Example sentences of "[pron] have had [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 There 's been , everyone has had seven cards and that 's not one of them .
2 ‘ No , ’ she replied , ‘ if I 'd had black parents to go home to , they would have been on the receiving end of aggro all day long as well . ’
3 I mean really I er it shook me because I was extremely naive , I 'd had two children but I was very very naive in those days .
4 I 'd had that years , it really bugged me .
5 But if I 'd had eight months of thinking , I do n't think I could have taken it .
6 So when my cousin rang to ask ‘ which machine ’ , I said I 'd had good results and so on .
7 I wish I 'd had fewer children — if I 'd known the way prices would go up …
8 John Lee Hooker : ‘ Woke up this mornin' , found I 'd had 43 years of chart activity … ’
9 I 'm supposed to be resting , but after I 'd had forty winks , I felt a lot better , so I toddled over here .
10 If I 'd had some castanets I 'd have clicked them in his face .
11 And if I 'd had any problems , he sorted them out .
12 If I 'd had any doubts about your competence you can be sure I would n't have left you to cope here . ’
13 ‘ If I 'd had three boys I could have fitted them into the same bedrooms . ’
14 It was obvious from the moment she came into the house that Dawn , as I 'd immediately christened her ( after all , I 'd had three weeks to dream up the name ) , was a real character .
15 ‘ Neither am I , querida , ’ he said slowly , ‘ but I wish that I 'd had those skills in Seville because it would have saved a lot of anguish .
16 I 'd had twenty-five years of booze and using other recreational substances .
17 I also made documentaries on the battleships Bismarck and Tirpitz , with both of which , as the reader may recall , I had had distant brushes , and the battlecruiser or fast battleship Scharnhorst which had sunk my father 's Rawalpindi .
18 At that time I was turning it out with some facility , and I had had two poems published in The Isis in my first year .
19 I had had many tests .
20 Mark : I never fantasized about particular sexual activities until after I had had sexual activities .
21 I had had those moments myself , so I could appreciate them , ’ says Ray .
22 The most admirable part of the whole affair was the undeviating loyalty of his wife , Valerie Hobson , with whom I had had some encounters previously , when she was married to Anthony Havelock-Allan .
23 My second favourite place at the zoo was the Reptile House , and I 've had various sorts of reptiles as pets .
24 I 've had good Christmases since but it 's a feeling I can not shed .
25 For what 's is worth , as a motorist , I may tell you I 'm thirty years standing , and I explained to the people when I phoned your office up , I 've had thirty years standing as a driver , I check my oil , I check my water , I lost no compression , no water .
26 It took 2 years to put it in place but I 've had 26 birds on the place .
27 I 've had odd holidays with friends and my parents but this is the first time I 've actually sort of lived in the country .
28 I 've had terrible dreams these past few nights , you know .
29 I 'VE HAD TERRIBLE TIMES in many of the world 's beauty spots : angst-ridden in Anguilla , miserable as sin in Mexico , suicidal in Sicily , bored out of my brains in Barcelona .
30 Oh it is now yes , you 've got , I mean you 've got the service now have n't you and erm , but I like at St Margaret 's hospital I 'd been , I had been , I went in there to have my last boy , but they 're very , very good there they were , I 've not been in , I 've been in , I 've had treatment here for my hip and that up at Harlow but they would n't do the operation because of my blood clotting you see , so therefore I 've got to grin and bear it , I 've had eight years of it , I could n't walk for six months , but now I struggle and get around as I say with a couple of sticks I get round
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