Example sentences of "[verb] had [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope that the panel will feel that it has had as a result of the position statements before it , and the discussions over the last few days , sufficient information to decide whether to exclude certain sectors . |
| 2 | Jamie was in the middle of a story about a disagreement he 'd had with a master at his school over the A-level English syllabus when the phone rang . |
| 3 | His mother had shown him lots of things , photographs and even odds and ends she 'd had as a child , but she 'd never shown him her wedding-dress . |
| 4 | It was pink , one he 'd had from a baby . |
| 5 | Where once you would have had as a matter of necessity a plot with at its heart some intricate deception , often unlikely , now your plot will arise from the characters you want to write about . |
| 6 | If only I 'd gone along with the doctor 's proposals , it would have been over by now — completely and painlessly over , and any feelings of guilt I might have had as a result I would surely have dealt with ages ago . |
| 7 | ‘ You know who we should have had as a father , Annie . |
| 8 | He told me of one case he had had of a woman in her early twenties . |
| 9 | Felix pondered a bad time that Stephen had had with a girl a while ago , and fiddled with his shortwave radio . |
| 10 | He told Took about a consultation he had had with a doctor , who told him : ‘ What you ought to do is to get yourself a retired petty officer to look after you . ’ |
| 11 | It was a habit he had had as a child . |
| 12 | It was the feeling she had had as a child when she frightened herself with a detective story . |
| 13 | He was wearing winceyette pyjamas like those he had had as a child . |
| 14 | that we 've had for a while . |
| 15 | Er , it 's a wee problem I 've had for a say about a year now . |
| 16 | I 've been here for years and this is the first conversation I 've had with a human for simply ages . |
| 17 | ‘ Working with Soul II Soul is definitely to this point the most rewarding experience I 've had as an artist and as a person ’ |
| 18 | before I go to bed , you know , for the past week we 've had like an hour 's discussion , totally nothing ! |
| 19 | We actively encourage them to take on tasks out with the role of resident to give them some leaning to their life , to give them some creativeness to actively tap some of the skills they have had as a housewife or when they were out in the community . |
| 20 | His father Allan told the High Court : ‘ Whatever differences we have had as a family we are all of a mind that we would like what is best for Tony . |
| 21 | The strongest indication we have had of an MBO here has been no more than vague rumours . ’ |
| 22 | The nearest that we have had to a declaration so far is an off-the-cuff remark to journalists in Harare last week , when the Prime Minister said : ’ There are eight months to go . ’ |
| 23 | More important than all the pats on the back she 's had as a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company . |