 | Thirty-six of the unemployed ( 62 per cent ) had never worked since leaving school , while the rest had had at least one job during that time , but had subsequently become unemployed . |
| 12 | And people stressing a cost factor as important were relatively likely to say they had had at least some choice between different credit arrangements , whereas people stressing convenience were relatively likely to say there had been only one possibility ( though differences were small ) . |
| 13 | The friends that I 've had for over 20 years are ones I can rely on and who do n't ‘ take ’ all the time . |
| 14 | Yes thank you Chairman erm I think important question very similar question I think we 're we 're all wondering whether the changed landscape of West Sussex , the changed use of West Sussex has had any influence on the flooding and as the County Council has pointed out worst amount of rain we 've had for about seventy years or so I think it 's very useful and important er to ask questions an and when this crisis is over we reflect on what we can learn from it , but I must bear in mind that it is first and foremost extraordinary climatic conditions which have caused these problems and that in itself of course might have implications erm the whole of global warming does tend to come to mind when you see what 's happening in Australia as well as what 's happening here erm that 's certainly not anything that agencies great or small can have any control over . |
| 15 | We 've got a bottle of apricot wine what we 've had for about twelve years . |
| 16 | ‘ I have two American Standard Strats that I 've had for about four years , one with Lace Sensors , the other with DiMarzios . |
| 17 | ‘ On some sites I 've had at least four promises since May that work will be carried out . |
| 18 | We 've had at least two sackfuls in under a week , and we 've done follow-ups on the strength of a lot less than that . ’ |
| 19 | We 've had at least two opportunities in the past two years for reorganising our own structure . |
| 20 | And I 've had at least three real girlfriends , so there must be more to me than bad skin , frizzy hair and a slouch . |
| 21 | So far I have been very fortunate and have had at least one painting accepted each time I have tried . |